Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , there 's just Mr Foster , 'e 's got the other two rooms on this landin' . |
| 2 | His top-storey apartment had a glass dome which allowed him to sit watching the falling stars . |
| 3 | Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity . |
| 4 | Rosenberg 's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry , but his tone is different : more impersonal , informal , ironic , and lacking the indignation characteristic of the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon [ qq.v . ] . |
| 5 | Why , then , was John Titford a member of this glorified Home Guard when , at the age of 23 , we might have expected him to have joined the regular army or to have found his way somehow into the militia ? |
| 6 | This new Rose who had descended upon him had joined the gaudy throng , for reasons she would n't divulge , and had lost some of her individuality . |
| 7 | For one thing , many of those who had opposed him had joined the Royalist army and had been killed in the war . |
| 8 | Formerly , Alick Nkhata and men like him had adapted the western popular music of the time , particularly country and western music , which they married with traditional melodies and themes . |
| 9 | We watch him trying to master the pure theory of swimming — he has no intention of ever setting foot in the water . |
| 10 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 11 | L. MacNeill Weir , in his book The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald , was the main critic , suggesting that MacDonald was an opportunist , a liberal rather than a socialist , that he schemed to ditch the Labour government , and betrayed the Labour Party . |
| 12 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 13 | So he swooped to catch the falling child , drive away the wolf or restore the horse — all these miracles being depicted in small panels round the central figure of the Saint . |
| 14 | ’ He turns to face the elder policeman . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know how he planned to explain the false name and why he was living at Pen House , ’ said Holmes . |
| 16 | Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet . |
| 17 | He planned to catch the 6 pm flight back to Munich . |
| 18 | If he ran into Eleanor he planned to blame the general editor and make soothing noises . |
| 19 | He ignores a , a lot of things that go on but even he passed comment the other the other week when we was at bingo when we were coming out he said er he says she 's horrible to Sam that sometimes ! |
| 20 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 21 | He agreed to summon the Scottish parliament , that it should consent to Mary 's marriage with the dauphin Francis and to her departure for France , and that Scottish castles should be handed over to the French — as indeed Dunbar and Blackness were . |
| 22 | He could see the horizon just above the shining disc of his propeller , and he fought to drag the leaden nose up to it . |
| 23 | Like almost all other ministers he avoided visiting the defeated South as such a trip would not have fitted the received view of America which both hosts and visitors wished to retain . |
| 24 | He applied to join the Oratorian Congregation newly formed by John Henry Newman ( later cardinal , q.v. ) , but was turned down in March 1847 . |
| 25 | And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant . |
| 26 | It was not Srikkanth 's day : he recovered to open the Indian reply , but was unhappy at being given out caught behind off McDermott ( Healy 's 100th Test catch ) , indicating that the ball hit his forearm . |
| 27 | He failed to notice the borrowed things that the girls wore , looking around him instead in dumb bafflement : it was a wedding day , a shining moment in his life , and , except for the dressed children , it could be any ordinary day . |
| 28 | Yates blamed father Mike 's coaching after he failed to reach the 1500 metres final . |
| 29 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 30 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |