Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chronicles and records suggest that he exercised a general supervision over all Lancaster 's affairs : directing his estate officials , receiving dubiously acquired lands to which the earl wished to bar legal claims , acting as Lancaster 's intermediary with the king , and supporting him in his political and military ventures . |
| 2 | It is at that stage in the design process that he has the greatest opportunity to explore , and the least number of constraints . |
| 3 | Some records say that he dismissed the White Lions and the rest of his retinue , claiming that he wanted a moment alone to contemplate the blade that had done his people so much harm . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that he has the same problem with me that I have with the Whips Office . |
| 5 | Believe me when I say that he has an unexpected side to him . |
| 6 | His knees frequently dislocate and he has a painful hiatus hernia which makes him scream . |
| 7 | His writings , particularly his Homilies on Ezechiel , composed while he was pope , show that he thought the contemplative life of monks would be best validated if it bore fruit in action . |
| 8 | Sparke 's works show that he had an intense curiosity about the economic , political , religious , social , and scientific concerns of the day . |
| 9 | It was emotionally captivating to see a truck laden with consumer goods draw up at Tazarbu , to hear the driver announce that he had a new poem from Muhammad Dabub in Ajdabiya , and to see shopkeepers , customers and driver sit in the shade to listen to the poem . |
| 10 | Returning from a London party , he was driving down Radnor Walk when he saw the unmarked vans parked by the kerb in front of Tweed 's terrace house . |
| 11 | That he has managed to carve out such a successful photographic career for himself is extraordinary when you consider that he spent the first 12 years of his working life as a bricklayer . |
| 12 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that he recognises the outstanding work done at Fleetlands ? |
| 13 | Nothing particular follows from the fact that he visits them once a month , except perhaps we infer that he has a close relationship with them . |
| 14 | ‘ A lunatic who would n't let a bunch of bionic reptiles loose unless he had a good reason . ’ |
| 15 | I know that he paid a useful and constructive visit recently . |
| 16 | Well let's for a moment assume that he has no such intention , that no such idea has ever crossed his mind . |
| 17 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 18 | We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic . |
| 19 | When Reid ( 1986 ) identified seven causes of disruptive behaviour ( underachievement , the family , links between school and parents , peer group relationships , the gulf between the general public and teachers , schooling per se and teachers ) , I believe that he highlighted the very issues schools need to turn their attention to and over which they might have significant influence . |
| 20 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 21 | Often his researches demand that he visit the far corners of the world . |
| 22 | ‘ I gather that he led a lonely life with few friends . ’ |
| 23 | To which party did Sir Cyril Smith belong before he rejoined the Liberal Party ? |
| 24 | You hear the crowd roar and a new name comes up on the leaderboard and you wonder whether he holed a long putt or chipped in . |
| 25 | Ambling into the nets , he had barely taken guard when he suffered the one embarrassment all England batsmen fear on overseas tours . |
| 26 | I thought it was worth pushing for the extra I mean when he said a thousand , I thought it would be |