Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 2 | Promoted to Field Marshall in 1895 he died in 1914 of pneumonia at the Front in France where he was visiting Indian divisions . |
| 3 | To achieve this he takes in atmospheric air at the water surface and blows out mucus coated bubbles which adhere to each other and also to plant matter . |
| 4 | This he achieved by using his knowledge of Zen , an ancient philosophy that he has studied ‘ on and off ’ for many years . |
| 5 | This he achieved by getting along to the Frog and Ferret at about eleven each morning , where he spent hours in conversation with George ‘ This is My Coronary ’ Parker . |
| 6 | This he tested on a single patient in 1755 . |
| 7 | For this he relied upon Reg. v. Apicella ( 1985 ) 82 Cr.App.R. 295 and Director of Public Prosecutions v. Marshall [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 8 | This he effected by intervention in the local state on ground cleared by the trades boards , the attempted decasualisation of dock labour , and the use of local authority workforces to promote more radical demands on the national state for solutions to crises experienced in local economies . |
| 9 | When Rameshwar read this he went to Tukaram and praised his greatness and goodness . |
| 10 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |
| 11 | This he refers to as ‘ cultural defence ’ . |
| 12 | This he blamed on a lack of enterprise : ‘ There is no continuity of effort among your producers , ’ he said , ‘ They work too hastily and in too small a way . ’ |
| 13 | For the horologist the nominal essence of the clock is an idea of its real essence ; in this he differs from the gazing countryman , to whom the nominal essence is simply some combination of various observable features . |
| 14 | This he accomplished at the sea-battle of Svold , on 9 September 999 . |
| 15 | All this he left to Mother . |
| 16 | This he returned to its position beneath the layer of coffee grounds . |
| 17 | On 17 February 1895 Milne 's Tokyo house and observatory were destroyed by fire , and shortly after this he returned to England , settling at Shide Hill House , Isle of Wight . |
| 18 | This he accepted in 1862 and remained there for the rest of his life , being left free to pursue his own research . |
| 19 | This he describes as a ‘ complete upheaval ’ . |
| 20 | Hahnemann therefore had to move frequently as restrictions on his practice were imposed in one town after another , but despite this he lectured for a time on homoeopathy in the University of Leipzig and he had a large band of influential patrons and supporters as well as a number of able and gifted pupils . |
| 21 | This he purchased by forming a small syndicate in 1897 , taking for himself the office of managing director . |
| 22 | This he expected from Turnour 's voice , manner and the way he looked as he was sitting . |
| 23 | Another of his favourites seems to have been a tomato jam ; this he uses for a sweet called Peaches Barbara with cream and kirschwasser and pistachio nuts . |
| 24 | All this he told to Glorious and his friends . |
| 25 | Izanagi possessed a magical jewelled spear and this he flung into the endless water , creating the first land-mass from its point . |
| 26 | This he does at the highest level in the HERMS file structure , defining boxes in the work file for sub-teams to work within and inputting technical details as text in the technical file ; this latter entry could be considerable . |
| 27 | This he does by turning straight up , with his head towards the surface and wraps his body around to show off his lovely colours . |
| 28 | All of this he offered in a variety of poetic forms , from the traditional quatrain to the more controversial prose-poem ‘ Friends ’ . |
| 29 | As he thought this he felt in his heart a voiceless nameless twinge , like a tiny spark , which he chose to identify as a signal , which very rarely came through , from his ancestors who had lived in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw . |
| 30 | At this he seemed to liven up , and went back to being Oliver . |