Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he began to build his first full-size glider , the Bat ; it had pronounced dihedral , and was fitted with a rudder but no tailplane . |
| 2 | This he continued to do until his illness confined him first to his room and finally to his bed . |
| 3 | This he continued to do — between jaw-jutting in that peculiar Mussolini-meets-Foghorn Leghorn manner of his — until the brass-necked wonder that is still ‘ It 's On ’ . |
| 4 | In any case , a Conservative-Liberal alliance to exclude Labour from office depended on Asquith 's support ; and this he declined to countenance , in spite of what he described as ‘ appeals , threats , prayers from all parts , and from all sorts and conditions of men , women and lunatics , to step in and save the country from the horrors of Socialism and Confiscation ’ . |
| 5 | To do this he had to lean over and push the bolt firmly into place . |
| 6 | To do this he had to resign from Teledyne Geotech , but their loss was treasure hunting 's gain . |
| 7 | In all this he managed to avoid a direct confrontation with the security forces . |
| 8 | Perhaps by analogy with this he began to see that animal species too are in a state of dynamic equilibrium with one another and with the environment , an equilibrium that can easily be disturbed by geological changes or by the immigration of new species into the area . |
| 9 | Reynolds went back and found an electric flashlight by the boiler , and with this he began to stab and search through the first of the three rooms . |
| 10 | This he proceeded to do , producing in 1832 a little brochure entitled Rêveries politiques , followed in 1835 by a Manuel d'artillerie . |
| 11 | This he proceeded to apply directly to the process of recruitment . |
| 12 | What the coroner was going to say to all this he dreaded to think . |
| 13 | The basic theoretical problem had been to show how two or more autonomous and contradictory totalizations make up one dialectical intelligibility : to do this he needed to totalize the classes in struggle , and to discover the synthetic unity of a conflictual society . |
| 14 | To do this he has to employ language and gesture appropriate to the context in which he finds himself — he may shout ‘ Halt ! ’ or give a salute on an army parade ground , but not at a picnic . |
| 15 | For this he has to thank — or curse — Mr Glanville , a nineteenth century vicar of Sheviock . |
| 16 | To do this he has to set himself up as one of the scared people of the modern world , a textbook example of homo neuroticus . |
| 17 | His ‘ myth ’ has the same status as hers , though later when scientists attempt to verify this he has to alter the chemical composition of his exterior in order to substantiate his claim . |
| 18 | Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much . |
| 19 | Besides this he needs to seek the help of the Holy Spirit , through whom Scripture was written , to illuminate its meaning . |
| 20 | After a couple of minutes of this he decided to go back to Elstree . |
| 21 | This he refused to accept , and in consequence was given a Form 2 , which was the equivalent to a dismissal notice , if the client was found guilty . |
| 22 | After this he seems to have retired for a time to his Scottish estates . |
| 23 | In recognition of this he promised to alter the style of his campaign in order to avoid attacks on Bush which could prejudice his chances of victory in the November election . |
| 24 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |
| 25 | This was indeed the case in the original proposal of Boltzmann , when in 1876 he sought to explain the experiments of Weber and Kohlrausch on the elastic after-effect in twisted wires . |
| 26 | James Hann , Scottish Nuclear 's chairman has made it clear he wants to continue buying fuel from BNF but has said he is prepared to look abroad if he ca n't obtain a reasonable price . |
| 27 | Anyway you its funny he wanted to insist that my husband should be there and I said I can decide do n't worry . |
| 28 | In about 1479 he offered to sell a de Vere property in London to the royal servant John Risley . |
| 29 | In about 1479 he offered to sell a de Vere property in London to the royal servant John Risley . |
| 30 | In public he continued to argue that Nato 's conventional forces were needed essentially to handle a small incident — the most likely kind of military crisis in his view . |