Example sentences of "of [adj] he [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Italian surrender in the summer of 1943 he privately reckoned the chances of a similar German collapse at six to four against ; and he recognised , partly under pressure from Attlee and others on the Labour side , that he ought to appoint a senior Minister to co-ordinate the planning of reconstruction . |
| 2 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 3 | Because of this he often failed to bring about cures and eventually became disillusioned with hypnosis as a form of therapy . |
| 4 | In the spring of 1660 he vainly produced his papers to George Monck , first Duke of Albemarle [ q.v. ] , and others to form the basis of a bill setting out terms for the restoration of Charles II . |
| 5 | and he 's a lovely person , he 's full of fun and everything but he , he 's one of these he always says he 's coming and never comes . |
| 6 | At the age of 77 he still trains regularly , keeping fit he says was the best part of his career . |
| 7 | Oliphant , a nuclear physicist , was new to radio technology — as were most of those he later recruited . |
| 8 | That at the age of 60 he still commanded support from the government and public is shown by various events in 1800 , linked with a competition for a second chef : ( The finalists were required to rehearse a new work and direct a public performance : sufficient evidence , if needed , of the central responsibility of the post . ) |
| 9 | For 133 days in 1988 Lyle had led the US Money List , he had won the Phoenix , Greensboro and Masters titles and in the first months of 1989 he twice came second . |
| 10 | In September of 1155 he finally departed for Germany , to embark upon a further programme of reorganisation in his homeland . |