Example sentences of "[art] [adj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the 15th he knocked it on to the green comfortably , but we had a long wait because poor old Tommy was in trouble again . |
| 2 | On the 15th he hit his drive such a prodigious distance that the one wag among the gallery suggested that drugs testing should be introduced at subsequent Matches . |
| 3 | Promoter Andy Norman is hailing the line-up at the National Indoor Arena as the finest he has assembled in 20 years — and the best anywhere in the world this winter . |
| 4 | Kalmia augustifolia had spread rapidly , being left undisturbed to sucker , a method of propagation he considered better than by seed ; a Cephalanthus occidentalis , the largest he had seen , ‘ liked the situation well enough ’ and Itea virginica was ‘ in the greatest vigour ’ . |
| 5 | The least he deserved in return was that Harry should tell him all he knew . |
| 6 | It 's a relatively large sum , but Simon 's solicitor says it 's the least he deserves . |
| 7 | Tait , has now won nine Test caps to add to the eight he won in Rugby Union . |
| 8 | During the 1640s he commanded ships on trading voyages to Massachusetts , in association with his brother , who had returned home in 1643 . |
| 9 | In those of the 1640S he follows , though with less psychological insight and power of characterization , the way pointed by Monteverdi away from the ceremonial princely opera toward what one might call dramatic solo opera for the larger public : drama expressed mostly in expressive recitative monologue and lively recitative dialogue , with the brief ‘ arias ’ usually left to the minor characters . |
| 10 | In the thirties he took up abstract painting then in 1942 he was commissioned as a war artist , painting the bombed Coventry Cathedral . |
| 11 | In the thirties he took up abstract painting then in 1942 he was commissioned as a war artist , painting the bombed Coventry Cathedral . |
| 12 | Through the Thirties he centralized his activities on London and , in 1935 , had his first major success with the spectacular revue Go With The Girls . |
| 13 | To the rich he said : |
| 14 | He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away . |
| 15 | The journey was the longest he had ridden for several years and he was feeling his age . |
| 16 | The longest he had ever stayed off was six months , at the first attempt . |
| 17 | The night seemed the longest he had endured . |
| 18 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 19 | His body took it in , took her in , and the desire which reared in him was the strongest he had ever experienced . |
| 20 | The youngest he managed to pull was just seventeen . |
| 21 | Drawn into the complex political world of the 490s he showed an interest in the arianism of his fellow monarchs , as well as in the catholicism of Chlothild , and some members of his court were actually baptized as arians ; he himself , although he may have already been converted to Christianity , did not commit himself firmly either to catholicism or arianism , although he certainly showed an interest in the views of the heretics . |
| 22 | And , anyway , it was from the British he made his money , selling them scrap iron during the war , so it will be an extra pleasure to make him cough up that sort of loot . ’ |
| 23 | Like the British he preferred to exercise power without visible institutional support . |
| 24 | While in the United States in the 1890s he had been heavily influenced by the Populist and Democratic Parties ' assault on the Gold Standard . |
| 25 | During the 1890s he attended dinners in Paris , moved in informed circles and had many friends in influential positions , amongst them the statesman Clemenceau ; he read newspapers , subscribed to journals and amassed a huge library ; he also kept abreast of political and cultural matters , having pronounced views on the Dreyfus Affair and initiating a subscription to acquire Monet 's Olympia for the nation . |
| 26 | In the 1890s he participated in the reorganization of Argentina 's external debt and in the 1900s restored Argentina 's credit in London . |
| 27 | In the 1890s he turned against this whole programme in disgust , realizing that there was no likelihood of fossil evidence coming to light . |
| 28 | He was an original , Mungo decided ; one of the few he had ever met . |
| 29 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 30 | He hated having to trust anyone , but Hitch was one of the few he did . |