Example sentences of "he [verb] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1–4 Malcolm MacKinnon , an old man , was lost in a storm between Bridgend and Mulindry where he lived and a week later had not been found . |
| 2 | He presumed that a plane , out of control had crashed through the fragile frame of wood and canvas . |
| 3 | This is well illustrated by a famous decree made by Barbarossa , in which he ruled that a fire raiser who had taken refuge in a castle must be delivered to justice by those who had sheltered him , but not if he were the lord of the castle-owner , or his vassal , or his kinsman . |
| 4 | He agreed that a mother 's censorship would be very limiting , and , after consulting Isobel , who was enchanted with the idea , he said that the furniture could be brought in . |
| 5 | I told him about my Knights — without revealing their identities — and he agreed that a lot can be achieved with the mind , that attitude is everything , and that life 's ‘ hard knocks ’ shape your character . |
| 6 | He argued that a period of continued budgetary growth is likely to build expectations that the pattern of growth will continue . |
| 7 | He realized that a robot was stripping him of his armour and removing all detectable weapons . |
| 8 | In 1783 ‘ returning thanks to those gentlemen who have been pleased to employ him with surveying , drawing etc. ’ he announced that a school would be opened at the corner of Tassel Street , near Ridgefield , for the instruction of young gentlemen , in the arts of drawing and painting . |
| 9 | The Moslem President of Bosnia-Hercevgovina , Alija Izetbegovic , protested at the holding of the meeting which he saw as unrepresentative and as a move to split Moslems in the republic , and on Aug. 16 he announced that a referendum would be held on the future of Bosnia-Hercegovina at a date to be determined by Bosnia 's parliament . |
| 10 | Two weeks later , he announced that a referendum would be held to change the method of electing the President of the Republic , by replacing the electoral college with popular election . |
| 11 | He announced that a security expert is to be sent to the Hermitage to collaborate on improved security . |
| 12 | Reminded his audience of the existing theoretical provision in the 1977 USSR Constitution for a union republic to secede , he announced that a draft law was currently in preparation on a " mechanism for how a republic could leave the Soviet Union , " including " the time-frame for leaving , defence , communications , and a whole series of questions " . |
| 13 | He asked that a deputy be appointed for his teaching duties while he himself left to pursue an ecclesiastical career in the newly created Diocese of Chester . |
| 14 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 15 | Moreover he found that a concession made in the pleadings to the effect that the plaintiffs did not allege that the defendants had made use of any of the plaintiffs ' trade secrets since leaving their employment was , in the light of the judgment of Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 617 fatal . |
| 16 | He found that a reader 's familiarity with the language enabled his subjects to fill in missing letters . |
| 17 | First and foremost he maintained that a mistake of law would be no defence to the application of the principle but as alternatives he submitted that the principle would be subject to the mistake of law defence or that the defence of mistake of law should be abrogated altogether . |
| 18 | He accepted that his submissions on duress were substantially subsumed in his primary argument but he maintained that a threat by the Crown to sue put Woolwich on unequal terms and that this was sufficient to constitute duress . |
| 19 | He demonstrated that a rise in State spending unaccompanied by an increase in taxes would have stimulated the economy towards full employment with the smallest change . |
| 20 | But somewhat surprisingly ( given that the representational theory of the mind is supposed to be a theory of thinking , not of how we handle inputs ) he concludes that a psychology of the central systems is beyond our reach : the more global a mental process is the less we are likely to understand about it . |
| 21 | She has stopped Keith from having cold drinking chocolate which he adores because a neighbour said the additives might be making him hyperactive . |
| 22 | She has stopped Keith from having cold drinking chocolate which he adores because a neighbour said that the additives might be making him hyperactive . |
| 23 | I had not intended to intrude on my hon. Friend 's speech , but does he consider that a schoolteacher , whose salary is fixed through national wage agreements by the independent pay review body for teachers and who lives in my hon. Friend 's or my constituency in the south-east , is better able to afford the council tax on a higher band than a teacher who lives in Darlington or elsewhere in the north ? |
| 24 | But the seeming ‘ either/or ’ conflict suggested by these opposing views does not exist ; leadership styles can vary in degrees , ranging from extreme Theory X to extreme Theory Y. McGregor was unable to prove that one extreme was objectively better than another ( ie. more productive ) nor could he disprove that a middle of the road leadership style might not be better . |
| 25 | He proposed that a plan for the area should be considered first , which could show the Horse Guards and the Admiralty removed , and St James 's Park extended to the river . |
| 26 | He proposed that a direction be given |
| 27 | Reiterating earlier calls from Czech leaders , he proposed that a referendum be held on the issue . |
| 28 | He proposed that a prosecution should not be started or continued unless a prosecutor was satisfied there was reliable evidence and kept evidence under review . |
| 29 | He proposed that a prosecution should not be embarked upon or continued unless the prosecutors were satisfied there was reliable evidence . |
| 30 | And while he accepts that a lack of funds could be a serious obstacle to change , he does not want to be ‘ mesmerised by difficulties ’ . |