Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this he relied upon Reg. v. Apicella ( 1985 ) 82 Cr.App.R. 295 and Director of Public Prosecutions v. Marshall [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 2 | This he effected by intervention in the local state on ground cleared by the trades boards , the attempted decasualisation of dock labour , and the use of local authority workforces to promote more radical demands on the national state for solutions to crises experienced in local economies . |
| 3 | All this he left to Mother . |
| 4 | For this he stands in weariness , |
| 5 | This he did with difficulty , partly on account of his bad eyesight , partly because of what in later years would come to be referred to as ‘ a learning disability ’ or ‘ mild dyslexia ’ ; and partly because he simply was n't much of a reader . |
| 6 | This he etched in outline on a copper plate , and a print was immediately prepared for him on a piece of drawing-paper . |
| 7 | His original ambition was to be a painter , and in 1933 he enrolled at Goldsmith 's College School of Art . |
| 8 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |
| 9 | In 1821 he joined in partnership with John Beckinton of Newcastle and set up an office at 14 Salthouse Lane , next door to the Hull branch of the Bank of England . |
| 10 | In 1662–3 he served as lord mayor of London . |
| 11 | At full nineteen he stood at life 's door , |
| 12 | In 1892 he went to work in the Great Western Railway works in Swindon , principally as a hammer-man , remaining there until 1914 . |
| 13 | We already know from Frank 's testimony on Monday how violent and conscienceless he became on temazepam . |
| 14 | In 1929 he went into management with Lady Mary Wyndham [ q.v. ] and then on his own . |
| 15 | Through the summer of 1929 he complained to Dobrée of roasting in the modern city 's horrors ( yet wondered if he would find the country any more bearable ) . |
| 16 | In the spring of 1979 he moved from trainer Bobby Donato to V. J. ( ‘ Lefty ’ ) Nickerson in New York , with whom he continued to show his preference for racing on grass rather than on din . |
| 17 | I never knew how much Milhaez could see , and how much he steered from memory . |
| 18 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 19 | In 999 he speaks of delay in getting the fleet into action , and suggests that delay occurred on other occasions , but without explaining why . |
| 20 | No matter how paranoid he felt from time to time about the DIA , Coleman could not conceive that Control would have told him to get hold of a legitimate Thomas Leavy passport for Operation Shakespeare knowing in advance that it would blow the mission and lead to his arrest . |
| 21 | On June 7 he met with opposition party leaders , including Madani and Mahfoud Nahnah , leader of the fundamentalist Hamas party . |
| 22 | In 1836 he went into partnership with John D. Pountney to make pottery . |
| 23 | In 1880–1 he served as president of the Institution . |
| 24 | In 1946 he reported for duty in the English Department with another young lecturer , a modernist called Henry Gifford . |
| 25 | Phelips died ; Robert Carr , Earl of Somerset [ q.v. ] , was disgraced ; and in 1626 he reported on Parliament to Sir Dudley Carleton ( later Viscount Dorchester , q.v . ) . |
| 26 | These he distinguishes as signifié and valeur respectively . |
| 27 | Gloucestershire 's Richard Mainwaring is so good he walks on water … the British Barefoot Water ski-ing champion defends his title at the Cirencester Club in the Cotswold Water Park this weekend … he 's looking for his ninth win and that will be a world record … |
| 28 | He has the contacts — it 's up to you to make sure he gets in touch with them . |
| 29 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 30 | If Mick Jagger is feeling himself out on stage in tight clothing , I 'm sure he comes under attack in some way , er … |