Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know how he planned to explain the false name and why he was living at Pen House , ’ said Holmes . |
| 5 | If he ran into Eleanor he planned to blame the general editor and make soothing noises . |
| 6 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He could see the horizon just above the shining disc of his propeller , and he fought to drag the leaden nose up to it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He applied to join the Oratorian Congregation newly formed by John Henry Newman ( later cardinal , q.v. ) , but was turned down in March 1847 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 15 | We issued a summons and he failed to pay the full sum on time . ’ |
| 16 | Anderson , twice winner of the North of Ireland , and once the South , was hurt when he failed to make the 1989 team which won at Peach Tree . |
| 17 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He got fed the wrong line . |
| 20 | He worked and worried about this long before he got to play the old man . |
| 21 | He admitted drawing the dividing line will be hard . |
| 22 | Above all he sought to dismantle the traditional peasant commune . |
| 23 | The motive force behind all of Peter 's reforms was the greater glory of the Russian state , and to this end he sought to harness the entire human and material reserves of his extensive kingdom . |
| 24 | He dealt with his fear of being controlled by , in some sense , becoming like his mother , and he tried to earn the unconditional attention of others . |
| 25 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 26 | While there he tried to form the Labour Church Settlement , a community to function as a centre of intellectual and cultural life for the surviving Labour churches . |
| 27 | He tried to telephone the British artillery unit nearest the balloons , but the operator could n't get through . |
| 28 | He tried to force the military issue but was checked ; a telegram in the names of Lenin and Stalin forbade him ‘ to ‘ self-determine ’ Georgia ’ . |
| 29 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 30 | Martin Kean was injured as he tried to carry the flaming pan out of his third storey flat in Ainstey House , Norton . |