Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he saw their mood he made no attempt to join or follow ; and the people , seeing he had not the cut of a government man , passed him by . |
| 2 | He anticipated the later work of Humphry Repton [ q.v. ] by creating flower gardens adjacent to the house , as at Sandon in 1781 , where he laid out a garden under the windows of the drawing-room , planted with flowers and flowering shrubs and with a central basin of water with goldfish . |
| 3 | ‘ The tree in the forest , where he sealed up the dybbuk … ’ |
| 4 | But as he prepared to switch from the more austere environs of the Treasury , where he saw out the final 16 months of the last Tory Government , Mr Mellor spoke of the importance he and the Prime Minister attached to encouraging artistic excellence and preserving the national heritage . |
| 5 | Where he does so the court associate must , at the conclusion of the trial , record that opinion in his certificate so that an appropriate reduction may be considered ( Ord 35 , r 10A ) . |
| 6 | Then , leaving his sobbing family at home , he dashed to a soccer match , where he gave away a penalty and cheated his team of a victory . |
| 7 | He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) . |
| 8 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 9 | Although he had not a prayer against Desert Orchid in the Gold Cup , Norton 's Coin came to Cheltenham with the reputation of being a useful enough horse despite lowly origins . |
| 10 | Mark Hughes slotted in comfortably at centre-back , although he picked up a booking and went close to receiving a red card . |
| 11 | It was from these informants that he pieced together a picture of organised crime as being controlled by key personnel in the police force , local government , business and the legal profession . |
| 12 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 13 | Tories aching for fizz have to accept the meat and two veg reality ; and they may remember that , in the fable , Jupiter grew so tired of the frogs complaining about their uninspiring King Log that he sent down a replacement , King Stork , who ate them all . |
| 14 | It is a penalty if it was not a genuine attempt by the parties to pre-estimate the likely damages but was intended to hang in terror over one party to ensure that he carried out the contract . |
| 15 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
| 16 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 17 | If Philip Leapor 's mother was indeed the woman who died in 1726 , it is reasonable to believe that he took over a house which she had occupied , and leased a separate piece of ground for his nursery . |
| 18 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 19 | It 's a problem that so enraged Martin Cutts of Words at Work that he took up a challenge to rewrite one . |
| 20 | Mr Morrison says that he took on the job ‘ because they said that it would be difficult but it had to be done and that 's what appealed to me ’ . |
| 21 | Mr Marsh was so incensed by the attempted prosecution that he took out a summons to obtain his costs , and yesterday at a brief hearing in the High Court the Attorney General agreed to pay his costs and not to take any further action on the matter . |
| 22 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 23 | After they ordered , Wickham toyed with a table knife and told her that he knew where the ones which had been sent to her and Tavett had come from . |
| 24 | Graham 's devotion to his family has always been such that he drives home every night from Test matches in London rather than stay in the team hotel . |
| 25 | You know , it is only when he came to that final page that he realized where the theme came from , so absorbed was he in the process of composition . |
| 26 | The 16th-century ruins of Knock Castle , 2 miles away , have a murky past — all the sons of the Laird were murdered by a neighbouring Forbes of Strath girnock ; when the Laird was informed he was so overcome by grief that he fell down a staircase to his death . |
| 27 | Roebuck was very interested in Watt 's invention and suggested that he take out a patent for it . |
| 28 | One o'clock in Piazza dei Partigiani after a stressful morning at work was very different from eleven o'clock the night before after making love , but Ellen was bubbling with such enthusiasm that he had n't the heart to voice his reservations . |
| 29 | He knew also that he had n't the right to refuse . |
| 30 | The irrational thought almost occurs that Shakespeare could n't have been that smart if he did n't realise that he had here a performer who can turn sows ' ears into silk purses , and silk purses into live butterflies . |