Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] he [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Box ( 1987 ) argues that crimes committed by corporations , businesses and professions are likely to increase in times of economic recession although he admits that the evidence is less strong than for ‘ conventional ’ crimes ( see Chapter Four ) . |
| 2 | But could that not be a new chance for a man to find in later life ‘ an emotional experience that he missed when his children were young ’ ? |
| 3 | Galileo , however , achieved a telling differentiation when he argued that nature had a language all its own . |
| 4 | Vortai would scream bloody murder when he heard that his herds were being culled . |
| 5 | It is a stately cliff of a semi in Holland Park now lashed together against a neighbouring stately semi because he found that this was the best way to double his garden space . |
| 6 | He 'd had to break off for lack of an English verb that he remembered as soon as Bacci pronounced it . |
| 7 | It was only by craning his neck to a painful degree that he saw that he was suspended in mid-air , a foot or so above the sea . |
| 8 | But it is this commercial work that he sees as fulfilling a far more important function — it is the means by which he is able to fund his own personal projects . |
| 9 | She was married for three months to poor old Louis before he collapsed and died of exhaustion and Mary went home to marry the love of her life , Charles Brandon , Duke of Suffolk . |
| 10 | His is an attempt to put emotions firmly back into studies of social behaviour and he concludes that catharsis is a potentially useful mechanism for psychic health , and that repression of emotions produces instability . |
| 11 | Rance tried to convince Aung San of British goodwill but he replied that when Dorman-Smith had first returned ‘ there was more goodwill being shown by Burmese to the British than ever before ’ . |
| 12 | I gave way to the hon. Gentleman because he felt that his point was important , but it is covered by section 12(1) of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 13 | In many respects , Finniston was ahead of his time in the management policies he adopted during the period he was chairman of British Steel but he stresses that commercial strategy without enlightened personnel policies can never be successful . |
| 14 | It was raised by Dudek in somewhat different form when he said that Leonard ‘ always had an image of himself as a rabbi . ’ |
| 15 | Dawkins 's approach to evolution was presented in characteristically entertaining form when he suggested that the organism is ‘ … a robot vehicle blindly programmed to preserve its selfish genes ’ . |
| 16 | He did n't see where their baskets were filled , but he observed that soldiers had been appointed to escort each laden man to his house , and that the man 's chin would already be glistening , from the raw food that he chewed as he hastened . |
| 17 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 18 | Ponting 's defence was that he was acting in the public interest since he felt that the government was trying to mislead Parliament . |
| 19 | He said it was a very sad case but he added that if the Harrises do n't pay up this time it 's most unlikely that their eviction will be postponed again . |
| 20 | If she had come into his mind he had operated his cancelling switch as he did when any of the denizens of Ecalpemos strayed into his thoughts . |
| 21 | It was Dr John Burton , however , who left the classic example of outside prejudice when he observed that the local roads bred two memorable creatures , ungainly spindle-shaped oxen and beautiful long-legged women . |
| 22 | In John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , Jimmy Porter may indicate a real feature of the contemporary scene when he complains that his Sunday newspaper contains ‘ three whole columns on the English Novel . |
| 23 | We were shooting the film in North Wales in a terrible wet month in a tiny village and he smoked and read and did his crosswords and smoked . |
| 24 | Instead she got a little sardonic bow and he turned and left . |
| 25 | He draws inspiration from ordinary scenes and simple places that he knows and loves . |
| 26 | Barnes had been given the bird for an earlier kicking failure but he converted that try with such a fine kick that he felt entitled to make an equalising gesture to the crowd . |
| 27 | Professor Fei Xiaotong of Beijing University was the chairman of the biggest Democratic party called the Democratic Alliance and he claimed that this party represented the interests of intellectuals and especially intellectuals involved in teaching ( Chan 1989 : 83 ) . |
| 28 | He did not think that the boy was the actual thief and he hoped that the boy would not be punished . |
| 29 | He was a convinced evolutionist and he thought that one could draw a line from the Egyptian lotus to the Greek palmette and from the Greek palmette to the acanthus which then developed into the arabesque like a biological affiliation . |
| 30 | The girl remained unseen , but the man emerged a moment later , his eyes , as they caught Huy 's , switching from initial guilt to fraternal collusion as he saw that Huy was someone he did not know . |