Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 2 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 3 | Upstairs in the bedroom he found empty whisky bottles littering the floor . |
| 4 | At his own expense he spent some months in England attached to units of the British Army for training . |
| 5 | Chelsea , the club he joined four days later , are already paying Swindon 120,000 pounds in compensation for Hoddle the manager , but they 'd offered nothing for Hoddle the player , threatening to withdraw his playing contract rather than part with any more money . |
| 6 | As a member of the Historic Rally Car Club he gained 1st place in his class and 11th overall in the series of eight rallies held at Longleat . |
| 7 | Mr Clark admitted at the Old Bailey he encouraged British firms to sell sanction-busting military equipment to Iraq . |
| 8 | An intensely dutiful , rather dour man , he was plagued by eye troubles and as a result he shunned fashionable society . |
| 9 | In his mind he spoke another girl 's name ; a girl long dead , and asked her to forgive him . |
| 10 | By adopting this method of study he wasted less time and it also enabled him to learn more efficiently . |
| 11 | This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same . |
| 12 | During the interview he said all killing was wrong , but added that there was now ‘ increasing fear of paramilitary activities ’ in the Catholic community . |
| 13 | As both composer and critic he touched both sides of the coin : A climate of receptivity is what the artist most desires . |
| 14 | In advance of the fighting he warned both sides not to take military action , even though Egypt 's prior closing of the Straits of Tiran was widely regarded as itself an act of aggression . |
| 15 | To convert the principle into practice he needed detailed instructions from the centre . |
| 16 | Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes . |
| 17 | The King of Portugal offered to raise him to the title of Count Torre Bella on condition he took Portuguese nationality . |
| 18 | By his first marriage he had three sons ( the youngest of whom died in infancy ) , and by the second one son and four daughters . |
| 19 | In favour of marriage he noted such things as children , companionship and home comforts : ‘ picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire , and books and music perhaps ’ . |
| 20 | During the expedition which was undertaken in the depth of winter he passed 5 weeks in the bush without seeing a civilised being sleeping occasionally in a Tent , sometimes under a cart but more frequently on the bare ground wrapped in a Kangaroo skin rug still he had not had a cold or the slightest disorder … ’ |
| 21 | Health and Safety Executive representative Neil Anderson said Peter McKay was working on a cutting machine when his glove became entangled with a rotating bar he broke two bones in his left hand and was off work for six weeks . |
| 22 | In most districts the same person held the posts of justice of the peace and police magistrate , but it was necessary for the complainant to determine in which capacity he wanted this official to act . |
| 23 | He later became joint chairman of the UK Byron Society and joint president of the International Byron Society ; in this capacity he chaired international Byron symposia in Cambridge and Athens , on one occasion conducting members in the footsteps of Byron 's Childe Harold to Epirus , into which he had parachuted in summer 1944 . |
| 24 | Shortly after his return Gresley appointed him assistant carriage and wagon superintendent , in which capacity he introduced numerous innovations including modernized train interiors ; a completely articulated five-coach train set carried on only six bogies , in whose kitchen electric cooking was pioneered ; and also twin articulated sleeping cars . |
| 25 | Despite this diligence in the diocese he had more leisure than at Durham and much more leisure than later . |
| 26 | Not so ! always said that he had enjoyed his time at Kirkcaldy and at the lunch he underlined that sentiment . |
| 27 | Randolph 's heart sank , after all , he thought that he deserved a red nose after all the hard work he did last night , helping the other reindeers to deliver presents . |
| 28 | On the outward run he achieved 297 m.p.h . |
| 29 | Because log-normal distributions follow linear trends on the cumulative probability plot he considered each segment to represent a separate sub-population whose character was determined by the dynamics of transport : traction , saltation and suspension . |
| 30 | During a five-week period in Lent he gave 19 concerts , some at the homes of aristocrats such as Count Johann Esterházy and the Russian Ambassador , Prince Golitsin , and some privately organized by himself . |