Example sentences of "he [to-vb] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to the Dover Harbour Board management there was an obvious solution : ‘ Tell him to wait until the 23.59 — he wo n't need to bother with any of that business then ’ . |
| 2 | While welcoming my right hon. Friend 's reply , may I ask him to accept that the best training for Royal Navy reservists is with the regular Navy and will he give that priority in the coming operations for the Royal Naval Reserve ? |
| 3 | ‘ Apart from that , how could I allow him to play when the Scottish League have already altered their fixtures so that none of my home-based players would be playing today ? |
| 4 | Equally serious , his trucker 's rudimentary knowledge of first-aid , led him to suspect that the pink frothy blood evident around the badly swollen nose and mouth could mean a punctured lung . |
| 5 | Professor Lawrence Lindsey 's studies ( National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No 2215 , 1987 ) led him to conclude that the optimum revenue-raising rate is somewhere between 9% and 21% . |
| 6 | It took just a few instants for him to realise that the huddled figure was Mayli Koulo . |
| 7 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 8 | Rosenthal 's own research , and his review of other genetic studies , also leads him to argue that the high probability that identical twins will either both develop or both remain free of schizophrenia is explained by their identical genetic constitution , rather than by a tendency on the part of their friends , relatives and parents to behave towards each of them in a very similar way . |
| 9 | Increasingly , however , his policies and personality had been subjected to close scrutiny by both the media and the Republican Party , causing him to complain that the latter was pursuing a smear campaign against him [ see p. 38953 ] . |