Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He became increasingly interested in the work of the American engineer F. W. Taylor on techniques for increasing productivity . |
| 4 | He became politically inactive in the new century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He became more active in the business again , and I grew up learning the ropes . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He seemed physically uncomfortable in the cockpit . |
| 10 | He seemed especially interested in the times he had Vulcan out at night , as he did so often last year . |
| 11 | ‘ Because he seemed fairly interested in the police when he arrived . ’ |
| 12 | He seems completely secure in the knowledge that I 'm far too soppy to do him any harm . |
| 13 | He seems very thin in the middle of all the tubes and monitors . |
| 14 | He was obviously quite excited at the prospect of an end to his life of celibacy , but remained a perfect gentleman even though he went very blue in the face in his excitement . |
| 15 | Impatient of court ceremonial and indifferent to the trappings of majesty , he felt most comfortable in the hard-wearing clothes of the huntsman . |
| 16 | He lay curiously content in the warm bed for some minutes , then frowned . |
| 17 | He looked much younger in the dark bar ; his gentle , chivalrous face smiling . |
| 18 | I do n't think he does too much in the furniture ! |
| 19 | It seems clear from the case of Herdman v IRC ( 1969 ) 45 TC 394 that if a taxpayer not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom makes a transfer of an asset with a view to avoiding UK tax he could be liable under s739 when he becomes ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | Imagination " stirrid bi grace " is the faculty he names as active in the second stage : " for whi , is opened in beholdynge of oure lordes manhede " ( 30.103r. – 253 ) . |
| 21 | That little wanton who had so suited and amused him had all the qualities necessary for a love affair , but none of those he calculated as obligatory in the girl that he might marry some distant day . |
| 22 | The most obvious manifestation of this came when he remained almost immobile in the centre of the ring while Biggs picked him off with jabs from long range . |