Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he hired a lorry , bribed the demolition men to let him cart away the finest doorcases , moulded corner cupboards , cornices and chimney pieces and stored them in a London County Council Historic Buildings warehouse at his own expense . |
| 2 | And so they had met ( it had been so easy , as it happened , for him to sneak away the previous afternoon ) nervously and excitedly outside the main entrance to the University Parks at 2.30 p.m . |
| 3 | Observers suggested that election of a Gorbachev ally would enable him to surrender completely the day-to-day running of the party in order to concentrate on the presidency . |
| 4 | He stopped short of understanding Christianity because when he thought about that , he laid aside the receptive imagination with which he allowed himself to appreciate myth and became rigidly narrow and empiricist . |
| 5 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 6 | By the time he reached the White House , he shared fully the deep contempt for Congress that his hero Woodrow Wilson had repeatedly displayed . |
| 7 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside Mike Hawthorn , Graham Hill , Jim Clark , John Surtees , Jackie Stewart and James Hunt . |
| 8 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside the other greats . |
| 9 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside Mike Hawthorn , Graham Hill , Jim Clark , John Surtees , Jackie Stewart and James Hunt . |
| 10 | He became only the seventh Briton of all time to wear the champion 's laurels and will go down in history alongside Mike Hawthorn , Graham Hill , Jim Clark , John Surtees , Jackie Stewart and James Hunt . |
| 11 | He became only the seventh Briton to wear the champion 's laurels . |
| 12 | First and last he sought only the strictest fidelity to justice , rectitude and truth . |
| 13 | With an angry , violent gesture he flung aside the broken piece of door . |
| 14 | Guiltily he wiped away the girlish tear-stains with the back of his hand . |
| 15 | But he envied more the great herring gulls and black-headed gulls which he watched through the bars of his cage as they soared on the summery winds , the white and grey of their feathers caught brightly by the sun as they banked into a turn . |
| 16 | Since Eliot 's family was of West Country provenance , he retained all the more interest in that region and in minority cultures , as I have mentioned . |
| 17 | Of its contents he retained only the haziest notion ; and he explained that he would have been reluctant to contribute to such a volume — his Second Thoughts on Humanism , published a year earlier , had consisted of a devastating criticism of the editor — save that it represented a tribute to Irving Babbitt , whom he had always revered as one of his masters and about whom he felt that his early criticism had been misunderstood , not least by Babbitt himself . |
| 18 | He moved aside the folded tephillim and uncovered five neatly-bound books . |
| 19 | He has just the one daughter and that girl has given him great cause for concern . |
| 20 | Whatever the reason he has neither the spiritual character nor the material resources to redeem Ruth . |
| 21 | Rollnik , for example , finds that he has roughly the same number of really bright students in a year now as in 1960 . |
| 22 | In 1717 he was appointed with Abraham Stanyan [ q.v. ] joint mediator at the Austro-Turkish peace congress at Passarowitz , a task he discharged ably the following year and for which he was well rewarded . |
| 23 | Working with creatures of such speed it was important that he used exactly the right type of camera . |
| 24 | Tolkien said that he ‘ disliked ’ Shakespeare ‘ cordially ’ , but he used exactly the same phrase of allegory too , where it concealed an opinion of some subtlety . |
| 25 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 26 | If he behaved normally the other boys stepped back and did not respond . |
| 27 | So I shouted to Paul to come and have a look at it and he says well the cheeky bugger . |
| 28 | Because that , he did mention that he says so the next thing is the home 'll have to go . |
| 29 | He received also the grand cross of the Legion of Honour and a honorary DCL from Oxford . |
| 30 | He ignored also the growing contribution made by the private sector , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest rightly drew attention . |