Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 2 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 3 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 4 | Three independent sources confirmed he gave the positive test , it added . |
| 5 | Lamb claimed he spotted the Pakistani bowlers behaving illegally and brought it to the attention of umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer . |
| 6 | And just a week before the Council opened he warned the papal curia that it must not be an obstacle in the way of reform . |
| 7 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 8 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 9 | He then took his engineering skills into the Alfa factory where he soon discovered he enjoyed the organizing side of the sport more than racing . |
| 10 | Mary Reveley 's stable star was one of those affected by the virus last February , which meant he missed the big Cheltenham and Aintree meetings . |
| 11 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 12 | She knew he had the proverbial wife and two kids at Camberley . |
| 13 | He thought he had the upper hand while she was trapped here , and he was right — it made her feel awkward and uneasy , put her at a disadvantage . |
| 14 | Robert thought he recognized the fat boy . |
| 15 | He thought he glimpsed the slight gleam of light on a man 's belt , somewhere towards the bottom of the vegetable patch . |
| 16 | Jensen insisted he relished the hostile atmosphere , but joined his manager 's condemnation of Buksch , saying : ‘ The ref lost control from the very first minute . |
| 17 | Will Wyatt , managing director of network television , said Mr Birt should not lose his job over the dispute and insisted he had the full support of his senior colleagues . |
| 18 | Will Wyatt , managing director of network television , said Mr Birt should not lose his job over the dispute and insisted he had the full support of his senior colleagues . |
| 19 | When she demurred he said the other possibility was that Holly had tipped them off . |
| 20 | But how did he choose the initial state or configuration of the universe ? |
| 21 | What did he think the Scots army would be doing meantime ? |
| 22 | Only when he saw others smiling and laughing did he give the little barks . |
| 23 | Maybe JTR helped pick up the pieces or did he watch the poor man 's agony from afar ? |
| 24 | ‘ Did he dance the other night ? ’ |
| 25 | So what did he sell the Dutch box |
| 26 | Did he shoot the other people involved by any chance ? |
| 27 | Svend , she knew , was blond and blue-eyed , but did he have the powerful charisma of his uncle ? |
| 28 | But it was Eliot who in the end loosened the hold of the " modernists " on English culture — not only did he assert the public role and " social usefulness " of the writer in an almost nineteenth-century manner , but he also announced that the principles he derived from his religious belief were more enduring than literary or critical ones . |
| 29 | Nor did he ask the obvious questions which Harry would have found so difficult to answer . |
| 30 | Only then did he see the thin figure of Louis leaning against the saloon bulkhead . |