Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Lordship reached the conclusion that no evidence was not a jurisdictional defect because he expressly adopted the limited concept of review adumbrated above . |
| 2 | This prompted an unusually animated argument between counsel and the judge , who was clearly outraged at what he expressly called the crass incompetence of the Crown Prosecution Service in serving and making part of the prosecution case a witness they knew would support the defendant and then seeking to discontinue when predictably he did just that . |
| 3 | In the ten Ives songs which he provides as fill-up he deftly avoids the obvious pitfalls in writing which is only parodistic in part , whether in the overtly sentimental fragments or the rousing songs like The Circus Band and the patriotic First World War song , He is there ! . |
| 4 | As Merrill shook her head he deftly folded the typed sheets , replaced them in the envelope and handed it to her . |
| 5 | He had taken his glasses off now and pulled his T-shirt up over his head , revealing that manly torso of perfect proportions , over which he deftly fastened the frilled silk shirt , and tucked it into his jeans . |
| 6 | But he had provided a double failsafe mechanism for himself in case he accidently pressed the wrong key while accessing the code . |
| 7 | A publican or tobacconist who , in good faith , sells his goods to a 15-year-old who looks 20 has committed a crime , unless he successfully employs the permitted defence that he sold the goods innocently . |
| 8 | Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery . |
| 9 | One way of characterizing Althusser 's intervention would be Martin Jay 's observation that he effectively destroyed the Lukácsian notion of totality . |
| 10 | He discreetly steers the old Alps plan through , and fosters ambitious projects to stud shipping routes with underwater rocks , and the atmosphere with unpredictable patterns of clear air turbulence . |
| 11 | In so doing , he wholeheartedly committed the English nation to the military struggle against Catholic France and inaugurated an important new phase in the international relations of both state and church . |
| 12 | He apparently wishes the official title of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be dropped in favour of the archaic President of the Board of Trade . |
| 13 | Here he obviously considered the pharmaceutical value of this plant important enough to include an illustration , and he felt the economic significance of Rubia tinctorum , madder , warranted an engraving by John Sebastian Miller , from Hortus Cliffortianus . |
| 14 | In doing so , he naturally infuriated the federal government in Ottawa , which protested that his words were an intrusion into Canada 's internal affairs . |
| 15 | When Mehmed the Conqueror took the city of Byzantium in 1453 he personally invested the new patriarch , Gennadios II . |
| 16 | Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ . |
| 17 | He so impressed the permanent secretary , Sir Donald Maitland , that he was invited to the key civil servants ' committees . |
| 18 | In later experiments he somewhat altered the behavioural design . |
| 19 | After several pints he suddenly startled the whole pub by saying in a loud , benevolent voice , ‘ And a Little Child shall lead Them . ’ |
| 20 | And yet he felt he alone had the whole worry of what action to take , and the responsibility for her life as well as his . |
| 21 | He alone has the right to , for he alone enjoys the intimate relation of sonship with God the Father . |
| 22 | He greatly amplified the Frankish role , established by his predecessors Charles Martel and Pepin le Bref , as defender of Christianity allied primarily ( but not always harmoniously ) with the Roman pope rather than the Christian hierarchs and rulers of the Eastern Roman Empire based in Constantinople . |
| 23 | He constantly scratched the bald dome of his head . |
| 24 | Then he just brushed the very tips of his fingers against hers and plunged the offending hand deep in his pocket as if his fist were on fire and the pocket was a bucket full of sand . |
| 25 | He just hoped the dumb bitches appreciated it . |
| 26 | I reckon he just took the easy way out . ’ |
| 27 | Was he just called the green night or did |
| 28 | Family commitments now meant that he just did the occasional Cowes Week and Club Race . |
| 29 | He just used the normal stain stuff , you know . ’ |
| 30 | And he just sees the physical aspect of it . |