Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , he had already used colour in a non-imitative way , but after 1930 ; in part as a result of using paper-cutouts to help with the design of the Barnes mural he realised that colour could have a tangible reality of its own . |
| 2 | After retirement he continued as professor in Alexandria ( 1947–9 ) , Grahamstown ( 1951–4 ) , and titularly in Manchester and London . |
| 3 | As part of the process he resigned as chairman of the ruling MPR and appointed a transitional government headed by a First State Commissioner ( Prime Minister ) . |
| 4 | Sentences ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) illustrate the point : ( 2 ) He lay there listening to the noises not caring how time went but watching it and watching everything … ( 3 ) When the sunbeams struck into his room and quivered on the opposite wall through the rustling blinds like golden water he knew that evening was coming on , and that the sky was red and beautiful . |
| 5 | For a brief spell he worked as headmaster of the Cattle Market School , St Luke 's , Holloway . |
| 6 | Freud argues that the man who is sexually jealous of a woman would ‘ not only feel pain about the woman he loves and hatred of the man who is his rival , but also grief about the man , whom he loves unconsciously , and hatred of the woman as his rival ’ ( ‘ Some Neurotic Mechanisms ’ , x. 197 — 8 ) . |
| 7 | PREMIER John Major sat squirming in the Commons yesterday as the man he dismissed as Chancellor put a bomb under him and lit the fuse . |
| 8 | In this sense he assumes that government policy is subject to the same degree of stickiness as prices . |
| 9 | In the Sunday Express he said that goal judges ‘ must come ’ to give more help to referees in avoiding errors of judgement . |
| 10 | He was generally known as an Anabaptist , but though he ridiculed infant baptism he insisted that adult or believer 's baptism was also unnecessary . |
| 11 | Early in his reign he realized that liberalism was unpopular with the masses , and he deliberately scorned the classes : his power , as Lord Liverpool observed from a distance , was based on an alliance of proletariat and priests against ‘ landlords ’ and middle classes . |
| 12 | In a session entitled Sensuous Food he demonstrated that odour is plugged directly into our emotions . |
| 13 | By the time he realized that war was coming it was too late to get out . |
| 14 | Having consolidated his base , he launched an aggressive drive that led to the take-over of Newcastle Breweries and several smaller Edinburgh companies to form Scottish & Newcastle , which by the time he retired as chairman in 1969 was supplying about 10 per cent of British beer sales . |
| 15 | In a letter to the British Medical Journal in 1938 on the treatment of pneumonia he stated that sulphapyridine was active against pneumococci only when helped by leucocytes , and ( true to the tradition of Almroth Wright ) its action was improved if anti-pneumococcal serum was administered at the same time . |
| 16 | The envelope he found that morning looked like a reply from Viola . |