Example sentences of "he [vb past] [det] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
| 2 | He laid much of the blame on the growth of incomes outstripping that of consumer goods production , and attributed this primarily to mistakes in granting autonomy to state enterprises and in regulating the co-operative sector . |
| 3 | He agreed some of the material was ‘ dubious ’ but did not think children should be protected by law against being photographed in the nude . |
| 4 | He shared enough of the monk 's ideal to be able to help . |
| 5 | With dangerous calm he spooned some of the material on to his plate , raised a forkful and began to chew slowly . |
| 6 | The chairman of the CITB , Sir Clifford Chetwood , made a statement in July this year in which he announced some of the board 's projects to stimulate training . |
| 7 | But it 's erm er the light just takes away the inner tube and the batteries Tony said he was a manager so he got that as a freebie so is that it ? |
| 8 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 9 | He revealed this to a group of Irish journalists who were visiting the Zionist Terror State . |
| 10 | Eventually he owned most of the country between Bath and Malmesbury , an estate that he covered with a complete range of model estate buildings , from tiny farm workers ' cottages to his great house at Grittleton . |
| 11 | Wycliffe showed no interest in Riddle 's study or his bedroom , instead he tried another of the mahogany doors . |
| 12 | The grip was warm and fierce , suggesting that he retained much of the strength of his youth . |
| 13 | While Gabriel was emptying the cart of all remaining rubbish , ready for painting , he found some of the parchment petitions . |
| 14 | This was a pity , since Hitchcock had the assistance of no less than Hein Heckroth as production designer and fellow-cockney expatriate Albert Whitlock ( who had also worked on The Birds and Marnie ) to do the matte paintings — he created most of the art gallery that figures in one sequence as a meeting place . |
| 15 | He used this as an excuse to force the prime minister , Chandra Shekhar , to sack the pro-Tiger state government earlier this year . |
| 16 | It was a month before he used any of the money from the locked drawer in his mother 's room . |
| 17 | Walpole later described him as ‘ an able geometrician and an exquisite architect , and of the purest taste both in the Grecian and Gothic styles … my oracle in taste , the standard to whom I submitted my trifles , the genius that presided over poor Strawberry ’ ; and from c .1753 onwards he designed much of the exterior , as well as a number of the interiors . |
| 18 | He mentioned that as an example of partnership . |
| 19 | He lifted some of the curse from that place of death . |
| 20 | He reduced this to a quarter and set the glass down on the wooden table with a clatter . |
| 21 | This may have been because , according to Jones , he attracted most of the blame . |
| 22 | He ate little of the meal he 'd prepared , but added more than half the wine to the mix of beer and whisky inside him . |
| 23 | He seemed less of the dictator than he had appeared to her yesterday ! |
| 24 | He spilled some of the machine tea from the plastic cups as he moved , and one of the wizened youths glanced back for a moment in disapproval . |
| 25 | She could not see much of the room because of how he filled most of the doorway , but she saw the glow of the fire and a glimpse of a baize-covered table on which were papers . |
| 26 | He showed this to the porter who watched over the entrance turnstile , and Diane produced her staff ticket . |
| 27 | He reckoned that the population of the day numbered somewhere between six and nine hundred people , but he based this on the fact that the laird pressed together an army of a hundred men for the ‘ 45 , and according to Johnson ‘ the sixth part of a people is supposed capable of bearing arms ’ . |
| 28 | He based this on the belief that only where property considerations were absent — as by definition they were in the proletariat — could ‘ true sex-love ’ develop . |
| 29 | When it was cooked , he poured half of the broth into a small ceramic bowl and took it across . |
| 30 | The fact that his books of the 1950s and 1960s , like Our Plundered Planet , had examined environmental issues that few people , other than Rachel Carson , were concerned with then , gave Murray a forerunner status in the emerging American green movement , and he linked this with the tradition of home-grown anarchism : ‘ What we are trying to do , ’ he wrote , ‘ is to redeem certain aspects of the American Dream . |