Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 15 months after his last appearance in the ring he still takes pride in being called a boxer . |
| 2 | Apart from relief of intestinal obstruction he also experienced relief of dysphagia that supported the hypothesis that oesophagitis had developed secondary to vomiting in the presence of large bowel obstruction . |
| 3 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 4 | During his time as Head Gardener he planted several M. soulangeana and after the Second World War he also planted M. kobus , M. mollicomata , M. sinensis , M. stellata and M. acuminata . |
| 5 | During this period he also studied painting under Charles Lucy [ q.v. ] in London and Paris , and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849 , 1850 , and 1851 . |
| 6 | Towards the end of this period he also became chairman of the Port of London Authority . |
| 7 | Capitalizing on this patriotic British theme he soon manufactured furniture made of native woods and decorated with elaborate brass inlay based upon native plants , depicting hops , for instance , instead of grapes . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll do what I can , ’ Parmedes said resignedly , cursing the day he ever set foot in Club Eleusis . |
| 9 | The Profitboss likes action , and by definition he never sees action on the board . |
| 10 | In a theatre he frequently took refuge in a lavatory — not to solve his omnipresent bowel problems necessarily but to escape from autograph-hunters . |
| 11 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |
| 12 | One minute he was just standing there — and the next instant he suddenly grabbed hold of Laura , quickly scooping her tall , slender body up into his arms before carrying the struggling figure of the girl towards his large limousine . |
| 13 | In addition he once observed self-masturbation to ejaculation and the manual masturbation of companions . |
| 14 | Bhanu Pratap ( Singh , the state Governor , declared that the decision had been taken largely because of the serious law and order situation , but in his statement he openly defied convention by issuing a political message which questioned Gandhi 's right to be involved in the state 's politics . |
| 15 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 16 | Every day before and after school he faithfully practised reading and writing and occasionally when Emilia Thorne returned from the library she would pop round , when Tom was out on Fire Duty , and sit with him . |
| 17 | That same year he also published Hindoo Holiday , based on his Indian diaries . |
| 18 | Having discovered the true position he successfully claimed recovery of all dues paid in respect of exempted limestone . |
| 19 | For the chief defect of parliamentary democracy is that it is representative : when a person elects a representative he necessarily surrenders part of his sovereignty to him . |
| 20 | When a brownie adopts a house he happily takes responsibility for many household tasks , which he performs at night . |
| 21 | He was quoting Maria Filippa , though to her face he usually took issue with her credulity , as he called it . |
| 22 | Why hurt another girl by pretending an interest he did n't feel when she , Gina , was already on the scene — a woman for whose family he only felt contempt and whose imminent departure was already planned ? |
| 23 | As a result of his injury he sometimes lost control of his leg . |
| 24 | For years he had plodded on in a series of jobs on building sites — and at one stage he even played football as a semi-professional in Ireland . |
| 25 | Utterly determined on success , he adopted a dandyish nonchalance and seemed to run the College from his armchair in the Senior Common Room when in fact he frequently undertook paper work late into the night . |
| 26 | It is not possible or necessary to consider this question fully here , but a consideration of the texts of Scaevola shows that in fact he too took account of the scientia of buyers when considering the availability of missio . |