Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed to notice the borrowed things that the girls wore , looking around him instead in dumb bafflement : it was a wedding day , a shining moment in his life , and , except for the dressed children , it could be any ordinary day . |
| 2 | He failed to make the necessary adjustments to his style of leadership — most obviously , to create some kind of transmission belt between himself and the nation . |
| 3 | During Allen 's second day in the witness box , he admitted taking the nude pictures but denied they were pornographic . |
| 4 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 5 | The Colonel slashed with his riding crop as he tried to disentangle the trapped limbers . |
| 6 | The car rumbled about him … even more restful than the noise of train wheels in the old days ; he tried to remember the old days … |
| 7 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |
| 8 | He tried to ignore the murmured whispers and laughter as he made his way through the streets across London Bridge and back into Southwark . |
| 9 | Thus he helped to pass the tedious hours of air travel during a world tour in 1946 by reading Bagehot 's The English Constitution . |
| 10 | Whatever he drew exhibited the old traits and gestures for which he had been criticised and condemned , but preferred not to correct : their so-called clumsiness , for instance . |
| 11 | First he has to create a neutral police force . |
| 12 | Does the hon. Gentleman believe that when he has created an independent Scottish state it will have a separate currency , or would he go for the ecu ? |
| 13 | Even when answers start to emerge , it will be some time before those who depend on the industry for a livelihood — and that includes at least 100,000 Scots — will know whether or not he has sent the right signals in a climate of fierce international competition for scarce oil industry investment funds . |
| 14 | By surmounting , so he tells us , one set of obstacles in being accepted by the Balinese , he also creates the rhetorical conditions where we are likely to favour a belief that he has surmounted the theoretical obstacles attended on his methodological discovery as well . |
| 15 | He has seen the Peliatan dancers on tour , hung his walls with posters of that photogenic island , bought records of gamelan music . |
| 16 | Partly because , it seems to me , his life is so much more important to him than his work , and he has seen the dreadful consequences of the solitary confinement some writers and artists consider the sine qua non of their trade . |
| 17 | One question that the newly appointed editor Tim Marlowe ( of the Tate 's education department ) will have to decide is the editorial stance of the magazine : he has to balance the curatorial concerns of the Tate with issues that would appeal to a general reader while treading an ideologically independent path . |
| 18 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has got a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 19 | He has described the vulgar pastimes of football , bull baiting , etc. and revealed the extent of gentry encouragement and patronage . |
| 20 | But Neil Kinnock has endorsed the McNamara line on this issue and he has endorsed the main arguments used to justify it . |
| 21 | Where the applicant has failed to attend a previous hearing the court may refuse to hear his renewed application until he has paid the previous costs thrown away , which the court may assess for that purpose ( Thames Investments & Securities plc v Benjamin [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1381 ) . |
| 22 | He has allowed the Ugandan Asians , whom Idi Amin expelled in 1972 , to return and reclaim their businesses . |
| 23 | He has to experience the awful consequences of his addiction , including the withdrawal of parental rescue operations , before he will have the motivation to stop . |
| 24 | On occasions when he is developing thought about contemplative prayer as an experience where man feels his faculties of reason and will to be at rest , informed by a loving knowledge of God , or about this experience both restoring what man lost at the Fall and anticipating the life to come , he acknowledges that he has outstripped the immediate needs of his particular audience : " has no fully seen what it is , for is opened " ( 46.319a. – 119 ) . |
| 25 | North Adams mayor John Barrett , who chairs MASSMoCA 's Cultural Development Commission , interprets this as license to take as much time as he needs to find the additional funds . |
| 26 | He puts into them what he genuinely believes he needs to achieve the required levels of profit , and he can justify each figure . |
| 27 | He promised to release the empty flats in his row of Chelsea houses tomorrow if guaranteed repossession within 48 hours by some sort of contract . |
| 28 | He starts to rearrange the still-smouldering logs , fanning them into flame . |
| 29 | How he loves to recall the far-off days before the Netherlandish beetle savaged the English elm , before the uplands were girdled with Christmas trees . |
| 30 | At least he 'd kept the vital figures away from her . |