Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1845 he started a wholesale grocery business in Liverpool , and later a printing business ; hard work and a good business sense allowed him to sell these for a small fortune in 1856 . |
| 2 | But first this lunchtime , the High Court in Glasgow has heard how the brother of murdered Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon had a flashback of the incident which helped him to identify one of the alleged attackers . |
| 3 | Besides , Botha does not defend , which is not really a problem because he stayed miles from his scrum-half , Du Preez , and made him look terrible with a slippery ball . |
| 4 | He dreamed up mad little schemes that both gave him a great deal of pleasure and helped him to avoid some of the inevitable boredom of an out-of-town tour production . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) A justice of the peace before whom a person is brought under subsection ( 4 ) above may … if of the opinion that that person — ( a ) is not likely to surrender to custody , or ( b ) has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , remand him in custody or commit him to custody , as the case may require , or alternatively , grant him bail subject to the same or to different conditions , but if not of that opinion shall grant him bail subject to the same conditions ( if any ) as were originally imposed . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) A justice of the peace before whom a person is brought under subsection ( 4 ) above may … if of the opinion that that person — ( a ) is not likely to surrender to custody , or ( b ) has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , remand him in custody or commit him to custody , as the case may require , or alternatively , grant him bail subject to the same or to different conditions , but if not of that opinion shall grant him bail subject to the same conditions ( if any ) as were originally imposed . |
| 7 | Further , the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 are clear and they are mandatory in form , to the extent that if the justice is not of the opinion that the person is not likely to surrender to custody , or has broken or is likely to break any condition of his bail , the justice has to grant him bail subject to the same conditions , if any , as were originally imposed . |
| 8 | It took a few bumps on the head for him to get used to the low ceiling and the prominent oak beams , but now they do n't bother him at all . |
| 9 | Clearly , listening to a Robert Johnson record now , in Britain , is very different from dancing to him playing live in a black bar in Mississippi in 1936 ; and there are probably consequential differences in the music itself , too ( for example , Johnson would at the very least be constrained by the time-limits imposed by the record form — as all musicians , even to some extent on LPs , are ; thus , in some ways a Duke Ellington concert , in a ‘ bourgeois ’ concert hall , using written parts , might turn out a more ‘ oral ’ experience than the same piece encapsulated on a twelve-inch record ) . |
| 10 | For example , though he made a number of proposals to increase public participation his overriding concern for expediting procedures forced him to compress these into a impracticable time-scale . |
| 11 | There before him stood one of the tallest , thinnest men he had ever seen outside a circus . |
| 12 | and his time on Earth had taught him to feel cold as an intellectual concept , if not a physical one , and he might have wished to take shelter . |
| 13 | ‘ I think Michael was probably miscast in The Importance of Being Earnest , ’ he recalled , ‘ but , in Coriolanus , he made much of a small part . |
| 14 | He made several of the two-week journeys to northern Russia aboard the sweeper , HMS Hussar . |
| 15 | And if it be thought that Mr Hunte retains a soft spot for Pakistan ever since he and Garry Sobers had a stand of 446 against them at Sabina Park 34 years ago , we have ascertained that he made clear to the 1992 management that any further offence would be met with punishment noticeably more severe . |
| 16 | We went quietly up to the top floor , where he unlocked one of the small black doors . |
| 17 | He commissioned much of the interior decoration from Alfred Stevens [ q.v. ] : there was a special relationship between patron and sculptor , under which Stevens was given a very free hand . |
| 18 | Contrary to older views — which saw him as out of favour in papal government under Celestine III ( from the Boboni family ) — he signs most of the papal privileges in the seven years between 1191 and 1197 . |
| 19 | Then , for the eighteen months until March 1931 , he experienced one of the roughest passages which has been the lot of any party leader this century . |
| 20 | Then when he took to chasing he produced one of the best performance by an Irish horse at Cheltenham when going down narrowly to Garrison Savannah in the 1990 Sun Alliance Novices Chase — and Garrison Savannah the following won the Gold Cup and finished second in the National . |
| 21 | He produced many of the beautiful hybrid varieties that are still sought after by tropical waterlily enthusiasts — although now devoted tropical water-lily growers are developing new strains every year . |
| 22 | He avoided any of the hard decisions that would have to be made if he wanted to stabilise the industry at about its current size , as promised by the hon. Member for Holborn and St.Pancras . |
| 23 | He also said he expected some of the banned garages and testers to appeal against the rulings , and meanwhile they were allowed to continue MOT testing . |
| 24 | This is one of the main reasons for the statement that an engineer can only do his own job well if he understands those of the other functions in his company . |
| 25 | He announced this to the Liberal ministers who had once again congregated in 10 , Downing Street . |
| 26 | He became unbeatable over the middle distances in an era before training became scientific . |
| 27 | Slowly , aided by a remarkable memory for visual patterns , he became familiar with the endless series of new star groups . |
| 28 | Eventually he became depressed by the sheer difficulty of his subject , by the realization that he was not , as he put it , going to be able to build a cathedral . |
| 29 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 30 | He became famous under the Greek name of Clitomachus and in 127 was recognized as the official head of his school . |