Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the woman 's eyes he saw a like recognition and knew his senses did not deceive him . |
| 5 | With narrow lips and eyes he faced the strolling irony of the afternoon crowds , the young , the robed incurious foreigners . |
| 6 | Among these long-term influences he included the deplorable state of the late medieval Catholic church , a widespread and deeply-rooted anti-clericalism , and the indigenous English heresy of Lollardy , which had both fuelled lay anti-clericalism and prepared the ground for later Protestant doctrines . |
| 7 | For his own pictures he preferred the early autumnal colours . |
| 8 | He walked away to the desk , collecting his key , and as he walked towards the lifts he flicked a quick glance back to the girl who 'd been brought up as his daughter . |
| 9 | Smacking his lips he placed the empty glass down on the bar . |
| 10 | ( Thus , like retributivists he advocated a proportional tariff , although he was himself a reductivist . ) |
| 11 | Within fifteen months he secured a reunited Conservative Party , which gave him the longest uninterrupted party premiership between Asquith and Attlee , the final reduction to a rump of the Liberal Party , and a brief , innocuous baptism of power for the Labour Party . |
| 12 | One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled . |
| 13 | When I got to my feet he took the injured arm in both his hands , told me to shut my eyes and start counting . |
| 14 | As he stooped to kiss Murad 's feet he drew a poisoned dagger and stabbed the Turkish leader , causing ‘ the illustrious sultan to drink the sherbet of martyrdom ’ . |
| 15 | He says that under the circumstances he did the right thing . |
| 16 | Legend relates that while he was living in the mountains he brewed a hypnotic drink , and after drinking it fell into a deep sleep and dreamed strange dreams . |
| 17 | Beneath a heap of old rags and newspapers and raincoats he found an empty petrol can . |
| 18 | For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass . |
| 19 | Over the next two weeks he made a slow clinical improvement and required blood transfusion and intravenous nutrition . |
| 20 | For years he had an inner voice which was always putting him down . |
| 21 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 22 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 23 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 24 | It makes sense to retain Lineker , for though his rate of scoring may have dropped considerably over the past two years he remains the only England striker of sufficient class to succeed in Italy next summer . |
| 25 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |
| 26 | For two years he fed the poor woman poison . ’ |
| 27 | For more than four years he rented a luxury flat near his home at a cost of £385 a week and showered her with expensive gifts . |
| 28 | As TODAY revealed yesterday , there had been evidence that for over four years he rented a luxury apartment only 11 miles from their bungalow at Caterham , Surrey . |
| 29 | Six years he opening a small foundry at the back . |
| 30 | Every 10 years he publishes a weighty tome about social life , the universe and everything , which then proceeds to sell by the bucket throughout the world . |