Example sentences of "he [verb] of the [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 | Whatever he thinks of the political make-up of this council , he owes a duty to the city and to his council . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Qaddafi 's offers of union with Tunisia , Egypt , Syria and Morocco seem to indicate that he thinks of the Arab nation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The author warms to his subject when he writes of the Peninsular War . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I have a sweet tooth , ’ he said blandly as he disposed of the fourth . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | He boasted of the various women he would " fuck " . |
| 22 | He approved of the humanitarian work of Christian missionaries in the field of medicine and in the alleviation of the condition of the poor . |
| 23 | He approved of the red Mini . |
| 24 | For six years , on battlefields and in sieges , they had fought side by side and Harper , as soon as he heard of the new war , had waited for a word from his old officer . |
| 25 | When he heard of the multiple deaths , he committed suicide by throwing himself under a lorry . |
| 26 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what account he takes of the national interest in terms of the viability of businesses and the retention of jobs in deciding on the exercise of the functions of his Department in respect of Inland Revenue responsibilities . |
| 27 | The picture he paints of the young Arthur Wellesley is of a man who is calm , courageous and decisive in the face of the enemy , but austere , remote and somewhat harsh in his personal life and relationships with others . |
| 28 | He talked of the hundreds of thousands who traded away their votes so as not to register for the community charge . |
| 29 | He thought of the cruel death of Isaac Rosenberg and the death of his father in the breaking of the siege of the Duc Co Special Forces camp . |
| 30 | Afterwards , they lay silently together and as he thought of the recent conversation with Giancarlo he slowly ran his finger along her hip-bone and down towards her inner thigh . |