Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His top-storey apartment had a glass dome which allowed him to sit watching the falling stars . |
| 2 | Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity . |
| 3 | Rosenberg 's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry , but his tone is different : more impersonal , informal , ironic , and lacking the indignation characteristic of the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon [ qq.v . ] . |
| 4 | Why , then , was John Titford a member of this glorified Home Guard when , at the age of 23 , we might have expected him to have joined the regular army or to have found his way somehow into the militia ? |
| 5 | This new Rose who had descended upon him had joined the gaudy throng , for reasons she would n't divulge , and had lost some of her individuality . |
| 6 | For one thing , many of those who had opposed him had joined the Royalist army and had been killed in the war . |
| 7 | We watch him trying to master the pure theory of swimming — he has no intention of ever setting foot in the water . |
| 8 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 9 | L. MacNeill Weir , in his book The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald , was the main critic , suggesting that MacDonald was an opportunist , a liberal rather than a socialist , that he schemed to ditch the Labour government , and betrayed the Labour Party . |
| 10 | So he swooped to catch the falling child , drive away the wolf or restore the horse — all these miracles being depicted in small panels round the central figure of the Saint . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know how he planned to explain the false name and why he was living at Pen House , ’ said Holmes . |
| 12 | If he ran into Eleanor he planned to blame the general editor and make soothing noises . |
| 13 | He agreed to summon the Scottish parliament , that it should consent to Mary 's marriage with the dauphin Francis and to her departure for France , and that Scottish castles should be handed over to the French — as indeed Dunbar and Blackness were . |
| 14 | He could see the horizon just above the shining disc of his propeller , and he fought to drag the leaden nose up to it . |
| 15 | Like almost all other ministers he avoided visiting the defeated South as such a trip would not have fitted the received view of America which both hosts and visitors wished to retain . |
| 16 | He applied to join the Oratorian Congregation newly formed by John Henry Newman ( later cardinal , q.v. ) , but was turned down in March 1847 . |
| 17 | It was not Srikkanth 's day : he recovered to open the Indian reply , but was unhappy at being given out caught behind off McDermott ( Healy 's 100th Test catch ) , indicating that the ball hit his forearm . |
| 18 | He failed to notice the borrowed things that the girls wore , looking around him instead in dumb bafflement : it was a wedding day , a shining moment in his life , and , except for the dressed children , it could be any ordinary day . |
| 19 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 20 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |
| 21 | Andrea de Cesaris reads the bad news , he failed to pre-qualify the new Jordan . |
| 22 | We issued a summons and he failed to pay the full sum on time . ’ |
| 23 | He failed to make the necessary adjustments to his style of leadership — most obviously , to create some kind of transmission belt between himself and the nation . |
| 24 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 25 | On reaching Khiva , however , he failed to convince the local khan that Uzbek goods ought to travel due west instead of north-west to Astrakhan . |
| 26 | And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ? |
| 27 | He got fed the wrong line . |
| 28 | He worked and worried about this long before he got to play the old man . |
| 29 | He admitted drawing the dividing line will be hard . |
| 30 | During Allen 's second day in the witness box , he admitted taking the nude pictures but denied they were pornographic . |