Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [noun] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | You simply have to try to organize each day so that the patient has enough , but not too many , useful , interesting and pleasurable activities to occupy him . |
| 2 | These limits will be flexible and change as the child grows but the aim is to help the child learn the appropriate social and emotional behaviours to help him survive in society . |
| 3 | His academic background in mechanical and electrical engineering gives him a sound grasp of a broad range of scientific disciplines . |
| 4 | Two seasons ago he guided the club to the elusive league and championship double , but both in 1991 and 1992 success eluded him . |
| 5 | His two most recent books on Bulgaria 's political and economic restructuring netted him 42,000 levs , which is a 14-year salary for an average Bulgarian . |
| 6 | When Mint and Boxed collapsed , many of Levitt 's rich and powerful contacts deserted him in droves . |
| 7 | If the terms survive the drafting process the resultant consent order will be not only clear , but specific and any party binding him or herself to it will know precisely what has been accepted and what is the commitment . |
| 8 | His light-hearted and friendly manner enabled him to put over a very strong sales pitch without a hint of strain . |
| 9 | Gould 's wife had spent the months that he was away over Christmas and New Year patiently labouring over her sketchbooks and specimens , and had a stack of botanical and ornithological drawings to present him with when he returned . |
| 10 | There , his quick and brilliant mind gained him a degree in electrical engineering and a well defined career path with the Texas Instruments and Teledyne Geotech companies , with whom he was to make his not inconsiderable input to NASA 's Apollo Space Programme . |
| 11 | Ha , the power to order this remarkable and disturbing woman to address him intimately . |
| 12 | In the smaller areas he starts with pure watercolour but then uses white and yellow acrylic to enable him to work back light over dark . |
| 13 | He would not have created around him such a large and adoring circle had he not had very real capacities as a teacher , a gift for friendship and for infecting others with his passion for art , literature , films and music as well as a readiness to share in the post-war desire for a better world . |
| 14 | To confess with a canvas chair as a prie-Dieu , gouging at his heart until a rough and stupid hand bade him rise and go ? |
| 15 | Overall , his churches and houses are no more than pleasant provincial work — examples are the rebuilding of St Julian 's church in Shrewsbury ( 1749–50 ) and Hatton Grange , Shropshire ( 1764–8 ) — but his decorative and funerary designs reveal him as a highly competent exponent of both the rococo style and the Gothic manner of Batty Langley [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | Their first approach , late at night in his hotel room , came a week after he had received his sister 's long and excited letter telling him of her marriage . |
| 17 | The theory that the poet had access to deep and primitive levels put him awkwardly alongside the Romantic ‘ explorers ’ . |
| 18 | He had considered that he was having a heart attack ; that would explain the pains in his side and the hot and cold sweats tormenting him . |
| 19 | Thin sections of the first and third molars allowed him to demonstrate in roughly half the skeletons the residual lesions of sunlight deficiency rickets that had developed between infancy and age ten . |
| 20 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 21 | He provided the first , because a stable , prosperous and expanding capitalism needed him , offered him prospects of modest improvement , and in any case now seemed inescapable . |
| 22 | Indeed , sometimes killing can end a deadlock or cut short suffering , and I think that this happened in Eddie' case — he would have lived an isolated and miserable life had he not been killed , so Marco almost did him a favour . |
| 23 | He had of course his grasp of military and diplomatic practice to help him ; and he was firmly convinced that the Roman constitution was open to analysis in Greek terms . |
| 24 | He drew a sharp breath , as a new and appalling idea struck him . |
| 25 | Why the horror , why the compulsive fascination , by what despairing route had this new and unexpected compulsion carried him through semi-tropical plants in a glass lift to an afternoon such as he would sworn never to attend — he did not know . |
| 26 | We have all been brought up in awe of Sir Robert Walpole , regarding that continuous spell of his in office from 1714 to 1741 as a model of the politician 's craft but aware of the paradox that public opinion at last broke through the barriers of a corrupted and corruptible and minuscule electorate to overthrow him . |
| 27 | Bob Halton , not guilty enough , but confused by his mother 's spoiling and manipulative efforts to keep him for herself , is petrified of being taken over completely . |
| 28 | His bright and affectionate nature won him numerous friends from earliest schooldays . |
| 29 | The end came this year during a charity concert ; Semie managed to complete his encore , but collapsed immediately afterwards — a true musician 's exit , and we 're lucky to have such bizarre and wonderful instruments to remember him by . |