Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this he took a photograph which he passed across to Mrs Wilson . |
| 2 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 3 | He was still confronting me in a pugnacious attitude , but at this he took a step back . |
| 4 | To this he added a determination that existing regulations which restricted the number and quality of foreign seamen employed on British ships should he enforced and strengthened , drawing attention to the abuse whereby shipowners discharged British seamen at foreign ports and hired cheaper foreign crews to replace them and to the need to repeal the Indian Merchant Shipping Act which permitted owners to employ lascars on worse terms than British seamen . |
| 5 | To achieve this he creates a sense of the gap between the speaker and God by contrasting verbs of action which embody a sense of the dynamic power of the love of God to the speaker 's trapped stillness , and then resolves these apparent opposites as he perceives his stillness to be the very condition of the inner movement he desires . |
| 6 | From this he ran a fuse through the floor and out of an air vent into the garden outside . |
| 7 | My understanding is that in 1977 Willy De Roos achieved this under sail in one season , and for this he received a Krug Award for Excellence . |
| 8 | To pay for this he raised a mortgage of £500 on his house . |
| 9 | Out of this he drew a Cellophane packet . |
| 10 | For this he needs a computer at his home with a large storage capacity , and the ESRC project has been able to provide this . |
| 11 | In addition to this he held a government post as inspector of science and arts for Irish schools from 1894 . |
| 12 | In addition to this he favoured a condom made from a sheep 's intestine and a collection of two-ounce gold balls which seemingly brought security and immense satisfaction to his partners . |
| 13 | in 1876 he became a research assistant to P. G. Tait [ q.v. ] , professor of natural philosophy . |
| 14 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 15 | In March 1972 he made a £360 million offer for the Red Barrel brewer , winning control three months later . |
| 16 | In 1972 he opened a shop in the Kings Road , at first selling teddy-boy schmutter , much later , in premises renamed Sex , rubber and leather bondage clothing . |
| 17 | Charles McCall began life as a clerk to a firm of lawyers in Edinburgh , but in 1933 he won a scholarship to Edinburgh College of Art , where he studied under DM Sutherland and SJ Peploe . |
| 18 | In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 19 | In 1881 he took a job at Hale Farm Nurseries ; then , not long after , in order to start experimenting with his ideas on design , accepted a partnership with a firm of contractors . |
| 20 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 21 | It was clear he had a problem . |
| 22 | At the age of twenty-one he became a captain of his father 's ships and remained at sea until 1818 , acquiring a worldwide knowledge of shipping and navigation . |
| 23 | Parts I-IV consist of double-choral pieces for eight , but sometimes twelve , voices ; with Part V he began a systematization according to category , with motet-settings of Festlieder , and went on to produce three volumes — 746 pieces to 458 different texts — of straightforward four-part settings for congregational use plus a few organ ‘ variations ’ in VII ; in IX he again set the hymns of I-IV but for two or three voices and even contemplated doing them yet again ‘ motet-wise in the style of Lassus ’ , ‘ madrigal-wise in the style of Marenzio ’ , and per choros in the style of Victoria . |
| 24 | It was rumoured that as the monarch 's virility grew less reliable he developed a habit of taking substantial quantities of aphrodisiacs . |
| 25 | In 1789–90 he made a book of plans of the Earl of Eglinton 's estates in Ayrshire , one of the treasures of the Scottish Record Office . |
| 26 | His autobiography was published on September 28 and , on October 2 he gives a talk at the National Theatre . |
| 27 | About 1560 he became a Protestant , as Janequin and Certon never did , and made a four-part setting of the complete Marot-de Beze Psalter in lightly ornamented note-against-note counterpoint with the melodies generally in the highest part ( Paris , 1564 ) . |
| 28 | In 1903 he launched a paper , West African Mail ( later the African Mail ) , as a vehicle for his campaign , and in 1904 also founded the Congo Reform Association with ( Sir ) Roger Casement [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | In 1903 he addressed a conference in Liverpool where he made ‘ a Plea for a Worshipful Church ’ . |
| 30 | In 1728 he established a farm at Kingsessing near Philadelphia , with six acres sloping away to the river in the south-west for a garden and where horticultural work in due course supplanted his pursuit of agriculture . |