Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's good though that is. was running along a track at a constant speed he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark . |
| 2 | He painted this picture of his father-in-law : ‘ Over his kindred he held a wary and chary care , which bountifully was expressed when occasion so required , reputing himself not only principal of the family but a general father to them all … as for frank , well ordered and continual hospitality he outwent all show of competence ; spare but discreet of speech : better conceiving than delivering ; equally stout and kind , not upon lightness of humour , but upon soundness of judgement : inclined to commiseration , ready to relieve . ’ |
| 3 | Some might worry that he is allowing the Californians to influence him too much , but I ca n't help feeling that so long as he manages to stay on his horse he remains the best sort of Englishman aborad . |
| 4 | As soon as he got to the loose box where they had the horse he pulled a little bit of stick about six inches long out of his pocket and threw it right up into the manger . |
| 5 | As a young doctor in Leiden he paid a seminal visit to the neuroanatomist WJH Nauta , at that time developing a revolutionary anatomical technique for investigating the nervous system by staining degenerating fibres cut off from their parent cell-bodies . |
| 6 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |
| 7 | In an experiment he taught the same period to two groups . |
| 8 | As a consequence of this initial perception he felt the general awareness of all staff had to be built — and built rapidly . |
| 9 | mummy he had the last cherry bakewell |
| 10 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 11 | In describing laboratory methods he offers a clear account of the underlying scientific principles and practical techniques , followed by relevant material from case histories and objective assessment of advantages , limitations and future possibilities . |
| 12 | He had several pets : a grey cat Maria , Shep the sheepdog who went everywhere with him over the fields , several birds including a lame pigeon that he loved to tease Maria with ; and one spring he reared a wild duck from the egg of an abandoned nest and was upset for weeks after the October day it finally flew away . |
| 13 | This spring he faced a preliminary inquiry in Ontario , where the Crown was required to show that there was sufficient evidence to warrant a full trial on the charges , and , subsequently , the accused was ordered to stand trial on a number of charges , including criminal negligence causing bodily harm and aggravated sexual assault . |
| 14 | Short , playing black , dominated the game throughout , and at the end of the first session of play on Tuesday he had a clear advantage in an endgame with superior pieces and a very strong passed pawn . |
| 15 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 16 | After all , if he does n't like the future he has the personal possibility — and responsibility of moving to another outfit whose potential he thinks is greater . |
| 17 | To his straw-coloured hair and blue eyes he added an obvious desire to please , at least to be agreeable , attributes which were rare amongst the Glynns . |
| 18 | In the woman 's eyes he saw a like recognition and knew his senses did not deceive him . |
| 19 | With narrow lips and eyes he faced the strolling irony of the afternoon crowds , the young , the robed incurious foreigners . |
| 20 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
| 21 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |
| 22 | While in Rouen he visits the Cimetière Monumental the year after Gustave 's father and sister were buried there , and approves its innovative policy of allowing families to buy freehold plots . |
| 23 | Despite Allied opposition he reconstituted the expanded Polish territory under his control as an independent kingdom linked to Russia through the person of the monarch . |
| 24 | He kissed her then , his mouth warm and sensitive to her every response , and when she put her arms around his neck he gave a hoarse inhalation of breath , his arms tightening around hers , and the kiss took fire , grew passionate , their bodies pressing together , harder , harder … |
| 25 | In The Form of Living he charts the sacramental understanding at the heart of the Mass , as a whole way of life and perceived growth in consciousness ; his Meditations on the Passion engage with different stages of such growth and , indeed , are designed to act as catalysts for its progress . |
| 26 | He was returned to the Bocardo Jail , from whose roof he watched the painful death by burning of Latimer and Ridley . |
| 27 | As a result he joined the Royal Manor of Portland Athletics Club and has since run in several races for the club in the Dorset Road Racing League , although he has yet to catch up with his friend Tony Coleman from B40 Workshop ! |
| 28 | As a result he did a French translation of The Happy Hypocrite which was published in 1904 by the Mercure de France , illustrated with a caricature of Boulestin by Max ( Boulestin had some difficulty in convincing the Mercure 's editor that Max Beerbohm actually existed and was not an invention of his own ) . |
| 29 | Although Fenton was active in research he made no great discoveries . |
| 30 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |