Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stan Cardwell MBE , co-founder of the North-East ramblers ' association , said : ‘ His style was one of cooperation , not confrontation , and through this he made many friends , not least among the farming community , where he was regarded highly for his expertise on rights of way matters . |
| 2 | Over time his sermons moved away from emotional appeals to more reasoned ones ; in this he had much in common with the British ‘ gentleman evangelist ’ of his day , like Brownlow North [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | I did n't say anything , though the way he had said it made it clear he expected some comment . |
| 4 | During 1939–44 he spent several years teaching in North America , at Hartford Seminary and at Fisk University , and he received an honorary DD from Wesley College , Winnipeg . |
| 5 | When news of this war reached Henry Ii in the autumn of 1184. he summoned all three to England . |
| 6 | Even a courtier admitted that although he was tactful and judicious he possessed less character , less resolution and less intelligence than his father . |
| 7 | In the two summers of ‘ 43 and ‘ 44 he recorded some 32 first ascents on the Ben , soloing 26 of them . |
| 8 | We were convinced he had all his mates round during the day . |
| 9 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 10 | He desperately wanted to show Becky how much he appreciated all she had done , and settled for bouncing up and down on the corner of the bed |
| 11 | he 's got two of them up there , engines and the big bikes so I 've got ta ring him up and see how much he wants some bits for . |
| 12 | On Dec. 7 he put this intention into action by visiting Amritsar , accompanied by his most senior ministers , where he received a warm welcome from large crowds . |
| 13 | I was glad he did that . |
| 14 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 15 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 16 | He may have had a sixth sense about the presence of some stranger in the house ; more likely he saw some physical evidence — a coat , a hat — belonging to a person he knew . |
| 17 | Where blest he woos some black Aspasia 's grace , |
| 18 | During the 1940s he directed many films for and British National . |
| 19 | He was sitting down then all of sudden he had this bottle of scotch and he told bring some whisky down . |
| 20 | Via the dynamic of the perverse , Faustus violates Christianity in the name and image of Christ ; assimilating Christ to his opposite he discloses that opposite within Christ . |
| 21 | Like many great villains , Daine must have no conception of how ludicrous he appeared much of the time . |
| 22 | ‘ Make sure he does some homework today . ’ |
| 23 | eats , I 'm sure he eats all the wrong stuff you know ? |
| 24 | So how can the simple walker make sure he avoids such an unpleasant confrontation with a dangler ? |
| 25 | He decided , to make sure he had this clear . |
| 26 | ‘ There is such a sense of loss , ’ she said , looking at him to be sure he understood this . |
| 27 | Make sure he drinks enough fluids , but not too much tea or coffee . |
| 28 | I 'm not sure he understands all that it involves . |
| 29 | Okay , so you would make sure he knew that . |
| 30 | Yo , I 'll have to make sure he takes that off the bill too ! |