Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] he [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Lawson , who has restricted his comments on the economy since his resignation four years ago , said : ‘ If the Chancellor is to make significant early inroads into the budget deficit he has no option but to increase tax substantially . ’ |
| 2 | At yesterday 's installation ceremony he told the audience : ‘ I adopted Middlesbrough and it now turns out Middlesbrough has adopted me . ’ |
| 3 | Returning to the living room he killed the light and the images of the previous night , drew the curtains , and threw open the windows and shutters . |
| 4 | When he reached an Underground station he bought a ticket without even thinking of where he might want to go . |
| 5 | Produced in album style he covers the ground in meticulous style . |
| 6 | From his alpaca coat he whipped a medicine bottle of colourless fluid , flourished it significantly at Dr McNab and drank it all off . |
| 7 | And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church . |
| 8 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |
| 9 | In its Easter issue he calls the brat pack ‘ appalling creatures ’ , and has a particular go at David Cameron , a rather cold , in my experience unhelpful , young man who briefed John Major daily during the campaign and has just become special adviser to Norman Lamont . |
| 10 | When he was nine he read Hamlet , no doubt a copy from his father 's bookshop , and , as he told Mrs Thrale later , when he came to the ghost scene he left the kitchen fireside and stood reading at the street door in Lichfield in order to ‘ have people about ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ As a vacuum cleaner salesman he has no sex appeal whatsoever , ’ she said . |
| 12 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 13 | In 1988 , when he was awarded the Seoul Peace Prize he announced the cash award of £180,000 would help establish an Olympic Museum in Lausanne near the committee 's headquarters . |
| 14 | Then , out of his overcoat pocket he produced a safety razor-blade , with which he sharpened the pencil he always used for his often indecipherable , cramped little scribbles — a sign , a psychiatrist later told me , of someone wanting to attract as little attention as possible , as in the case of Robert Walser . |
| 15 | On a rapid return journey he took the catch of the series so far in his right glove while airborne . |
| 16 | At East wood House he found the overflow dripping |
| 17 | In the tracking room he took a seat at the desk and listened while Clarac explained the system . |
| 18 | From the tool case he took the scalpel he had already used to persuade the terrorist . |
| 19 | At eye level he scanned the deck . |
| 20 | Small wonder therefore that as a drama critic he grasped the significance of R. C. Sherriff 's famous play , Journey 's End , in 1929 . |
| 21 | At a press conference held before a walkabout in the town centre he said the insurance industry had increased the premiums on ‘ hot ’ hatchbacks often the target for joyriders . |
| 22 | At the school debating society he won a name ; and he quickly discovered a truth never discovered by some undergraduates nor even by some mature debaters , that you can not speak well unless you care . |
| 23 | David attempted to reassure him , and after he 'd arranged for him to be seen in the casualty department of the local eye unit he asked the factory welfare officer , Louise Raymond , to take him over . |
| 24 | In the time following The Waste Land he saw the world despairingly , in terms of inane , savage horror . |
| 25 | Outside the post office he made no apology for the roughness of his appearance but he was as friendly and charming as he had always been . |
| 26 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
| 27 | There was the cashmere jacket he wore every evening . |
| 28 | He insisted the force keep to their plan , and aboard the leading assault craft he led the flotilla from confusion caused when the carriers , drifting on a current , launched the craft some way from the intended dropping zone . |
| 29 | When Kenneth Baker was Education Minister he opposed the funding of Muslim schools . |
| 30 | CW said that as Staff Welfare Officer he welcomed the proposal . |