Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he said " Give us free speech " in the first number of The Polar Star , he made plain one of the two main things which Russia lacked . |
| 2 | When Dr A B Granville published his famous and best-selling guidebook , The Spas of England in 1841 , he made very clear in the opening chapters of his mammoth work his distaste for what he regarded as ‘ the lower orders of society ’ . |
| 3 | In his interviews , he plays too much off the back foot , letting the Dimblebys and Waldens bully him . |
| 4 | Whilst sociological analysis is basic within Kuhn 's account , he offers very little in the way of sociological theory and offers no suggestions of how acceptable and unacceptable ways of reaching a consensus are to be distinguished . |
| 5 | Had n't he heard as much from The Man himself often enough ? |
| 6 | He became immediately aware of the developing cultural life taking place on the island and , along with his wife , Irene , taught , lectured and exhibited work alongside their Puerto Rican colleagues . |
| 7 | He became increasingly interested in the work of the American engineer F. W. Taylor on techniques for increasing productivity . |
| 8 | On reflection , however , he became increasingly puzzled by the mysterious young lady . |
| 9 | In 1853 he became a partner in Joseph Crosfield & Son ; and after the death of Morland and George 's move to London in 1875 , he became solely responsible for the firm . |
| 10 | Wh when he went into erm , when he went into Strasbourg with the garrison , he was very well received , because he was an officer , he was a gentleman , he was a musician , he was a composer , and he became very friendly with the Mayor of Strasbourg , whose name was Dietrich a very German sounding name , but do n't forget that Strasbourg is very near to the German border . |
| 11 | He became politically inactive in the new century . |
| 12 | When he was made redundant and no longer had this outlet for the expression of his masculinity , he became less confident in the caring aspects of his personality , almost as if afraid he would become all woman . |
| 13 | He became more active in the business again , and I grew up learning the ropes . ’ |
| 14 | Man 's increasing domestication meant he became more interested in the appearance of his home , and in the materials he wore to keep out the cold and wet . |
| 15 | To Merrill , he became more human by the minute as her imagination pictured Luke , the boy , then Luke in his early twenties trying to harness his self-confessed high-flown ideas to the practicalities of his craft . |
| 16 | He got quite angry at the impossibility of Clarissa having given any such instructions . |
| 17 | Well actually a girl friend of mine came round here yesterday , oh , lunch timeish was it , and erm , Henry forget his ball , he got so excited of the though of going out he put it down in the hall , came here and was thoroughly miserable all the way round , without his ball his lost , you know , a dog walk is n't a dog walk for Henry . |
| 18 | He looks perfectly enormous under the spots . |
| 19 | ‘ He looks very comfortable on the ball and scored us a fabulous goal which set up the win . |
| 20 | He looks very quiet at the moment . |
| 21 | Onstage , he adopts a JJ Burnel bass machine hunch ; offstage , he looks constantly bewildered by the whole thing . |
| 22 | Onstage , he adopts a JJ Burnel bass machine hunch ; offstage , he looks constantly bewildered by the whole thing . |
| 23 | From 1823 onwards he built over twenty in the region , a number of them for the commissioners for building new churches established under the Million Pound Act , and in 1829 he was appointed surveyor to York Minster . |
| 24 | A friend asked the executive what he found so absorbing about the man 's performance . |
| 25 | At a news conference on Sept. 12 held to coincide with an emergency meeting of pro-Israel lobby groups in Washington , Bush said that he had " worn out the telephone " in lobbying Republican senators for their support in securing a delay which he regarded as crucial to the peace process , but that he was " up against some powerful political forces " . |
| 26 | Sir John had identified a great number of passages which he regarded as objectionable from the government viewpoint , but I suspect he recognised early on that there was nothing of a very secret nature to conceal and what the government sought to suppress were the comments made by Crossman and others about senior civil servants . |
| 27 | Typically , he drew as much from the personality of each bird as from the relative characteristics of a particular species . |
| 28 | Little or nothing escapes his eye and that makes any book he writes doubly valuable to the serious students of railway history . |
| 29 | He has very few of the traditional trappings of the successful captain of industry . |
| 30 | He stands disconcertingly close to the action , hands deep in his pockets , weight well back on his heels . |