Example sentences of "[noun] that he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 2 | It seemed such an impossible feat to make the best of a bad deal that he made no attempt at it . |
| 3 | In fact the actor , who reassures fans that he has no plans to quit 90210 now that his movie career is under way , has a more than healthy respect for the opposite sex — a lot of it born out of his admiration at how his mother struggled through during the dark early years of his life . |
| 4 | Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles . |
| 5 | The Argentina captain said yesterday he was unrepentant , but added : ‘ If I have to say sorry I will , ’ for his remarks on Tuesday that he believed the draw was decided in advance , putting Argentina in the hardest group . |
| 6 | In practice it would be almost impossible to disprove a claim by the defendant that he had a licence but had lost it and had forgotten from which local taxation office it had been issued . |
| 7 | The Judge found in favour of Sergt. Kerr … but for the plaintiff against P. C. Neame for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment , assessing the damages at £100 with costs … it was alleged the plaintiff was struck by both police officers and severely handled in the street and in the Bridewell , with the result that he received an injury to his right eye which necessitated its removal in hospital … |
| 8 | The cast could n't have come from Stavanger 's teeth : he was wounded in the mouth by a piece of shrapnel during the war , and lost a good many teeth , with the result that he wore a plate with artificial teeth in both upper and lower jaws . |
| 9 | As erm as a doctor , Bill , I have ingrained on my heart Aneurin Bevan 's words when the National Health Service was introduced in this country by the post-war Labour government , against the wishes of my colleagues , and he commented that he would erm cross our palms with silver , and he did that very successfully , with the result that he stifled a lot of opposition amongst some very powerful people , and erm of course when you 're trying to introduce a new scheme such as this and you 're terribly keen that erm it should take off and be successful , you do , of course , cross palms with silver . |
| 10 | It was as commander of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards that he won the DSO at the Battle of Tumbledown during the Falklands campaign . |
| 11 | It is typical of Richard that he accepted the task with alacrity and succeeded with such brilliance that almost overnight he became recognized as a famous warrior . |
| 12 | It was when he finally reached the end of the turning by the Rotherhithe.Tunnel entrance that he saw the three standing together across the street . |
| 13 | It has come into my mind that he needs a wife , one of his own kind , to keep him company . |
| 14 | On November 6 , 1975 , we played support at St Martin 's School of Art to a band called Bazooka Joe — which included a young man called Stuart Goddard , later to become Adam Ant and so obsessed by punk that he has an almost complete set of Seditionaries clothing . |
| 15 | The Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze , said in Brussels that he had no specific details of the unrest but that any intervention by the security forces was highly regrettable . |
| 16 | Three weeks earlier they had devoted a page to the story that another of his girlfriends , actress Rebecca Broussard , aged twenty-six , was expecting his baby , revealing that he was ‘ excitedly looking forward to playing daddy , but the bed-jumping Joker has flatly told Rebecca that he had no intention of marrying her . ’ |
| 17 | He told the ECHO that he thought the teachers ' action which has left thousands of exam papers unopened , was a ‘ great tragedy ’ . |
| 18 | This was not Dickens ' fault that he changed the ending , he was practically forced to do it by a friend . |
| 19 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |
| 20 | It is in one such hall of study that he encounters the TA Commissioning course , which is examining the art of patrolling . |
| 21 | Lord Aldington , who lives at Knoll Farm , Aldington , Ashford , Kent , is claiming libel damages over allegations in a pamphlet that he arranged the repatriation of around 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs , knowing they would be massacred on their return . |
| 22 | Lord Aldington , former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , who lives at Knoll Farm , Aldington , Ashford , Kent , is claiming libel damages over allegations in a pamphlet that he arranged the repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs , knowing they would be massacred . |
| 23 | MacDonald 's reply — ‘ I explained my hopeless parlty. position if there were any resignations ’ — is a clear indication that he found the idea of a National Government distasteful ; indeed , that his position was likely to be ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 24 | In a clear indication that he favoured a future constitutional dispensation based on the concept of protected " group rights " , he declared that a new system would need to provide guarantees of protection against domination by any group , by means of constitutional checks and balances , a decentralization of power and " the requirement of consensus on controversial matters " . |
| 25 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 26 | He was guilty of blasphemy and could now be taken to the Roman Governor with the recommendation that he suffer the death penalty . |
| 27 | The LA has to be assured by the applicant that he understands the importance of the rules relating to drivers ' hours , records and tachograph requirements , rules which need careful study . |
| 28 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 29 | Samuel Pepys records purchasing a copy of the Essay on 15 May , 1668 , and it so pleased the Sovereign that he promoted the author from the Secretaryship of the Royal Society to the See of Chester . |
| 30 | Triumphantly he told the master of the horse that he had the solution to everything " in my back pocket . " |