Example sentences of "of [noun] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other times of the day of course he measures minimum temperature , maximum temperature , erm and the number of sunshine hours , the rainfall , and other temperatures such as ground temperatures or the earth 's temperatures , all these things come into the picture to build up a weather observation . |
| 2 | And then of course he gives classical precedence for this Tireseus , Orpheus , those poets who had magical powers , Homer , who suggests not only frugal diet , but chastity will be the best preparation for the poet who has this task in hand . |
| 3 | Now of course he has two failures to build upon . |
| 4 | BROUGH JUSTICE : When Jack Charlton was boss of Middlesbrough he had star players of the quality of Graeme Souness , left , and David Mills , right . |
| 5 | By adopting this method of study he wasted less time and it also enabled him to learn more efficiently . |
| 6 | For a yearly payment of £5 he conveyed that piece of his estate to the Apothecaries Company , with one particular proviso : that every year fifty dried specimens grown there in the same year be supplied to the Royal Society of London . |
| 7 | In favour of marriage he noted such things as children , companionship and home comforts : ‘ picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire , and books and music perhaps ’ . |
| 8 | As a man of honour he had little alternative but to accompany his friend to America . |
| 9 | During the expedition which was undertaken in the depth of winter he passed 5 weeks in the bush without seeing a civilised being sleeping occasionally in a Tent , sometimes under a cart but more frequently on the bare ground wrapped in a Kangaroo skin rug still he had not had a cold or the slightest disorder … ’ |
| 10 | He retired in 1939 , but with the outbreak of war he became scientific adviser to the Iron and Steel Research Council and then entered the steel industry , becoming in 1943 director of research of Richard Thomas & Co . |
| 11 | At the end of August he received another letter from Leopold telling him that the archbishop had forgiven him and wanted a reconciliation . |
| 12 | Lancelot , although befriended by a hermit , can not be brought back to a normal state of mind because the hermit is too poor to feed him properly , and ‘ for defaute of sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforetyme ’ , and became violent , breaking the legs and arms of those who tried to help him . |
| 13 | He built it and he put those , instead of drawers he put those wire racks in ? |
| 14 | Her father recounted his latest golf tournament , Guy talked to Charles about sailing , then opened up the conversation by introducing a surprisingly shrewd appreciation of the arts into the debate , when it became clear that in addition to racing yachts around the Isle of Wight he made frequent visits to see the RSC at the Barbican , and was something of an expert on modern ballet . |
| 15 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 16 | When the Headmaster showed him around parts of Hardside he put little pieces of cloth down on the ground and stood on these to protect his shoes . |
| 17 | Yesterday the Banking Ombudsman revealed that the number of complaints he received last year jumped by 60 per cent . |
| 18 | With Richard Hill of Thornton he killed 20 brace of partridges with 40 shots . |
| 19 | The variety of tasks he undertook included endpapers for one of George Weidenfeld 's Contact books and decorated initials for another ; a title illustration to accompany E. M. Forster 's story , ‘ Die Geschichte vom Meermädchen ’ in Blick in die Welt ( 15 November 1947 ) , a magazine produced by the Ministry of Information for distribution in Germany ; whilst small and sometimes humorous vignettes by him continued to appear in Lilliput . |
| 20 | In Oxford to promote a new book of photographs he proved that charisma never fades . |