Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We worked 12 hours a day , and for this he paid me 200 francs ( £20 ) a week because , he said , he had to take our board and lodging from our pay . ’ |
| 2 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 3 | In public he put it all on unemployment . |
| 4 | Wordsworth worked from observation — ‘ The incident occurred in the village of Holford , close by Alfoxden ’ , — but in a letter of 1836 he makes it clear that it was a friend who actually saw the man . |
| 5 | ‘ Make sure he gets it right . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure he ate it all . |
| 7 | Make sure he takes it three times a day . |
| 8 | Make sure he leaves you alone in future . |
| 9 | I 'm sure he means her some harm . ’ |
| 10 | CHEAPER He found it cheaper than expected to get started because groundworks and services cost less than forecast . |
| 11 | For instance , when Petrarch met the Emperor Charles IV at Mantua in 1354 he gave him some Roman coins with the words , ‘ Look , Caesar , on those whom you have succeeded ; look on those you should strive to emulate . ’ |
| 12 | In 1305 he found it expedient to issue an Ordinance of the Forest recognizing the disafforestments already carried out , but he declared that the inhabitants of such districts had forfeited their rights of common within the forest , and that the royal demesne should be kept in statu quo . |
| 13 | Yeah , would you , but a couple of years because John was busy he bought us all tokens , erm , he bought the others tokens from Woolworths and me token from a body shop and we all , and I we had great fun looking and seeing what we wanted to buy with , with the book tokens , er , maybe , maybe I mention it providing we ca n't find anything . |
| 14 | When I got older he left me alone and started on my younger sisters . ’ |
| 15 | President Borja ended months of hostility between the government and the Quechua , Achuar and Shiwiar tribes , representing 148 communities and an estimated 20,000 indigenous people , when on May 13 he granted them legal title to more than 3,000,000 acres of homelands in the eastern province of Pastaza . |
| 16 | As Creator He began it all ; as all-powerful He sustains it all ; as judge of the world He will complete it all and bring it to its consummation . |
| 17 | ‘ I remember when in 1987 he took us all to a castle near Como , ’ says Adriano Galliani , Milan 's managing director . |
| 18 | When Richard Earl of Cornwall was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1257 he found it useful to have cameos and intaglios dating from Classical antiquity inserted in his crown as well as precious stones ( fig.36 ) . |
| 19 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 20 | ‘ Ad enuff have you , boy ? ’ he said picking him up and with that he gave them all a brisk wave and disappeared down the steps , closing the hatch quickly behind him . |
| 21 | Don McCullin says that when he was young he thought it exciting and glamorous to risk his life . |
| 22 | Because , now Lyndsey joined it and he , he said like when he was eighteen he knew it all , and he says you were watching men of twenty who 'd just joined at training |
| 23 | In 1854 he felt it desirable to acquire a source of good Yorkshire iron for the Airedale foundry and established the Monk Bridge ironworks nearby , which was managed by his sons , Frederick William and James ( later first Baron Airedale , q.v. ) , the former having previously been principal locomotive designer at Airedale . |
| 24 | One evening , he took her into a side room at the theatre to emphasize just how bad and terrible and boring he thought it all was . |
| 25 | Next he showed them all the armies and warriors and weapons in the world . |