Example sentences of "he [verb] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the ways in which Upper Palaeolithic man differed from his predecessors lay in the use he made of the skeletal structures of his food animals . |
| 2 | Whilst I would commend you to study the German Staff Paper in its entirety , I would also draw your attention to its personal citation of AVM Bennett , and note the dateline March — 1944 : " This 35-year-old Australian — known as one of the most resourceful officers in the RAF — had distinguished himself as long ago as 1938 by a record long-range flight to South Africa … an example of his personal operational capabilities … may be cited in the attack which he made of the German Fleet base at Trondheim . " |
| 3 | What did he think of the squashed chicken leaflet ? |
| 4 | He smelled of a lemony cologne . |
| 5 | This final show in the present series left viewers in no doubt about what he thinks of a certain film or its cast . |
| 6 | Whatever he thinks of the political make-up of this council , he owes a duty to the city and to his council . |
| 7 | Asked what he thinks of the pro-Labour stance , Blakenham adds cagily : ‘ I would n't like my own views to be taken out of context . ’ |
| 8 | Qaddafi 's offers of union with Tunisia , Egypt , Syria and Morocco seem to indicate that he thinks of the Arab nation . |
| 9 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 10 | The author warms to his subject when he writes of the Peninsular War . |
| 11 | Educated at Luddesdown before taking his degree at Oxford in 1738 , he was well acquainted with this area for he writes of the old Chapel at Upper Hailing . |
| 12 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 13 | He says of the first degree that it happens when no other desire can divert love from God and " all labyr is lyght to a lufar " , signalling a vivid apprehension of the joy at the heart of the work of redemption . |
| 14 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 15 | The controller requires very little setting.up , as information the motor 's torque/speed characteristic can be acquired automatically he results of a single run to high speed using a known large inertial load . |
| 16 | He disposed of the remaining barriers between them , and even the cold water lapping against their naked bodies could n't cool her heated skin . |
| 17 | ‘ I have a sweet tooth , ’ he said blandly as he disposed of the fourth . |
| 18 | If he had a hangover from too much of the strongest real ale to be found the night before — Jack was a formidable seeker-out of head-banging beers with frightening names — or if the play was too slow , or if he disapproved of a local rule , or a local official , or a new initiative by the PGA , or … |
| 19 | IAN Gow , the Conservative member for Eastbourne , is famed for three things : a doglike devotion to the Prime Minister , a deadpan sense of humour , and his quixotic resignation as housing minister because he disapproved of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 20 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 21 | Among Wright 's many charitable actions was the building of the church of St Martin at Osmaston ( because he disapproved of the high-church tendencies of the parish church ) and the founding of Trent College in 1866 , one of whose houses was named after Wright . |
| 22 | ‘ He came of a crusading line which has held the manor of Templecombe since time immemorial ? ’ |
| 23 | He came of a labouring family and he himself began work in the local cotton industry at the age of ten . |
| 24 | He seemed of a different texture and substance from her gentle and ineffectual mother ; he was hewn or cut out of thunder itself . |
| 25 | Did he speak of a recent row or of serious friction with anyone ? ’ |
| 26 | There he is into the moving of earth as well as mortar : having repaired the house , he constructs a vista culminating in a ‘ pretty alcove ’ of his own design , thus providing a prospect to view through the large panes of glass he has let into his lattices ( he disapproves of the new fashion for sash-windows ) . |
| 27 | He disapproves of the whole superstar DJ scene , however : ‘ At the end of the day it 's only about a bit of plastic — people should n't wet their knickers about it . |
| 28 | It could only get worse for poor Mr Collins as room and meal materialised , but at least he acknowledged of the Cornish in general that they had , ‘ no propensity to jeer at strangers ’ . |
| 29 | He boasted of the various women he would " fuck " . |
| 30 | He approved of the humanitarian work of Christian missionaries in the field of medicine and in the alleviation of the condition of the poor . |