Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 2 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 3 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 4 | When they visited Texas he asked why the young men seemed so gloomy when there was so much to be happy about , and in Cambridge he publicly embraced his old friend , Conrad Aiken , moving Aiken almost to tears . |
| 5 | Guiltily he wiped away the girlish tear-stains with the back of his hand . |
| 6 | Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables . |
| 7 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 8 | A friend and follower of William Blake in his youth , Palmer was living in great poverty when he received the commission to illustrate Pictures From Italy after Stanfield 's defection ; time was short , and he provided not the 12 plates originally planned but four vignettes engraved on wood . |
| 9 | He drew back the groaning bolts and turned the rusty iron ring , and the door opened inwards with a protesting creak . |
| 10 | He stood beside the broken glass of his front door as he described how the white neighbours — assisted by two West Indian girls — hauled him into the court and beat him . |
| 11 | If he behaved normally the other boys stepped back and did not respond . |
| 12 | He played down the adverse conditions that had led to low lambing rates by pointing to the limit of 205,000 tonnes that could be sent to Europe under the voluntary restraint agreement . |
| 13 | He fended off the awkward questions diplomatically . |
| 14 | He shows how the same events can be given at least three explanations , each related to different facts , or to the same facts differently interpreted . |
| 15 | Schafer ( 1981 ) offers a useful historical survey in which he shows how the founding fathers of modern linguistics , de Saussure and Bloomfield , reacting against the total neglect of speech in the pre-existing traditions of rhetoric and grammar , asserted the primacy of speech . |
| 16 | After an impressive first year as a factory rider , Zeelenberg was in big demand but he turned down the lucrative offers without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 17 | He cuts out the middle men and women — the dreaded parents — and goes straight for the hearts and minds of kids . |
| 18 | He recollects vividly the outstanding singles performances of Bill Thompson and Diane Underwood and with the final match standing at 2-all his team went on to dominate the doubles and lift the trophy . |
| 19 | He hunted down the Breton forces , executing all those who fell into his hands and organizing retaliatory raids on Geoffrey 's estates . |
| 20 | and he observed how the oaken doors |
| 21 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 22 | He draws out the richest tones that he is capable of here . |
| 23 | Then he thought how the long streets were dotted with lamps , and how the peaceful stars were shining overhead ( 5 ) . |
| 24 | [ Dombey and Son , Ch 16 ] The artlessness of the child 's mind is reflected partly in the repetitions " watching it and watching everything " and " deepen , deepen , deepen " ; in the use of common words , especially those with monosyllabic stems : " he thought how the long streets were dotted with lamps " , " and now he thought how black it was " ; and in the way the cohesion of the passage rests on the subject pronoun he and the conjunction and . |
| 25 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 26 | By the beginning of 1939 , he saw only the unpleasant alternatives of uninterrupted decay or some form of authoritarian political leadership which might arrest it artificially , and exactly a year later he described the fatal weaknesses of Western democracy , and how the progress of industrialization was creating an apathetic citizenry — the kind of people who could only be aroused by despots like Hitler . |
| 27 | He knew where the nocturnal gatherings were held : |
| 28 | He looked like a buccaneer of old except that he wore not the wide-sleeved shirts and breeches of the past but the rough working clothes that had been her father 's . |
| 29 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |
| 30 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |