Example sentences of "he [verb] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After steadily improving his position in the opinion polls , Perot achieved a breakthrough in mid-May when , for the first time , he registered a higher rating than both of his main Republican and Democratic rivals . |
| 2 | But having travelled thousands of miles in the last three weeks , he experienced a rougher ride on his own doorstep than he had encountered in many a photo opportunity en route . |
| 3 | It came as he met a further batch of 20 Tory loyalists , sceptics and ditherers in his private office . |
| 4 | After this , he became a nicer cat , + was n't so proud of himself all the time . |
| 5 | In fact , the British inventor P. J. Packman took the idea a stage further ; he developed a cutter for V-shaped grooves , rather than the U-shaped grooves then considered normal , so he got a deeper groove at the same time . |
| 6 | As a palaeographer he enjoyed reproducing ancient scripts using implements of his own devising , just as an archaeologist he sought a deeper insight into ornaments by drawing them or even carving them with his own hands . |
| 7 | Whatever the right labels , the attitudinist agrees that no properly ethical expression can be adequately defined in purely naturalistic or even metaphysical terms but offers what he thinks a better explanation of this fact than the invocation of non-natural properties , namely that such definitions ignore valuational or emotive meaning . |
| 8 | Born in Czechoslovakia and now teaching in Paris , he receives a fuller introduction on the page by our literary editor , Julian Evans . |
| 9 | The dealer contemplated suing the recruitment agency until he found a better job . |
| 10 | As expected , he found a higher correlation between the economic indicators and vocational schooling than general secondary schooling — but only in the developing and not in the affluent countries . |
| 11 | He provided a better place , which the uneasy partner did not even want to look at , but admits could not be better . |
| 12 | he has a better idea of the total market picture , especially in relation to marketing opportunities between segments of that market , |
| 13 | The 32-year-old Londoner , second behind the brilliant street-driving genius of Ayrton Senna in Monaco , knows he has a better chance of glory in Montreal . |
| 14 | The 32-year-old , second behind Ayrton Senna in Monaco , knows he has a better chance of glory in Montreal . |
| 15 | The enemy has a chance to out-fly you , and if he has a better machine he will probably kill you . |
| 16 | If er Mr Major is not going to look at why I say that then I hope that he , I assume from that that he has a better hope of peace an an |
| 17 | Paish feels he has a tougher job instilling that killer instinct in footballers than athletes . |
| 18 | In another letter he described a further scheme : |
| 19 | He used a lighter rail with a section known a ‘ bridge rail ’ supported on longtitudinal baulks of timber with light cross ties or transoms to maintain the gauge . |
| 20 | Mr Smith has pinpointed the area from which he wants a better return . |
| 21 | Now he wants a bigger say in how the money he gives is spent . |
| 22 | He wants a larger allocation in any case . |
| 23 | It seemed as if he received a shorter term in jail because he was a doctor . |
| 24 | He deserved a better death . ’ |
| 25 | Unfortunately , he suffered a further relapse and returned to the sanatorium for further treatment before being appointed the curate at St Mary 's Church , Morecambe . |
| 26 | In spring 1987 he suffered a further blow when the constituent members of the PLO — split since 1983 — were reconciled at the 18th PNC in Algiers , and formally renounced the 1985 accord with Jordan . |
| 27 | We might even discover that he uses a lower number of abstract nouns than other writers of his time . |
| 28 | But in 1749 he committed a greater indiscretion when he left Cambridge for London , to live on his wits . |
| 29 | He scored a further success with Colonel Nathaniel Montgomery Moore who , on the visit which he , his wife and Miss D'Arcy had just taken to Dumfries , had encountered none other than Major General Gerard Lake , ‘ who told me about your great gallantry at Guelder — Gueld — ‘ |
| 30 | He believed a truer picture of the company 's performance was given by earnings figures calculated on a current-cost basis , which rose by just 8 per cent to £3.1 billion on turnover which fell by more than £1 billion to £73 billion . |