Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Castle of Sadaba , Saragossa , and one of El Cid 's strongholds from which he rode forth to attack the Moorish cities and castles . |
| 2 | And while he has successfully offended the doctrinaire Protestants , he does not seem to have pleased the Pope . |
| 3 | It is therefore curious that although the author 's original impetus for writing was his involvement in the controversial treatment of recurrent spontaneous miscarriage by immunotherapy , he has largely ignored the topical clinical arena . |
| 4 | De Matteo ( 1977 ) has argued that one has to understand sign language in terms of its visual imagery and he has particularly highlighted the syntactic devices used in ASL which derive from a visual representation of events . |
| 5 | He has been accused of indulging in fallacious argument , l of selecting data and omitting sources , and he has allegedly ignored the great accumulation of new studies in the 1970s and 1980s that might have refuted some of his arguments . |
| 6 | To most Englishmen such a conjunction will be unbelievable ; but , on returning to England , he may find himself wondering how he has finally accepted the Spanish view . |
| 7 | He has since lost the Australian , French and US Open championships . |
| 8 | He has already applied the fractal technique to video data . |
| 9 | Murnin is still on crutches after the much publicised incident involving controversial Crusaders star Kirk Hunter — but he has already forgiven the big man for the tackle which finished his career . |
| 10 | Jimmy smashed the previous British melon record by nearly eight pounds , but he wo n't be tucking into his prize exhibit — he has already raffled the mouth-watering treat to raise money for the British Heart Foundation . |
| 11 | He has also examined the well-publicised cluster of leukaemia cases around the Dounreay nuclear plant and concludes it is likely to have been caused by exposure to incoming oil workers rather than radiation from the plant . |
| 12 | His best standard Marathon time is 3.06 and he has also completed the Dusi Canoe Marathon and three Iron Man Events . |
| 13 | He has also investigated the moral and play behaviours of children . |
| 14 | Dr. Elliott detects in it ‘ a desire by the composer to accommodate progressive ideas about clear word-setting and harmonic , chordal idioms ’ : he has elsewhere invoked the violent and repressive political climate of the time , and seen an attempt by Carver to compromise — in a period of Protestant fundamentalism which had limited the formerly sumptuous musical presentations in the Chapel Royal to plainchant and Faburden improvised upon it — with the strictly harmonically-conceived music of English Reformation composers . |
| 15 | He has now produced the right package to put this country back on course . ’ |
| 16 | He has recently received the following letter from Paul : |
| 17 | But as we have seen , he referred to the Duddon valley as ‘ the darling of my heart ’ — he says in the Guide that Mr. West ‘ contented himself by speaking of the scenery of easy access from the public roads , for he has entirely omitted the vast and romantic wilds which lie between the sea and the chain of lofty mountains , beginning at Coniston and ending at Lows Water — who shall traverse Seathwaite , Eskdale Wastdale , Ennerdale and Ennersaledale , and not be ready to acknowledge that the Western side of his tour , though probably less beautiful , is infinitely more magnificent than the Eastern side ? ’ |
| 18 | The story opens with Gael facing a libel suit for his latest novel in which he has unwittingly described the literary hack Howard Cutting . |
| 19 | Does he not also accept that much of his programme was going to come about in any event , that he has deliberately delayed the urban programme announcement , that six of our valleys are still not designated areas under the Act and that a proper revitalisation of the valleys would require massive and genuinely new investment spread over at least eight years , not advertising hype spread over three ? |
| 20 | Courtney practised in Harley Street as a gynaecologist even though he has never passed the required exams . |
| 21 | He 'd nearly blown the whole thing then . |
| 22 | He 'd even searched the vacant lots . |
| 23 | I taxed him about it once when he 'd just dinged the rear corner of a new Porsche . |
| 24 | Her expression froze at that , and his heart seemed to sink into his guts as he realised he 'd almost said the wrong thing . |
| 25 | Matt said afterwards he 'd half expected the whole thing would turn out to be a wild goose chase and I told him I thought the same . |
| 26 | Yanto 's head throbbed abominably as he cycled slowly to work the following morning , but at least it was Saturday , he told himself thankfully . |
| 27 | another winner yesterday was Gary Chapman of Chinnor … he roared home to take the chequered flag in the latest round of the formula one super karting championship at Little Rissington in Gloucestershire … |
| 28 | When he stepped forward to use the other hand , something cracked into the small of his back , and he stumbled . |
| 29 | He began softly to mutter the final act of contrition to himself . |
| 30 | He enjoyed gently mocking the established heraldic writers . |