Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accept her cold rebuffs without anger or impatience ; be there for her as best he might in the fond hope that this dreary rain must cease , that Spring must come again , and she might wake one day to that glorious span of light across the water-meadows . |
| 2 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 3 | Finally , Lear resigned himself to Gould 's impenetrable isolation , and , in a letter written in 1863 , came as close as he could to an objective description of his former employer and erstwhile friend : ‘ A more singularly offensive mannered man than G. hardly can be : but the queer fellow means well , tho 's more of an Egotist than can be described . ’ |
| 4 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 5 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 6 | ‘ I will go up to the roof , just remember though to tell them to send a ladder up there ’ said Ralph ‘ Take the child with you and hurry ’ And with that Carter ran as fast as he could through the dark air with the lady and child and before long he was out Ralph 's sight . |
| 7 | So he lay hunched on the floor of the saloon and breathed as best he could through the thick hood . |
| 8 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 9 | He was a good-looking man with his jet-black hair and intimidating jawline , but she had encountered any number far more handsome , yet none had stirred her the way he could with a single glance from those incredible eyes . |
| 10 | However , he will always know that his performance on a simulator is being assessed and , except for the business of risks , he may well take more care than he would in a real plant . |
| 11 | ( b ) As chairman of the cabinet , he can to a large extent determine the nature of discussions within cabinet . |