Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He succeeded in producing the first development plan for Athens since it was liberated from the Turks , but in 1984 he was forced to resign over his proposal for establishing a green belt by bulldozing illegal slums in the suburbs . |
| 2 | He succeeded in reversing the downward trend of the railway 's fortunes , countering the advance of electric trams by introducing electric traction on suburban railway lines such as Liverpool to Southport , one of the earliest main-line electrification schemes in the country , completed in 1904 . |
| 3 | By this daring stroke he succeeded in abolishing the ultraviolet catastrophe . |
| 4 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 5 | He succeeded in isolating the essential germ-killing element , and created sulfanilamide , the first modern drug to work directly upon the cause of infection . |
| 6 | He led in amalgamating the Royal Clyde with the Royal Northern . |
| 7 | And he looks like remaining the only two- and four-wheeled world champion for quite some time … unless Joey Dunlop , Eddie Lawson or Wayne Gardner have other ideas ! |
| 8 | That evening he devoted to discussing the agreeable question of what he should wear for his triumphant entry into London . |
| 9 | While the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum , he helped in creating the new displays for the Museum 's collection of classical antiquities that had just come out of wartime storage . |
| 10 | As a boy of fifteen he had impressed his father , the Emperor Jehangir , with the taste he demonstrated in redesigning the Imperial apartments in Kabul . |
| 11 | YOUNG artist Christopher Kerwin shows off the picture and cup he collected after winning the over-14s section of Darlington Lions Club annual art competition . |
| 12 | The reason is that he began to seen the economic concepts on which the society of his time was based , such concepts as value , price , property , and above all , labour , as the nineteenth-century equivalent of religion . |
| 13 | He began by taking the wrong road out of Burford , then tried this lane to get back to the A40 . |
| 14 | But Wasa Kamel , the coordinator of the project , which is being masterminded by the UN 's Industrial Development Organisation ( UNIDO ) in Vienna , says he aims at helping the developing countries by finding new products fitting their needs . |
| 15 | The increases were generally expected by the industry , which knew Mr Lamont needed to recoup money he lost by scrapping the special car tax which until last year added ten per cent to the price of a new vehicle . |
| 16 | The risk that he took in bringing the whole Windsor Conference together was enormous . |
| 17 | He went from briefing the new president that evidence against Oswald was too weak for a conviction to insisting that Oswald was the man . |
| 18 | He felt like telling the old folk it was not New Year 's Eve , but he doubted if they would believe him . |
| 19 | But there was something about him which he attributed to finding the Holy Spirit . |
| 20 | He left without giving the little man a chance to reply . |
| 21 | It should be used as a platform from which to explore the different modes that he suggests of lessening the short-run myopia . |
| 22 | Of course , the moral or symbolic stature that he gained from making the right choice at the outset did not guarantee de Gaulle his triumphant arrival in North Africa in mid-1943 . |
| 23 | He concluded by reviewing the sexual properties of portliness , noting that , if you are fat enough , you can develop love-handles specially adapted for oral sex , as well as coitus . |
| 24 | He nudged by mentioning the similar item which had linked Maureen and Hunter-Blair . |
| 25 | His private emotions and idiosyncracies , and difficulties he experiences in internalizing the social norms of his community are his business . |