Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flight lieutenant Fraser Boyd does n't like heights ; With that in mind he hopes the final adjustments he 's making in dock in Plymouth will render a return visits unnecessary while half way across the Atlantic . |
| 2 | Mr McNally : ‘ Is it correct that on each and every interview he denied the two charges ? ’ |
| 3 | In effect he adopted the same methods to deal with worsening financial crises over the 1960s . |
| 4 | Cutting across country in the morning light he saw the Japanese transports moored peacefully in Dili harbour . |
| 5 | Through the carved window he saw the wet branches of the evergreens , darker on the dark . |
| 6 | At the bottom he found the three letters CIS and asked what it was . |
| 7 | For a moment he studied the two women , comparing them . |
| 8 | For a surprising moment he forgot the strict rules of his church . |
| 9 | With a small haw he cut the bent ends to fractionally different lengths . |
| 10 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 11 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
| 12 | In his head he saw the hung sheets dotted with coal-smuts torn from their pegs and ripped into bandages as they sailed above the foxgloves . |
| 13 | After a thorough summary of the evidence he reaches the following conclusions : |
| 14 | Last month he reversed the economic reforms he had just introduced and condemned the IMF as ‘ dictatorial ’ , its policies ‘ suicidal ’ . |
| 15 | In the troposphere he emphasised the important reactions of the hydroxyl radical , which he described as the ‘ detergent ’ of the atmosphere because of its pollutant removal capacity , particularly in the tropics . |
| 16 | In his chair he saw the familiar features of the president looking back at him , the face he knew so well from his television set and the newspapers . |
| 17 | His playing is thoughtful and warm , generally responsive to the music 's nature ; and he can turn a phrase charmingly , as with the melancholy ‘ October ’ and in the flexible lines of the central con grazia section of ‘ April ’ ( though at the start he strums the off-beat chords rather casually ) . |
| 18 | By relentless attrition he wore the Dark Elves down . |
| 19 | At the end of the concert he took the four children back to Great Meadow . |
| 20 | As a student he broke the Scottish records for the 100 and 200 yards , and set a new record for the inter-universities 440 yards ( 50.2 seconds ) . |
| 21 | But then President Truman made a big mistake he got the United Nations to authorize another resolution which called for the unification of Korea erm through United Nations intervention and American forces crossed the Yalob |
| 22 | But for his present rejection he blamed the old men of the Conservative party who controlled the professions and the means of political advancement . |
| 23 | Then in a cool voice he dictated the four letters while she tried to keep up with him . |
| 24 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
| 25 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 26 | Using a new set of genuine Thomas Leavy documents based on his legal name change — the last thing he supposed the Federal authorities would be on the lookout for — Coleman then slipped back into the States , via Canada , for what he felt in his bones was probably the last time he would see his father and his country . |
| 27 | Morrice continued that tradition : in the Entring Book he deplored the opposing zealots , the ‘ hierarchists ’ and ‘ fanatics ’ , whilst applauding the ‘ sober churchmen ’ and ‘ old Puritans ’ . |
| 28 | And with dignity he took the two glasses over to the bar . |
| 29 | Believing that death was at hand he confirmed the territorial dispositions made at Montmirail and asked to be buried at the monastery of Grandmont in the Limousin , one of the monks of which had played an important part in the peace negotiations . |
| 30 | In the silence he feels the smooth operations of the mind 's incomparable picture show . |