Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 2 | In 1895 he entered the alkali business . |
| 3 | In April 1895 he discussed the construction of the Bat with Otto Lilienthal , the German hang-gliding pioneer , and learned a great deal about the practical problems of controlling hang-gliders in the air . |
| 4 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 5 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 6 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 7 | In place of this he asserts the rights of members of society to exercise supervision , as trustees of the property of the people , over economic and enterprise management , and to judge management performance . |
| 8 | In this he recognizes the same problem which faces the insider/ethnographer , for he clearly understands that pretence , deception , and bizarre social drama play a large part in police culture and accepts this will be difficult to research . |
| 9 | Within this he pinned the official announcement that sentence of death had been carried out . |
| 10 | In this he had the agreement of the ‘ new philosophers ’ of his century . |
| 11 | By this he meant the career structures and sheer institutional inertia which kept thousands of the industry 's boffins stuck to their nuclear portfolios . |
| 12 | With this he struck the first blow , and broke it in striking . ’ |
| 13 | The Colonel inspected the guard and then received from the architects a gold key inscribed " Stockport Grammar School , 1487 " ; with this he unlocked the west door and declared the buildings open . |
| 14 | With this he faced the world , soon gravitating to Soho and the French pub , where he spent his last pennies . |
| 15 | As well as this he mentions the issue of settling for half , ‘ Now we settle for half , and I like it better . ’ |
| 16 | In this he initiated the Great Debate by exhorting teachers to ‘ satisfy parents and industry that what you are doing meets their requirements and the needs of their children ’ . |
| 17 | Bartlett suggests that the individual has ‘ an overmastering tendency simply to get a general impression of the whole ; and on the basis of this he constructs the probable detail ’ ( 1932 : 206 ) . |
| 18 | By this he means the degree to which an individual wants and chooses to engage in certain specified behaviour is low . |
| 19 | From this he calculated the time it would take a sated bat to starve to death , the time it would take an empty bat to starve to death , and all intermediates . |
| 20 | After this he joined the fire service and works today for the Shropshire Fire Brigade . |
| 21 | After this he ranked the great road north to Barnet , then that to Kent and those to Chelmsford and Uxbridge . |
| 22 | From this he reckoned the underground passage was now clear of the house foundations and heading out towards the outer fence . |
| 23 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |
| 24 | In 1876 he said the nationality problem in Eastern Europe was not ‘ worth the healthy bones of a Pomeranian musketeer ’ . |
| 25 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 26 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 27 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 28 | In 1540 he transformed the office of Wards , formed in 1503 , into the Court of Wards , to which was joined the office of Liveries in 1542 . |
| 29 | He was particularly interested in infectious diseases and public health , and in 1881 he took the Cambridge University diploma in public health . |
| 30 | He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age . |