Example sentences of "he [verb] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made several of the two-week journeys to northern Russia aboard the sweeper , HMS Hussar . |
| 2 | He commissioned much of the interior decoration from Alfred Stevens [ q.v. ] : there was a special relationship between patron and sculptor , under which Stevens was given a very free hand . |
| 3 | Contrary to older views — which saw him as out of favour in papal government under Celestine III ( from the Boboni family ) — he signs most of the papal privileges in the seven years between 1191 and 1197 . |
| 4 | He produced many of the beautiful hybrid varieties that are still sought after by tropical waterlily enthusiasts — although now devoted tropical water-lily growers are developing new strains every year . |
| 5 | He avoided any of the hard decisions that would have to be made if he wanted to stabilise the industry at about its current size , as promised by the hon. Member for Holborn and St.Pancras . |
| 6 | He also said he expected some of the banned garages and testers to appeal against the rulings , and meanwhile they were allowed to continue MOT testing . |
| 7 | This is one of the main reasons for the statement that an engineer can only do his own job well if he understands those of the other functions in his company . |
| 8 | He announced this to the Liberal ministers who had once again congregated in 10 , Downing Street . |
| 9 | He lacked many of the plainer necessities of life , and of ambition he was totally innocent . |
| 10 | He read some of the German books , soothed by her solicitude and fancying for a time that he really was being impregnated with ideas about the Wall . |
| 11 | I do not know how he reconciles that with the 59 per cent . |
| 12 | However , he tried some of the journalistic pieces in what was to be the second posthumous volume . |
| 13 | In turning the tables on Einstein he used another of the latter 's ideas . |
| 14 | He dismissed some of the popular images of the Specials which he said were off the mark . |
| 15 | He had to slice up dead rabbits and pick the heads off snails as he visited some of the top kitchens in the county . |
| 16 | He says some of the M-forty accidents have been a result of drivers suffering from fatigue . |
| 17 | Instead he received all of the 3,813 papers , but each of them at a reduced value . |
| 18 | And he describes some of the new episodes as rubbish : |
| 19 | There he photographed most of the famous tourist attractions and bought home around 50 superb colour transparencies . |
| 20 | There he photographed most of the famous tourist attractions and bought home around 50 superb colour transparencies . |
| 21 | In 1826 , with the passage of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Act , he went with George Stephenson to Liverpool , where he prepared most of the working drawings and plans for this railway from Stephenson 's rough sketches . |
| 22 | And he noted some of the superhuman attributes they were supposed to have developed — like unnatural strength , invulnerability , the power of flight and some others . |
| 23 | In May 1824 , however , before moving to Shifnal , he auctioned some of the natural history specimens . |
| 24 | All of us watched as he poured some of the clear liquid into each of our bowls and then began kneading the tobacco to put in a chillim . |
| 25 | The tourist will rent a small receiver for around £2 and press a button as he approaches any of the major buildings and monuments , where a small transmitter will then spout cultural , historical , artistic and commercial information at him in a choice of Italian , German , English or Spanish , at any hour of the day or night . |
| 26 | Although he welcomed many of the central themes in the Government White Paper , Choice and Diversity , he had reservations about the way the status of teachers was being undermined . |
| 27 | In his Autobiography Nkrumah adroitly sidesteps the question , ack-nowledging that he admired some of the British Communist Party leaders and rather unconvincingly declaring that he had a blank party card among his possessions . |
| 28 | ATrotskyist ‘ dur ’ of the old school , Healy 's finest hour was the Socialist Labour League , into which he recruited some of the best British communists disillusioned with the Soviet Union after Hungary . |
| 29 | He followed this with the unkindest cut of all : ‘ Or is it that he is afraid I will ask him for money ? ’ |
| 30 | He cites some of the outstanding performances in C&P — ‘ and we have quite a number to our credit . |