Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles . |
2 | When the Royal Society awarded Mendeleyev and Lothar Meyer its Davy medal for the discovery of the periodic law , Newlands renewed his campaign ; he eventually received the Davy medal in 1887 , but was never elected FRS . |
3 | In 1880 he successfully moved the Buckland yew , with a documented age of 800 years . |
4 | Had he merely handed the delivery order to G for return to A , the decision might have been otherwise , but by endorsing it to G he had gone far beyond what was necessary to secure the return of it to A. |
5 | He only used the ground floor as a café , anyway . |
6 | He only joined the drama group because the best chicks were in plays ; he did n't especially like dancing in his mid-teens because he had become too fat ; sports interested him , and he was fanatical about basketball . |
7 | He suddenly grabbed the beer can and hurled it against the wall then upturned the table , sending it crashing against the cooker . |
8 | Siding covertly with Nasser , he progressively undermined the Suez Canal Users Association , which he himself had created , and sapped British and French confidence in American good faith with every twist in his tortuous attempts to reach a peaceful solution . |
9 | In 1980 , when Prince Charles introduced his charmingly unpolished bride-to-be to the media , and hence the world , he effortlessly held the centre stage . |
10 | He just hoped the ale wife strained the ale before she served it to Sir John ! |
11 | I do n't know what was said at the relief office but when Dad came back he just threw the ration card on the table in disgust . |
12 | It took the usual twenty minutes , and , when he finally entered the conference hall , the motion in favour of Europe was being moved by Gerry Malone , a personable Scot who was now the MP for Winchester . |
13 | Taking hold of a strong branch , he finally cleared the escape hatch with his legs and dropped to the ground . |
14 | He thus defined the preformation/ epigenesis controversy . |
15 | ‘ The givens of organization , ’ he reminds us , ‘ are ambiguity , uncertainty , imperfection and paradox ’ ; he thus follows the organization theory of March and his associates ( Cohen et al. , 1972 ) towards the conviction that strategic and structural responses carry their own falsehood . |
16 | He already had the entry ticket of a couple of rejection slips — one from the BBC . |
17 | He already found the Iran operation bizarre in any number of ways . |
18 | But when the rising began on 24 April 1916 he promptly joined the rebel garrison in Jacobs ' factory . |
19 | ‘ Then , by the same token , ’ said the earl , ‘ you are saying that the man who finished the work was one who did have cause to want Aldhelm removed from the world , before he ever reached the abbey gatehouse . |
20 | But Baccy never used a curse word , nor did he ever take the briar pipe out of his mouth despite having abandoned the tobacco habit on joining the church at the age of eighteen . |
21 | Each new member of staff receives a five page letter from Mr Nitschke explaining what the hotel is about and he still attends the induction programme each Monday morning . |
22 | He further told The Art Newspaper that completion of a new wing in 1991 has now given the Brooks the physical space to handle the attendance ‘ WONDERS ’ has drawn . |
23 | In their best spell just after half-time , Kenny Halliday had a penalty for Grangemouth , and he further interrupted the West flow with another penalty midway through the half . |
24 | He always rejected the hellraiser label but he began living up to his image when , in 1953 , he embarked on a drunken affair with Vivien Leigh while filming Elephant Walk in Ceylon . |
25 | " that 's Woodall ; he always finds the mains switch at parties … " |
26 | He always used the side door which led into a small office . |
27 | But the planners he hates watched unscathed as he mistakenly attacked the housing department 50 yards away . |
28 | Reynolds was quite sure , however — excess of caution prevailing again — that he purposely kept the diversion memo out of North 's hands . |
29 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
30 | Of these victims 367 were claimed in Farnes 's games for Essex , for whom he once performed the hat trick — against Nottinghamshire in 1939 — and for whom his best performance was 15 for 113 against Glamorgan in 1938 . |