Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led him to see that , that only one thing which can begin to come to the rescue of human beings in this situation , and that is universal love , and on that basis he saw , almost instantaneously , that war , that violence , that coldness in personal relations even , are morally intolerable . |
| 2 | This led him to assert that , in spite of ‘ the gross and grievous abominations ’ of Rome , ‘ yet touching those main parts of Christian truth wherein they constantly still persist , we gladly acknowledge them to be the family of Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 3 | This made him feel good . |
| 4 | Suddenly he was unsure and this made him feel afraid . |
| 5 | Remorse over this made him fall ill , and he died within a matter of months to be succeeded in his office by his son Henri ( 1767–1840 ) . |
| 6 | This caused him to invent Ambivalent Music , which you ca n't quite tell if you are listening to or not ( see Ambulance house music … ) |
| 7 | This allows him to supervise all the family 's vast landholdings in the delta . |
| 8 | When a judge , particularly one with Lord Scarman 's breadth of mind , is appointed to inquire into an outbreak of violence and serious disorders on the streets of Brixton and the policing of the area , it is unrealistic to expect him to avoid any recommendations of a political nature as to the causes . |
| 9 | His entire book is devoted to ways of improving the proportion of the ink that is devoted to conveying aspects of the data , and of erasing chartjunk ; this leads him to suggest some simplification of boxplots , for example . |
| 10 | She might secretly find this tall , elegant man extremely disturbing , but she was n't prepared to let him guess that fact . |
| 11 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |
| 12 | This means he gets physical possession of the goods but you keep their legal title . |
| 13 | By this means he injects new life into his relationship with God . |
| 14 | In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department . |
| 15 | JON SECADA is not afraid to admit he feels guilty about his soaraway success . |
| 16 | This suggests he has some difficulty in distinguishing sounds . |
| 17 | It is not blackmail where the accused believes he has reasonable grounds for making the demand and believes the use of menaces is a proper means of reinforcing the demand . |
| 18 | It 's hard to imagine him manoeuvring hefty cargoes through Le Sentier 's teeming streets , but that is how he makes his living . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's great to see him looking sharp and hungry for goals . ’ |
| 20 | Some of Lovins 's old colleagues will be frankly unhappy to see him laying such stress on ‘ the nation ’ as a subgroup of humanity . |
| 21 | All the pine fittings , the Habitat china , the split-level cooker ( catch his mother leaving the slightest speck of human-looking grease on it ! ) the vast expanse of lawn stretching away there outside the window for yard after smooth yard : it all made him feel sick . |
| 22 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 23 | Three counts against , then , and all urged him to resist this daemonic demand for sex . |
| 24 | Police were called but arrived too late to stop him mugging 60-year-old Rose McDevitt , who was knocked to the floor and robbed of her handbag as she waited for the lift . |
| 25 | ‘ I felt awful letting him walk all that way to the station last night . ’ |
| 26 | But towards the end of the second or fourth repeat he made some small alteration in the ports de bras so that the dancer could move easily into the next sentence . |
| 27 | Serafin knows now why Summerchild was so reluctant to let him see this place and so anxious to make him settle for the dingy remoteness of Northumberland Avenue . |
| 28 | Mr Brownlow , fortunately , was able to persuade him to abandon this wild idea . |
| 29 | He was among the last representatives of this kind of Anglo-French noble before the Hundred Years War , and the peace that subsisted between 1303 and 1324 enabled him to remain loyal to both his overlords . |
| 30 | The young veteran Ronald Ridenhour , whose conscience first led him to question former comrades , was racked by horror at discovering the crimes his friends had committed but felt no fear of official reprisal when he wrote to 30 Congressmen . |