Example sentences of "[noun prp] he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in Rouen he visits the Cimetière Monumental the year after Gustave 's father and sister were buried there , and approves its innovative policy of allowing families to buy freehold plots . |
| 2 | Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody has a few thousand to go before he can ever catch Carson … that ca n't be done in jump racing of course … but the new champion is off to a flying start to the new season … two winners on saturday he won the first at Newton Abbot this afternoon |
| 3 | For Bede he became the fifth overlord of all the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber ( HE II , 5 ) . |
| 4 | February He turns the six-yard box into a cartoon strip . |
| 5 | On 18 December he addressed the Liberal MPs assembled at the National Liberal Club , making what one observer called ‘ the speech of his life ’ . |
| 6 | On 11 December he shot the first-ever specimen of the crimson chat as he traversed the forest bordering the River Feel , to the east of the Liverpool Plains . |
| 7 | On his previous appearance at the Berkshire course in December he won the valuable SGB Chase , staying on well to beat the luckless Minnehoma . |
| 8 | Roh met Soviet President Gorbachev in San Francisco in June 1990 [ see p. 37533 ] , and in December he visited the Soviet Union , the first such visit undertaken by a South Korean leader [ see p. 37918 ] . |
| 9 | shortly after his arrival back in England he founded the famous Pathfinders , eventually retiring from the RAF as an Air Vice Marshal . |
| 10 | On 6 January he attended the first of the sessions of the high court of justice preparatory to the trial , and then attended most sittings of the court . |
| 11 | If Hillary is the perfect partner , then in Al Gore he had the perfect running mate . |
| 12 | At the US Open at Shinnecock Hills he played the best I 'd ever seen him play — probably even better than he was going to in the British Open . |
| 13 | With Walter Crane [ q.v. ] and W. A. S. Benson he organized the first arts and crafts exhibition in Crane Street in 1888 . |
| 14 | Following German intervention in Spain he solved the Spanish military code and collaborated with the French on Italian naval codes used in Abyssinia . |
| 15 | Coming eventually to the North of Ireland he joined the British Army and was posted to England . |
| 16 | Another imposing figure , at the State banquet in Addis Ababa he wore the full dress of a Highland chief and looked magnificent . |
| 17 | By 19 November he had the whole amount , 30 francs , from Theo , and was writing to say how kind and humane it was of him to let him have the ticket money . |
| 18 | TOBY BALDING returned home to his Weyhill stables after racing at Cheltenham on Saturday secure in the knowledge that in Beech Road and Morley Street he trains the two best hurdlers in the country . |
| 19 | After junior appointments at St Thomas 's and Great Ormond Street he entered the Royal Army Medical Corps for two years , during part of which time he investigated the dangers of hyperthermia in tank crews and how they might be overcome . |
| 20 | GRAEME HICK carved out another milestone in his career when during Worcestershire 's match against Leicestershire at New Road he became the youngest player to register 20,000 runs in first-class cricket . |
| 21 | And on MONDAY he tackles the 23-mile stretch to Lytchett Minster , with Bournemouth beckoning . |
| 22 | In Canada he visited the large Armenian community and held talks with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney . |
| 23 | In October he invented the celebrated image of " Chinghis-Khan with telegraphs ' to buttress the argument that Russia might be turning into a sort of latter-day oriental despotism . |
| 24 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 25 | In October he unveiled the biggest loss in Australian corporate history and he ended the year with debts of A$8billion . |
| 26 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 27 | The last time Ferdinand played at Wembley he hit the Dutch post and though Platt popped in the rebound , he said : ‘ I want to go one better this time and score . |
| 28 | Like Posidonius he stresses the internal factions and the strife of the Celts , and the volatile character of their decisions . |
| 29 | When he first mentioned it to Mr Gebler he thought the old guy was going to have a fit . |
| 30 | By early January 1980 , 58 per cent preferred Carter while 42 per cent went for Kennedy and when , in the same poll Carter was matched with Ronald Reagan he outpolled the Californian 65 per cent — 35 per cent . |