Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 2 | He was an exception among the British dancers in wanting to find our as much as he could about American ballet teachers . |
| 3 | We hammered on the door for the gaoler and returned to the main gates of the prison where Benjamin left a coin and instructed the sadistic bastard to do what he could for poor Taplow . |
| 4 | He has got tremendous vision and in midfield he can express himself that bit more than he could at right back . |
| 5 | By contrast , if the forged words were not in the documents , he could with pardonable exaggeration use the words ultimum quasi robur . |
| 6 | He emerges as a man with a big heart and a clever mind who did the best he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 7 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 8 | I would n't of thought he 'd of worried too much about the outside . |
| 9 | He would in general recognize as as-if rights those declared by other judges in past decisions , but again he would not include all such decisions . |
| 10 | Foo saw the waves as a watery pyre , where he would in due course achieve martyrdom . |
| 11 | There was then little belief in the value of the Coalition Liberals , but a strong belief in the value of Lloyd George ; he would be a good advocate with the new electorate and he would in due course be disarmed as Chamberlain had been . |
| 12 | Such use may be an infringement of any design rights that the buyer has in the designs embodied in these tools , but he will in general prefer to avoid the attempt to invoke these rights , and instead to rely on a provision like cll 8.1 and 8.2 of Precedent 2 . |
| 13 | There is only one reservation : should Miss Jade bear a daughter , can Mr Jagger guarantee that he will in future years be able to keep her away from the attentions of his bass ( sic ) colleague , Mr William Wyman ? |
| 14 | He in turn comforts them as best he can with modern medicine . |
| 15 | After all , unless we can show that we are able to do better with the totality of the sums , and the totality of the business , why should any shareholder believe that we know better how to deal with his money if we are to invest in areas outside our particular expertise , than he can by individual investments ? |