Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 2 | Johnson was human too : in writing to Mrs Thrale he contradicted this point and stated more correctly that both towns had separate civil and academic identities . |
| 3 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 4 | His job is to clean along the paths of the Zoo and that thing he pushes is for the rubbish he collects , and along its side he has two brooms and a shovel . |
| 5 | If by next spring he becomes this country 's first heavyweight holder for nearly 100 years , he intends to make the challengers come to him . |
| 6 | Upstairs in the bedroom he found empty whisky bottles littering the floor . |
| 7 | At his own expense he spent some months in England attached to units of the British Army for training . |
| 8 | He used to trap animals and collect them and then one day instead of going out trapping animals he wrote this poem instead and ever afterwards he wrote poems instead of collecting animals . |
| 9 | With straining eyes he watched small fragments , meaningless to the lay eye , delicately extricated from the tangle of earth about the roots and the soft turf beneath them , cased in plastic , and labelled . |
| 10 | From Berwickshire and Bathgate he found rare specimens of at least four fossil land amphibians including the earliest known ancestor of frogs and salamanders ; millipedes and the earliest known harvestman spider . |
| 11 | Chelsea , the club he joined four days later , are already paying Swindon 120,000 pounds in compensation for Hoddle the manager , but they 'd offered nothing for Hoddle the player , threatening to withdraw his playing contract rather than part with any more money . |
| 12 | As a member of the Historic Rally Car Club he gained 1st place in his class and 11th overall in the series of eight rallies held at Longleat . |
| 13 | Mr Clark admitted at the Old Bailey he encouraged British firms to sell sanction-busting military equipment to Iraq . |
| 14 | An intensely dutiful , rather dour man , he was plagued by eye troubles and as a result he shunned fashionable society . |
| 15 | As a result he gets more exercise and is generally fitter and healthier . |
| 16 | In his mind he spoke another girl 's name ; a girl long dead , and asked her to forgive him . |
| 17 | By adopting this method of study he wasted less time and it also enabled him to learn more efficiently . |
| 18 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |
| 19 | During the interview he said all killing was wrong , but added that there was now ‘ increasing fear of paramilitary activities ’ in the Catholic community . |
| 20 | With Andy he climbed five routes : Relative Ease HVS , Like Father Like Son E4 6a , Family Affair E3 5c , Bloodling E3 6a and Genetic Edge , E3 6a . |
| 21 | Is the Minister aware that the cracker he pulls this Christmas will probably have been packaged by a home worker , as will the Christmas cards and gift tags ? |
| 22 | As both composer and critic he touched both sides of the coin : A climate of receptivity is what the artist most desires . |
| 23 | Chris Ivan said to me , he said Cliff wanted us to go and have a drink he said when we 've finished work on a Friday he said last night , I tell you , I said I said no , no I did n't ! |
| 24 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 25 | Last Saturday he made another debut for Grove Steels in the Vaux Bluebell Over 40s League . |
| 26 | Robson , 35 , has not seen first-team action for five months due to hamstring and sciatica problems , but last Saturday he played 80 minutes of an A team game . |
| 27 | In advance of the fighting he warned both sides not to take military action , even though Egypt 's prior closing of the Straits of Tiran was widely regarded as itself an act of aggression . |
| 28 | To convert the principle into practice he needed detailed instructions from the centre . |
| 29 | His almost pathological dread of producing a legato line means that instead of drawing us a picture of clear , flowing melodies he leaves little join-up-the-dots type sketches with the notes separated from each other by wide open spaces which even the generous resonance of St Peter 's , Waltrop ( near Dortmund ) can not adequately fill . |
| 30 | With a growled exclamation against her lips he tightened one hand in the silky blonde strands , and slid the other down to trace lightly the hollow at the base of her throat , then lower to skim the striped silk of her blouse over the swell of her breasts , an expert , fleeting exploration which drew a gasp of reaction from her yet left her taut and shivering in frustrated anger … |