Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This he kneaded into a pulp and then gave to Cleo to hold against her scratched cheek . |
| 32 | His unfortunate appearance , and lack of education , was offset by a compelling personality , and in 1876 he embarked on an affair with a neighbour , the much younger Katherine Dyson . |
| 33 | There was no hope for Nkrumah ; he had contracted cancer and on 27 April 1972 he died in a Bucharest hospital , aged 63 . |
| 34 | In the 1890s he participated in the reorganization of Argentina 's external debt and in the 1900s restored Argentina 's credit in London . |
| 35 | Between 1863 and 1872 he worked as a demonstrator at the Pharmaceutical Society under Professor John Attfield ; he also obtained a B.Sc. |
| 36 | And he also wanted Mr Fallon to make it clear he agreed with the interpretation of the 1944 Education Act saying every Catholic child was entitled to a Catholic education . |
| 37 | The Intel 80860 he described as a good implementation of a poorly thought-out microprocessor architecture . |
| 38 | In 1639–40 he acted as a secret courier , disguised as a commercial traveller , for the English opposition leaders in their clandestine — if not treasonable — correspondence with the Scottish Covenanters . |
| 39 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 40 | In 1801 he took as a partner Anthony Newman , and was himself replaced by John Darling in 1809 . |
| 41 | In 1801 he participated in the expedition to Egypt , and served in Hanover in 1805 and at the taking of Copenhagen two years later . |
| 42 | In 1808 he moved into the Wordsworths ' new house , Allan Bank , together with his two sons , and after the usual long preliminaries embarked on his new periodical venture , The Friend . |
| 43 | And sometimes Hywel goes out in the day with his gun and he shoots rabbits and pigeons and crows and foxes , and some he brings home to eat , and some he hangs in the hedges to remind the world that there is death . |
| 44 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 45 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 46 | At the end of 1985 he qualified as a solicitor ( ‘ this was the safety net and I had written my thesis on the copyright laws , which has been very useful to me ’ ) , but he had already decided to take the plunge as a full time professional musician . |
| 47 | ‘ Nikolai Demidenko is recognised as being one of the most immensely gifted pianists of his generation … in 1985 he played with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra to a packed Ulster Hall during the Belfast Festival at Queen 's . |
| 48 | In November 1985 he resigned from the government in protest at the signing that month of the Anglo-Irish Agreement [ see pp. 34070-73 ] , stating that he could not support the government 's change of policy on Northern Ireland , including " the involvement of a foreign power in a consultative role in the administration of the province " , which he claimed would prolong and not diminish " Ulster 's agony " [ see p. 34072 ] . |
| 49 | On Sept. 30 he called on the UN to supervise local elections . |
| 50 | On Sept. 30 he called for the first time for dialogue to reach an equitable global settlement , addressing himself particularly to France which he had identified as more flexible [ see below for Mitterrand 's UN speech ] , although once again stressing that there would be no compromise over Kuwait belonging to Iraq . |
| 51 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 52 | But Mark bounced back and in 1983–4 he went on an expedition in search of the head-hunting tribes of Indonesia , the Orang-hutan . |
| 53 | He was awarded his BA in 1898 , and during the years between that date and 1903 he worked as a schoolmaster and tried a number of other jobs . |
| 54 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 55 | On Sept. 22 he resurfaced in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este , declaring that he would not be returning to France to face charges because he had reason to fear an assassination attempt . |
| 56 | I 'm afraid he met with an accident last night . |
| 57 | ‘ And when he was recovering from his sickness here in my house , I noticed how similar he looked to the girl 's face in the picture . |
| 58 | In 1678 he applied for a patent for a new way of processing flax , which may have been related to investigations of this topic made under the society 's auspices in the 1660s . |
| 59 | In the 1650s Howard evidently also developed an interest in industrial practices , and on 27 October 1660 he applied for a patent for a new method of tanning , the subject of a printed broadsheet , Brief directions how to Tanne Leather according to a new Invention ( n.d . ) . |
| 60 | In 1874 he went to the Barrow Shipbuilding Co. as manager of the water-tube boiler department , becoming secretary in 1876 . |