Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ? |
| 32 | He got fed the wrong line . |
| 33 | He got to buy the lovely a present . |
| 34 | He worked and worried about this long before he got to play the old man . |
| 35 | He admitted drawing the dividing line will be hard . |
| 36 | During Allen 's second day in the witness box , he admitted taking the nude pictures but denied they were pornographic . |
| 37 | This Eliot had taken from his reading of anthropology , as would become clear from his later social writings , and he sought to preserve the physical and spiritual bonds of his culture in the city of London . |
| 38 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 39 | In short , he sought to restore the Holy Roman Empire of Germany , Burgundy and Italy . |
| 40 | As a practical clinician he sought to describe the normal and the pathological without resorting to either the abstractions of galenism or the incomprehensible mythological and numerological symbolism of contemporary alchemy . |
| 41 | Above all he sought to dismantle the traditional peasant commune . |
| 42 | The motive force behind all of Peter 's reforms was the greater glory of the Russian state , and to this end he sought to harness the entire human and material reserves of his extensive kingdom . |
| 43 | By eliminating all theological and metaphysical elements from his work , he sought to challenge the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy which was founded on the natural rights of the citizen and the inalienable sovereignty of the state . |
| 44 | He dealt with his fear of being controlled by , in some sense , becoming like his mother , and he tried to earn the unconditional attention of others . |
| 45 | The Colonel slashed with his riding crop as he tried to disentangle the trapped limbers . |
| 46 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 47 | While there he tried to form the Labour Church Settlement , a community to function as a centre of intellectual and cultural life for the surviving Labour churches . |
| 48 | The car rumbled about him … even more restful than the noise of train wheels in the old days ; he tried to remember the old days … |
| 49 | He tried to remember the little he knew about them . |
| 50 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |
| 51 | Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts . |
| 52 | He tried to telephone the British artillery unit nearest the balloons , but the operator could n't get through . |
| 53 | He tried to ignore the murmured whispers and laughter as he made his way through the streets across London Bridge and back into Southwark . |
| 54 | He tried to force the military issue but was checked ; a telegram in the names of Lenin and Stalin forbade him ‘ to ‘ self-determine ’ Georgia ’ . |
| 55 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 56 | Martin Kean was injured as he tried to carry the flaming pan out of his third storey flat in Ainstey House , Norton . |
| 57 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 58 | He pressed his lips together and , clenching his fists and frowning , he tried to numb the strange new feelings away . |
| 59 | His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work . |
| 60 | BORIS BECKER spoke here yesterday of how he tried to find the perfect antidote to New York by taking a week 's holiday in East Germany after winning the United States Open last month . |