Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 2 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 3 | Apart from the inherent implausibility of this claim , Althusser argues that if Marx were to defend it he would be vulnerable to the very criticism which he made of classical economy . |
| 4 | Recent controversies have resulted in the hearing of a court case against the art historian Professor James Beck from Columbia University in the US , for remarks he made about recent restoration work on a famous Italian sculpture . |
| 5 | He lived at nearby Whaddon Hall , also built in his beloved Gothic style . |
| 6 | After a torrid love affair , he lived in abject poverty , telling his story to anyone who would listen for the price of a drink . |
| 7 | He lived in great style with a hundred servants , keeping house ‘ right bounteously ’ — in 1554 his military equipment at Bletchingley alone filled seventeen wagons . |
| 8 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 9 | He relates a lasting erotic liaison with a certain Mary Parish , an astrologer , cunning woman , and medium , with whom he lived in Long Acre , and by whom he claimed to have had progeny numbering 106 . |
| 10 | He lived in considerable squalor and acrimony in a small Putney flat with his ‘ three bitches ’ : Queenie , his ageing Aunt Bunny , and his emotionally unstable sister , Nancy . |
| 11 | But at Allen Street , where he lived in considerable poverty , he insisted on his independence , cooked all his meals on a gas ring in his room and refused to accept any hospitality from Minton . |
| 12 | He lived in evident poverty , lodging with a cobbler called Morgan , and when his grandchildren came on Sundays to visit ; |
| 13 | The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities . |
| 14 | On 20 January 1744 he reached Paris , and moved on to Gravelines near Dunkirk , where he lived in strict privacy under the name of the Chevalier Douglas . |
| 15 | His concern for the souls of the rich was equalled only by his fear of the impatience of the poor ; he lived in daily fear of revolution . |
| 16 | He was possessed of a calm , reasoned courage in the face of a real danger , but he lived in constant fear of dangers which existed in his brain only " . |
| 17 | And as students of the star signs will verify , the cuspate divisions help explain his ability to carve the characters he plays into different personality fragments to give them added depth . |
| 18 | John explained in a programme note that he had tried ‘ to get the robustness of the early eighteenth century as well as the extremely mannered movements of the period ’ and , although I saw it once only , memory suggests that he succeeded to good effect . |
| 19 | A former goalkeeper on the books of Huddersfield Town and Halifax Town , he refereed at local level until just before Christmas and was also an active umpire . |
| 20 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 21 | He attacked with equal vigour the indulgence shown to dissenters and Roman Catholics , the French alliance , and the venality of placemen . |
| 22 | ‘ Dear , oh , dear , ’ he drawled with mocking disdain , ‘ what am I thinking ? |
| 23 | ‘ Sorry , ’ he drawled with blatant insincerity . |
| 24 | ‘ How generous of you , ’ he drawled with heavy sarcasm . |
| 25 | And so he drifts towards vanishing point : ‘ One may argue about everything endlessly , but from me nothing has come but negation , with no magnanimity and no force . |
| 26 | The point is important for , when he turns to personal identity , he insists on a distinction between two ideas which ‘ the ordinary way of speaking ’ runs together : the idea of ‘ man ’ , and the idea of ‘ person ’ . |
| 27 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 28 | He cared about Christian unity , no one more . |
| 29 | He points to increased life-expectancy and reduced levels of infant mortality during the pesticide age , and adds that " occasional slight over-exposure is not necessarily going to harm anyone " . |
| 30 | He understood literature not to be formal craft , but instead viewed writing as a bodily process , a process which he experienced as wreaking pain , suffering , and destruction on his own body ( Sellin 1968 , p. 83 ) . |