Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith had a wide circle of friends who included the members of the locally influential Brigg family , Sir Isaac Holden , first MP for Keighley , John Bright , whose free-trade views he shared unreservedly , John Morley ( Viscount Morley of Blackburn ) , Sir Henry Roscoe , and , not least , Andrew Carnegie [ qq.v. ] , whom he considered the most remarkable man that he had ever met . |
| 2 | But what Sheriff Irvine Smith has , with compelling cause shown , denied us in his Introduction he has amply redeemed in the justiciary cases he has placed before us and in his commentary thereon . |
| 3 | Each Easter he made wonderful bejewelled eggs for the tsars or kings of Russia . |
| 4 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 5 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 6 | In due course he succeeded his father as king in Egypt , marrying his sister Isis . |
| 7 | In due course he calls witnesses — eye witnesses , police , inspectors from the AIB and others — to substantiate his account . |
| 8 | And in due course he came … |
| 9 | In due course he moved , like Dominic , to Bologna , from whose schools he was promoted chamber clerk to Pope Honorius III before 1224 . |
| 10 | they 've gave us since we 've been creating that much she 's had been in to see Mr she said and he says oh no he says er that 's not right Brenda , he says er mine are all guaranteed until they 're earning that money he says you ca n't just do it |
| 11 | He wins the pools and with that money he buys an isolated country cottage , where he plans to keep Miranda until she falls in love with him . |
| 12 | In the 1659 Parliament he sat for his old home town ; in one of his two recorded speeches he had to justify having arrested a leading Fifth-Monarchy man on the orders of the late lord protector . |
| 13 | She heard the sharp intake of breath ; what little patience he possessed had clearly vanished with her last smart remark . |
| 14 | The loss of such a man at most other clubs would have spelt disaster , but Chapman had foreseen the danger and the solid foundations he had built at the club enabled Arsenal to win another League Championship the following year . |
| 15 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 16 | In the political field he supplied munificent financial support to the Liberal Party and its numerous causes . |
| 17 | Mingled with the brimstone smell of burned powder he fancied that he could smell the perfume of roses from the Residency garden , pruned this year by musket fire . |
| 18 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
| 19 | It was deliberately dismissive , but a scorching anger rose in response to the searingly contemptuous look he gave her . |
| 20 | He argues for the classical form of government ; to rest on political apathy he believes ‘ is a way of preserving liberty by castrating it ’ . |
| 21 | However , Mr Yeltsin is still far from winning the two-thirds majority he needs to get a new constitution adopted . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't you hear from the tone of Holberg 's Epistle how little sympathy he had for her ! |
| 23 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 24 | ‘ Like Bogart , Steve brought himself to each part he played and something of each of them rubbed off on his personality . |
| 25 | The British , Commonwealth and European titles he has won since then were all taken while fighting in London . |
| 26 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 27 | And Finnegan spendin' what little money he has on drink , rollin' home at all hours of the night from the pubs in the village , drunk as a lord . |
| 28 | What little money he did have was spent on a record selected with extreme care which became , to his way of thinking , a possession close to his heart . |
| 29 | Will the Prime Minister therefore tell us what specific proposals he has made for supporting economic projects in the republics of the former Soviet Union , particularly in the distribution industries , which are obviously of basic importance to economic growth and to the development of markets ? |
| 30 | It is essential therefore , that you identify and appreciate the historian 's viewpoint , follow the individual steps in his arguments and pinpoint the specific reasons he offers for his views . |