Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind he has established a small scientific strategic and research programme to look at the analytical programme from a broader perspective . |
| 2 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 3 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 4 | We will be able to provide the equipment he needs to lead a normal life , and we know he 'll want for nothing in the future . ’ |
| 5 | During the war he had adopted a neo-romantic style in his drawings of landscapes , apple trees , houses and labouring figures . |
| 6 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 7 | At this point he decided to follow a mathematical career and soon he had added the senior mathematical scholarship to his list of honours . |
| 8 | Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper . |
| 9 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 10 | However , I argued that we should not suppose that the essentially competitive process he proposed implies a competitive outcome . |
| 11 | ‘ Being Alex the showman he tries to pot a straight yellow one-handed and misses . |
| 12 | Alongside the challenges of the Social Charter and the Community Charge he has to keep a firm grip on the Government 's sponsored schemes . |
| 13 | Well look at this daddy he 's eaten a whole bowlful of it |
| 14 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 15 | One day he arrived to give a new-born filly post-foaling antibiotic and tetanus cover . |
| 16 | In the event he had to have a below-the-knee amputation . |
| 17 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |
| 18 | With his ITV show Through The Keyhole he has given a guided tour of 200 homes of the rich and famous , exposing to public view everything from Viscount Weymouth 's erotic murals to Bernard Manning 's fish tank . |
| 19 | every week he 's got a different sort of format . |
| 20 | He walked her out the doors and down the steps , and kissed her on the cheek as if she were an old maiden aunt he had developed a polite affection for . |
| 21 | As he roams the countryside he learns to distinguish a great variety of birds , animals , insects , trees , grasses , fruits and flowers . |
| 22 | [ I ] n the slums of the manufacturing towns and in the hovels of the countryside he has become a legendary being-the personification of all that thousands of downtrodden men and women hope and dream and desire . |
| 23 | For a start he has to find a receptive female — not always easy with animals as solitary and spread about the forest as orangs . |
| 24 | That morning he had bought a whole barrel of Gunpowder Pepper from one of the human victuallers . |
| 25 | Before the end of the Interregnum he had amassed a modest fortune and had begun styling himself gentleman . |
| 26 | Mind you , I ca n't blame Mary : her husband Darnley was so pitted with the pox he had to drape a white veil over his face . |
| 27 | As a young man he had had a strong desire to visit the United States and decided to go there for a holiday , but as the liner approached New York , he dreamed that his mother ( to whom he was not particularly strongly attached ) was lonely and missed him , and this dream made him terribly homesick . |
| 28 | As each cock jacana establishes his territory he starts to build a simple platform of floating vegetation . |
| 29 | The bus landed him there at seven o'clock on a hazy morning and by lunchtime he 'd found a cheap hotel which was full of Africans in multi-coloured robes which seemed foreign enough . |
| 30 | Some thought he had suffered a momentary heart problem , but he was not running like a tired horse and afterwards was completely sound . |