Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
| 2 | Hundreds of the hostel residents had been questioned , the Commissioner said ; six had been arrested , and he expected further arrests following the result of forensic tests of bloodstained weapons found at the hostel . |
| 3 | He got better Girls from there , not boasting . |
| 4 | However , he got better results in his own TV film , The Ewok Adventure ( aka Caravan of Courage , 1984 ) , which he produced for Lucas , by shooting some action sequences with most of the picture area on the negative blocked off , then — working from a test strip just before the main action — matching the matte painting to the unexposed area and finally compositing action and painting together . |
| 5 | While other seagulls fly in order to catch food , he has higher aspirations . |
| 6 | Oh , Milord must n't lose one precious minute of his time or attention when he has better things to do . |
| 7 | He has better things to do than hang around the Tower answering idle questions whilst good men are killed and the murderer walks scot free . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And even though most would have been quite happy to get where I had got at that age , I believe that a man is nothing unless he believes he has greater possibilities . |
| 9 | He promised tougher measures to beat the criminals . |
| 10 | But he wants firmer guarantees on the status of the Hungarian minority , in particular , group rights rather than individual rights for all Romanians . |
| 11 | He wants tighter controls on the sales . |
| 12 | He wants tougher powers for the police . |
| 13 | After Kristallnacht he forbade further attacks on Jews and tried to have the worst ringleaders punished by the courts . |
| 14 | I said he 'd better things to do than roam about up there . ’ |
| 15 | He turned further sheets of paper . |
| 16 | With other partners he developed wider markets . |
| 17 | He undertook further expeditions between 1903 and 1911 over little-explored territory . |
| 18 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 19 | The EC 's delegate to the talks , Pablo Benavides , said afterwards that he thought further talks would be unproductive and that the two parties should refer their dispute to the International Court of Justice . |
| 20 | While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US . |
| 21 | While he said the AS/400 may well be taken up at existing IBM Corp sites and by medium-sized firms , he feels larger organisations will be less eager in Europe than in the US . |
| 22 | Then he saw bolder colours : huge red crosses against a white panel on a muddy truck . |
| 23 | He liked the idea of tricking batsmen from the moment he saw older boys having a go in the nets . |
| 24 | The expansiveness came to an end in the middle of 1940 , when he demanded better terms for Cotton Town than had been offered : ‘ The first book did well for you ( for me too , I readily admit ) , and since I may soon be called up , and have a wife and child to support , I should like to leave them as well provided for as possible . ’ |
| 25 | A LABOUR backbencher brandished a foot-long knife in the Commons yesterday as he demanded tougher laws against carrying weapons in Scotland . |
| 26 | Keane , who has also been tracked by Manchester United , Arsenal and Aston Villa , was waiting another 24 hours while he completed further negotiations . |
| 27 | He attributed earlier failures to inadequate intelligence and sent a number of agents to England , including an engineer skilled in map-making , Captain Louis de la Rozière , who was installed , supposedly as a diplomat , in London . |
| 28 | This will amuse you , he said he liked older women . ’ |
| 29 | erm , and erm he sells smaller bits , but they are cheaper , obviously , and his are eighty centimetre cube of gold , okay ? |
| 30 | He had better things to do than argue the toss . |