Example sentences of "he [vb past] the national [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 2 | He described the National Insurance Act of 1911 as a ‘ vile enslaving measure ’ which compelled individuals to make contributions and to be registered with state agencies which diminished freedom and increased bureaucratic control . |
| 3 | While he remained a stout supporter of the Net Book Agreement , he described the National Book Sales as ‘ too limited ’ . |
| 4 | When he visited The National Gallery in London , he was enchanted by the Italian Masters Massacio and Pierro de la Francesca , and the manner in which they portrayed the human figure . |
| 5 | The in-form Everton striker , who has been tipped for Graham Taylor 's squad for next month 's friendly in Spain , denies he told the national boss to forget about him . |
| 6 | Law gave credence to such fears by his unashamed espousal of the image created round him ; in May 1912 he told the National Union that " nobody knows better than I do that political work can not be done on strictly business lines , but the nearer you can approach to business lines the better for the political work " . |
| 7 | The system could be set up by the industry itself ‘ on as voluntary a basis as possible ’ , he told the national heritage select committee 's inquiry into privacy and media intrusion . |
| 8 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 9 | He dominated the National Executive with his ‘ soft left ’ allies . |
| 10 | He reorganized the National Federation to make it more responsive to the needs of local associations , so encouraging affiliations , and revolutionized the Central Association 's conduct of elections , the improvements being reflected in a series of favourable by-election results at the end of the 1880s . |
| 11 | In 1987 he joined the national office to run projects on smoke-free air in public places . |
| 12 | Yet there can be little doubt that Joseph 's reformism was genuine and was combined with an attempt to appeal to the national past ; he encouraged the national theatre , set up a commission to exhume Cervantes ' remains , patronized a national museum of painting . |
| 13 | Similarly , Simon had said that he detested the National Front , but it was always the left-wingers who started the violence . |
| 14 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 15 | On 17 July , at Arrese 's suggestion , he addressed the National Council of FET y de las JONS . |
| 16 | He won the national championship in one season and finished fairly high in another season . |
| 17 | He himself went into the Army , and erm , he was , he was born in a in a little village , and an article in the newspaper that I acquired in Strasbourg , said that he was born in this little village Lom le Soniere his was born to life , but in Strasbourg , where he wrote the National Anthem , he was born to immortality . |
| 18 | Also Leslie Silver said in the paper that although he wanted the national team to do well he thought that Leeds winning the title was far more important and that he would fight ‘ tooth and nail to keep Howard Wilkinson at Leeds ’ |