Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN a member of a Harlem street gang decides to escape his life of crime by using his DJ skills he receives little support , and the growing tension leads to violence . |
| 2 | As a member of the Historic Rally Car Club he gained 1st place in his class and 11th overall in the series of eight rallies held at Longleat . |
| 3 | Bregawn 's temperament got the better of him the following season , and on his racecourse appearances he displayed increasing sourness . |
| 4 | For the drawing room he printed golden lyres on what has now faded to a gold background , bands of crisp white ivy leaves on brown paper in the study , with dark green stripes on a green background for the dining room . |
| 5 | When interviewed by complaints department officers he made similar allegations about fabrication of admissions . |
| 6 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 7 | As Trade and Industry Secretary he had little trade and little industry to look after , continued the rebuker . |
| 8 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 9 | Back in Isaiah , chapter fifty three th the Old Testament prophet he paints that picture very graphically does n't he ? |
| 10 | A director of a modern dance company , Bill T. Jones , a black American , is continuing the dance company he founded 20 years ago with his companion Arnie Zane , who died of AIDS in 1988 . |
| 11 | The only way into his protective case was through a little trap door he kept locked night and day . |
| 12 | As a forest justice he earned some notoriety . |
| 13 | Under the tarpaulin sheet he had two mattresses and a discarded school seat . |
| 14 | He also knew how to live well by dining at expensive restaurants and going to the theatre , and as the Heritage Secretary he had invaluable contacts in the acting world . |
| 15 | When my father went on an embalming course he saw one fellah eating his sandwiches , reading a book propped against a body . |
| 16 | Because log-normal distributions follow linear trends on the cumulative probability plot he considered each segment to represent a separate sub-population whose character was determined by the dynamics of transport : traction , saltation and suspension . |
| 17 | During his working years he has considerable leisure which is bound to have some interactions with work . |
| 18 | ‘ As well as a £50,000 signing-on fee he wanted two cars and a nanny for his kids , plus his contract money . |
| 19 | In the damp dawn mist he radiated green light , tendrils of luminescence which reached from the points of his body into the canopy , and down to the earth . |
| 20 | Was this sort of fluey thing he had last week ? |
| 21 | In stomach complaints he prefers warm things . |
| 22 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 23 | Following the accession of George I , he seconded a motion of 12 April 1717 that English trade to the Baltic could not be carried on unless the king of Sweden was brought to reason , and during the South Sea crisis he advocated strong measures against the directors . |
| 24 | At Gloucerster Crown Court he admitted two charge of kidnap , but a month ago he escaped from a probation hostel . |
| 25 | Forensic scientist Andrew Hunt told Teesside Crown Court he did extensive tests on blood on Mrs Chandler 's clothes , behind her nails and on nearby rocks . |
| 26 | In the return match at the Basin Reserve he took five wickets in the first innings and scored a handy 42 . |
| 27 | While pursuing his family tree he found two Tyacks amongst those who held land in the Cornish manor of Binnerton , one of whom held the office of manorial reeve . |
| 28 | The Sonata for violin and chamber orchestra is Schnittke 's 1967 orchestration of the First Violin Sonata he composed four years earlier . |
| 29 | In his acceptance speech he made three predictions : ‘ I believe you will see tonight that Britain will have returned strongly to three-party politics again . |