Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [vb pp] 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 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 3 | Not only has the right hon. Gentleman made an idiot of himself by that intervention , but he has achieved the interesting feat of misquoting himself . |
| 4 | In the period since his appointment , he has merged the two companies , their products and the sales force into the single organisation that is in operation today . |
| 5 | And he has warned the Prime Minister that some firms will soon abandon the Youth Training scheme if they do n't cut red tape . |
| 6 | The Home Secretary has not even tried to explain why the Government have changed their mind or why he has rejected the published judgment of his predecessor . |
| 7 | I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has . |
| 8 | The creditors ' committee does not come into being until the trustee has issued a certificate of its due constitution ( r 6.151 ) and his certificate must not be issued until he has received the written consent to act from three members of the committee ( r6.151(3A) ) . |
| 9 | To date , he has received the most commissons of any architectural ‘ mousequeteer ’ : three at Disneyland , Florida , one in Burbank , California , three at Euro Disney . |
| 10 | Richard Cocco Senior at the Palisade Music Company would like the bass playing world to know that he has developed the first 4-wrap low B bass string , as part of the R. Cocco 5-string bass set . |
| 11 | As the brilliant loner scientist Seth Brundle , Jeff Goldblum thinks he has developed the perfect , instant form of transport between two telepods . |
| 12 | Using profit maximising analyses and based on a model of a mainly cereal farm in the eastern counties he has calculated the likely impact of various assumed changes in the economics of farming . |
| 13 | It merely means that he has selected the best presentation of the subject for your assistance . |
| 14 | He has done a lot of thinking and he has concluded the labour party is finished for him and I think a lot more people will do the same . |
| 15 | He has represented the English artist Cornelia Parker , Annelies Strba from Switzerland , and West German video artists Klaus Vom Bruch and Marcel Odenbach . |
| 16 | He has illustrated the expanding provision of leisure opportunities for a growing middle class and offered a convincing account of , for example , the spread of newspapers and periodical literature and the complex of activities associated with the remarkable rise of the leisure towns . |
| 17 | He has acknowledged the Italian trend towards overtly sexy clothes by cutting flirty side slits on a curve in his short skirts and stitching a provocative little hitch into them . |
| 18 | In conducting this exercise the Commissioner has explained that he has adopted the wide test of subversion formulated by Lord Harris in 1975 and that his duty ‘ is to look at each case individually and say whether the Home Secretary could reasonably take the view that the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security ’ ( Lloyd , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead . |
| 20 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 21 | Nothing in the system tells the operator when he has reached the desired temperature ; he can influence the temperature but he has no direct means of knowing the result . |
| 22 | The popular Scot might not relish the thought of another 10 months on the road , but at least he departs his home in the West of Scotland secure in the knowledge that he has overcome the chronic putting problems which at one time threatened to end his career . |
| 23 | Even when answers start to emerge , it will be some time before those who depend on the industry for a livelihood — and that includes at least 100,000 Scots — will know whether or not he has sent the right signals in a climate of fierce international competition for scarce oil industry investment funds . |
| 24 | He has faced the toughest election of any Tory chairman for 20 years , while spending the afternoons dashing to Bath to defend his own marginal seat against a strong Liberal Democrat challenge . |
| 25 | ‘ A consultant should be able to help you because , unlike you , he has faced the same problems elsewhere , ’ he said . |
| 26 | He has grasped the neat theological and ontological crux implicit in the captain 's statement , and has acted bored at it . |
| 27 | As Secretary of State for the Environment he has decided the three towered 19-storey building nicknamed the toast-rack which his department works out of should be demolished . |
| 28 | He has supported the MX missile , star wars and chemical-weapons production . |
| 29 | This is usually not because of any lack of understanding of what has been said , but simply because he has lost the normal control of his emotions . |
| 30 | By surmounting , so he tells us , one set of obstacles in being accepted by the Balinese , he also creates the rhetorical conditions where we are likely to favour a belief that he has surmounted the theoretical obstacles attended on his methodological discovery as well . |