Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped make the artist 's name and was bought in 1912 by the poet Hugo von Hoffmannsthal with the money he made from writing the libretto to Richard Strauss 's Der Rosenkavalier . |
| 2 | So much so , in fact , that , despite the beauty of Lorenz 's original paper , and the remarkable progress he made in understanding the behaviour of his system , the paper ( and the ideas ) were largely ignored for nearly ten years . |
| 3 | He succeeded in producing the first development plan for Athens since it was liberated from the Turks , but in 1984 he was forced to resign over his proposal for establishing a green belt by bulldozing illegal slums in the suburbs . |
| 4 | He succeeded in reversing the downward trend of the railway 's fortunes , countering the advance of electric trams by introducing electric traction on suburban railway lines such as Liverpool to Southport , one of the earliest main-line electrification schemes in the country , completed in 1904 . |
| 5 | More than once he was sadly mistaken and duly disappointed with the human material at hand ; nonetheless , he succeeded in transforming an almost dormant pre-1939 Law School at University College , London , into a flourishing and internationally leading Law Faculty . |
| 6 | So , he was surprised when he succeeded in drawing the knife and felt its comforting weight in his left fist , before his enemy had managed to reach him . |
| 7 | In the first place , although he succeeded in getting an oath of obedience from Archbishop Thomas of York , Thomas could not bind his successors . |
| 8 | Looking around then for a non-union post he succeeded in getting an appointment to the Script Department at Ealing Studios , a complex famous the world over for its comedies . |
| 9 | But it was Keynes who possessed the greater mobility and fire-power and in the end he succeeded in shifting the argument on to theoretical grounds of his own choosing . |
| 10 | By this daring stroke he succeeded in abolishing the ultraviolet catastrophe . |
| 11 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 12 | A report by a commission of church historians published on Jan. 6 claimed that high-level French Roman Catholic clergy had helped protect the suspected war criminal Paul Touvier for almost 45 years during which he succeeded in winning a brief pardon in 1971 . |
| 13 | In his early years as Archbishop he succeeded in obtaining the appointment of a number of Reformers as bishops . |
| 14 | And he succeeded in making a telescope of the sort familiar to everyone today who has seen an elementary book on optics . |
| 15 | Despite some well publicised rows with Lord Kissin , the group 's founder , and a high turnover of senior executives , he succeeded in turning the company round . |
| 16 | Let us make a careful assessment of the extent to which he succeeded in defending a rationalist position . |
| 17 | After trying several switches he succeeded in lighting a bulb in the far corner of the warehouse . |
| 18 | In the 1970s , at the University of Washington in Seattle , he succeeded in isolating a single electron and holding it in his trap for nearly 10 months before losing it . |
| 19 | He succeeded in isolating the essential germ-killing element , and created sulfanilamide , the first modern drug to work directly upon the cause of infection . |
| 20 | Having prematurely begun campaigning against Bush , however , he was forced to refocus his campaign on Brown , whom he attacked for advocating a taxation system which would favour the rich . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , despite all the necessary caveats regarding Nizan 's possible disenchantment with the reality of the Soviet experiment , and the difficulty he experienced in making the transition from sectarian to popular front tactics , Nizan remained fully committed to communism and the PCF between 1935 and 1939 . |
| 22 | With average school qualifications , he planned on becoming an apprentice joiner , but saw a vacancy advertised for a trainee photographic technician at Yorkshire Post Newspapers ( YPN ) in Leeds . |
| 23 | He goes off having a certain amount of difficulty walking , the sharp little packets no doubt cutting into the delicate peachstone flesh of his testicles . |
| 24 | He is a bit younger , of course , and probably thinks I 'm an old fuddy-duddy , as well as avuncular ( as he insists on reminding the viewers most evenings ) . |
| 25 | But then , in his very next speech he insists on shaking the hands of all of the conspirators . |
| 26 | This should be sufficient to put a purchaser on notice so that he insists on paying the purchase monies to two trustees or a trust corporation so as to obtain a good receipt ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s27 ) . |
| 27 | He was criticised for being negative , so he resorted to inserting the word ‘ positive ’ at dreary intervals into his stock responses to questions . |
| 28 | With a considerable number of men in plaster , he resorted to constructing a sled which sped down an incline on rails , from which the trainee rolled off sideways . |
| 29 | It must have threatened him not only with disillusionment , but with a despair verging on the suicidal ; and if he persists in disseminating the message , he does so almost somnambulistically , as a means of distracting himself from his uncertainties . |
| 30 | ‘ Robert Newman here , ’ he announced after pressing the button . |