Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A bourgeois , a man of the moderate liberal left , and unquestionably ready to confront the forces of conservatism and religion from the late 1850s ( though not before ) , he politely rejected the offer of Karl Marx to dedicate the second volume of Capital to him . |
| 32 | He politely turned the girl down and waited to be admitted to Bronson Manolo 's office . |
| 33 | Dad Ron had by now qualified as an accountant and he eventually landed a job with the local council . |
| 34 | Unfortunately the Reichsführer had second thoughts when told no less than 800,000 Russians had volunteered for service : he eventually authorised the creation of just two divisions . |
| 35 | I am sure it will benefit Gareth Simmonds when he eventually becomes a panel referee . |
| 36 | He had his own clergy attached to his cathedral , and gradually he eventually acquired a parish clergy over whom he could sometimes exercise control . |
| 37 | However , his hold on power was weakened by the result and he eventually formed a minority coalition with the Liberals ( Venstre ) . |
| 38 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 39 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |
| 40 | He eventually got the hang of it but to this day , keeps well clear of water . |
| 41 | His repeated warnings of the effect of the United Front on the ILP had been ignored by the National Administrative Council and he eventually left the party altogether and returned to the Labour Party . |
| 42 | Jim 's father has a chronic drink problem and he eventually put the family out of their house . |
| 43 | There is a reference in a letter from one of his dependents that he eventually took a passage home from Corfu on a naval vessel in 1843 ; and that an 1851 census shows that he was living with his wife and two of his daughters at Longhorsley , his birthplace . |
| 44 | In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go . |
| 45 | The ambitious soldier can expect a similar progression , from Commander of the Bath when he becomes brigadier , to KCB when he reaches lieutenant-general and GCB when he eventually storms the summit of military life . |
| 46 | He eventually stopped the car and tried to escape , but was caught by police after a short chase . |
| 47 | He eventually finds the contentment he needs through an admirable way , through Joe , when he is treating Pip on his sick bed , as we see here |
| 48 | The second Mr. Rainsford appears to have got the message and abandoned the trade after five or six years , and he eventually leased the brewery in 1715 to John Paul Espinasse , an ale brewer of Huguenot extraction . |
| 49 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 50 | He successfully negotiated the repeal of a clause in the statute of 4 & 5 Philip and Mary , c.5 , which seriously prejudiced west-country clothiers ' interests ( 43 Eliz. , c.10 ) , and was one of three who persuaded the French to repeal , in February 1606 , a decree prohibiting the import of English tentered cloth . |
| 51 | His retention of the custody of a number of escheated royal honours in Essex and of Hadleigh Castle ( originally granted to him in July 1264 ) until the end of 1265 or beginning of 1266 , and his subsequent association with John de Burgh in June 1266 in the keeping of the peace in the counties of Essex and Hertfordshire , indicate that he successfully negotiated the transition from Montfortian rule to royalist restoration after the battle of Evesham . |
| 52 | Very quickly , however , his superiors recognized his talent for understanding and winning the goodwill of Africans , as when he successfully resolved a dispute with the rulers of Old Calabar , upon which the settlement was largely dependent for foodstuffs . |
| 53 | Either way he successfully wrecked the morale of Western intelligence by encouraging ludicrous molehunts and sowing seeds of discontent and suspicion that remain to this day . |
| 54 | At home , he successfully advocated a return to fiscal orthodoxy , ‘ sound money ’ , and the gold standard . |
| 55 | Since he successfully sued The Face for alleging he was gay and a hypocrite for denying it , he has attracted a lot of abuse . |
| 56 | He successfully repaired the engine and could not resist the chance of seeing Brooklands , the centre of British Aviation . |
| 57 | He also experimented with lighter-than-air flight : he wrote three papers on airships in the Philosophical Magazine ( February 1816–July 1817 ) of Alexander Tilloch [ q.v. ] , and in 1820 he successfully flew a model airship at Brompton . |
| 58 | He also built several handsome examples in masonry ; and , most important , at the Ouseburn and Willington Dene bridges ( 1836–9 , demolished ) on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway and in a number of subsequent examples he successfully employed a system of laminated timber arches , which , for a short time , was widely imitated in railway-bridge construction . |
| 59 | Owen was a staunch supporter of Cuvier 's views on discontinuity , and he successfully emphasized the milk glands at the expense of the egg-laying in order to keep the platypus firmly within the mammals . |
| 60 | He single-handedly dragged the punt to the top of the portage , where it balanced precariously . |