Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Watch me , ’ said Amiss , as at high speed he put on the clothes Pooley had just brought him . |
2 | When confronted more directly with homophobic reactions , Minton retaliated with spirit : once at the Chelsea Arts Club he sent back a note , passed along the bar , rudely objecting to the sailor he had in tow , with the remark : ‘ You would n't mind if it was an Admiral . ’ |
3 | After finishing his apprenticeship he set up a business with this uncle , but it failed . |
4 | The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great . |
5 | At the beginning of every term he filled in a form habitually distributed to all teaching staff , requiring details of authorized absences from college ; for sabbaticals , or the marking of outside examinations , or simply because contractual staff-student contract hours had been fulfilled . |
6 | Well , I wo n't say but that was fair enough , a pity he has not the key he needs to read it , it would give him pleasure . |
7 | Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R–101 , obviously an enthusiast from an early age . |
8 | From the top of the kitchen-dresser he took down a jar . |
9 | For a brief moment he experienced again the exhilaration he had felt on the plain late the previous day when he dropped a big red banteng bull with a single shot from nearly two hundred yards . |
10 | But he also knew the moment he threw away the shotgun , he was also throwing away his last hope of survival . |
11 | The next moment he let out a cry , of disbelief and joy , similar to hers . |
12 | As Polly took his place he started down the companionway . |
13 | To his left wing he made out a line of higher hills and headed for it . |
14 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
15 | At a hospital news conference he read out a speech of thanks . |
16 | At a hospital news conference he read out a speech of thanks . |
17 | In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’ |
18 | The same day he set up a Cabinet committee to investigate such a union and Helmut Haussmann , the West German Economics Minister , presented a three-stage plan to introduce economic and monetary union by the end of 1992 . |
19 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
20 | For nearly half a mile he went back the way he had come , only to become more lost and confused than before . |
21 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
22 | Layton put it somewhat differently when he added that ‘ the two great qualities a young writer has are his arrogance and inexperience , ’ and on another occasion he picked out the twin characteristics of ‘ precocity and independence . ’ |
23 | After a while he became more the professor than the professor was himself — just by observing the distinguished man and taking his being into and upon himself … yes , I have never forgotten that . |
24 | In Emendatio Vitae he deals with prayer , meditation and reading in that order , but in the actual chapter on contemplation he spells out a sequence which agrees with what he tells us of his own experience and which does not contradict his account in The Form . |
25 | On his way drunkenly from the pub to the wood one night he fell down a railway embankment on to the line . |
26 | By night he lived out the fantasies he had internalised from avidly watching his collection of over 6,000 slasher videos and pornographic manga comic-books . |
27 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
28 | Despite the opposition of his father he took up the study of medicine , first at Leipzig University and then in Vienna , where his funds ran out , forcing him to take employment for a time with the Governor of Transylvania until he had accumulated sufficient money to continue his studies . |
29 | So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation . |
30 | A person buying or leasing land had no previous right to be there at all , let alone to trade there , and when he takes possession of that land subject to a negative restrictive covenant he gives up no right or freedom which he previously had . |