Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By so differentiating he described both the characteristics of his villagers and the typical gestures which enabled them to tell their tale ( see page 59 ) . |
| 32 | As always , the risk element was the icing on the cake as far as he was concerned He breathed in the fine night air and hummed the tune of Colonel Bogey in time with his silent footsteps . |
| 33 | But as far as the others were concerned he had n't a clue , and , rack his brains as he might , he had very little idea how he could find out . |
| 34 | In 1978 he took up a Senior Registrar post in Diabetes at the General Hospital , Birmingham , and in 1981 his present post as Consultant Physician at Dudley Road Hospital , Birmingham . |
| 35 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 36 | His firm sent him for a month to another part of the country , and at first he telephoned home every night ; but three weeks later she got a letter saying that he had met another woman and was planning to marry her as soon as possible . |
| 37 | First he handed over a bundle of Russian paper money that was little bigger than a wad of visiting cards , and some coins jangled . |
| 38 | He went to a good local school , where at 16 he put together a weekly ‘ radio ’ programme on the loudspeakers , and then read International Politics at the University of the West Indies before moving into local radio and TV . |
| 39 | Yet he was not at this stage prepared to risk open war on their behalf ; although he disliked the peace of 1328 he had neither the resources nor the general political support for a renewal of the Scottish war . |
| 40 | In 1961 he set up a working group , in the Ministry , ‘ to study the long term development of roads and traffic in urban areas and their influence on the urban environment ’ ; the leader was Colin Buchanan . |
| 41 | In 1441 he took over the work from two Venetian architects and supervised the work for the next three decades . |
| 42 | On 2 April 1746 he gave up the attempt and headed hastily north ‘ in a great hurry and confusion ’ . |
| 43 | Before turning professional in 1970 he won both the British Youth and English Amateur Championships . |
| 44 | At p. 254 he explained how the judges were using a power derived from the Crown as the fountain of justice when they conferred authority on the benchers of the Inns of Court to act as their delegates in maintaining the discipline of the Bar . |
| 45 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 46 | In each he jots down an initial point — " 1 . |
| 47 | In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas . |
| 48 | He did come close to going on pension once at the age of 75 he sent off a perfunctory letter asking for retirement . |
| 49 | ‘ Apart from that he went out every Sunday after breakfast and he usually came back late . |
| 50 | The Portadown player had to work in the first couple of frames but after that he stepped up a gear and dismissed the English player almost scornfully . |
| 51 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 52 | Run For Free did his best to eject Mark Perrett seven from home , but apart from that he put up a superb display of jumping . |
| 53 | Hence in the Budget of 1907 he took only a first step towards graduation by introducing into the tax system different rates of tax for earned and unearned income . |
| 54 | In 1951 he took on the vice-presidency of the newly formed Musician 's Organization for Peace . |
| 55 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 56 | From 1331 to 1336 he carried on a bitter dispute with Bishop William de Ayreminne of Norwich [ q.v . ] . |
| 57 | He could see that refrigeration would bring about a complete change in people 's lifestyles and in 1880 he took over the patents of the Bell–Coleman cold-air machine and developed what was known as the dry air refrigerator . |
| 58 | In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ . |
| 59 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 60 | At about four he rang up the number given him for Gerald Seymour-Strachey , but he was answered by a not too refined woman 's voice — a voice with a touch of the treacle tart in it , and a touch of the plain tart as well . |