Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 2 | At one point he faints , and as he slowly regains consciousness he imagines that he is being ordered to ‘ merge ’ through ‘ osmosis ’ ( 109/111 ) . |
| 3 | In his Life of Hooker Walton states that in the original lost manuscripts there was no mention of kings being accountable to the people ; and he relates how Charles I , in a discussion with the Parliamentary leader Lord Saye , refused to accept any arguments based on the last three books , because it was doubtful whether they were authentic , although he gladly accepted Hooker 's judgements in the first five . |
| 4 | He vigorously defended astrology in a sermon ( later published as Signa Coeli : The Signs of Heaven , 1652 ) preached the day before the notorious ‘ Black Monday ’ , the solar eclipse of 29 March 1652 . |
| 5 | Belfast councillor John Carson has been reported to his North Belfast Unionist Constituency Association over allegations that he verbally assaulted party member Fred Proctor . |
| 6 | There are longueurs in Act I , but he skilfully deflects attention from them by a deft account of the ballet music and by letting us admire the much improved state of the Royal Opera chorus . |
| 7 | Commissioned as an administrative officer , he eventually became adjutant to the commander of the tactical air force , based at Larisa in central Greece , and made a point of being around whenever any representatives of civil suppliers appeared at headquarters to make presentations . |
| 8 | His meeting with those he eventually took hostage in San José was reported as being part of his negotiation with the Honduran government , mediated by Fishman , over the return of two Hondurans who had " disappeared " eight years previously . |
| 9 | He eventually found solace in religion . |
| 10 | His empire was badly shaken by the October 1987 worldwide stock market crash [ see pp. 37540-41 , and he eventually lost control of the Bell Group to fellow Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond . |
| 11 | He eventually lost interest . |
| 12 | Perhaps inevitably , he eventually contracted typhus at Kherson , in the Crimea , in January 1790 and was dead within a few days . |
| 13 | Instead he sarcastically portrays Hall in anything but a true light . |
| 14 | He successfully defended rowing as an Olympic sport and in 1976 introduced women 's events , which have now expanded to six classes . |
| 15 | He successfully resisted treatment , and he returned home from the clinic describing himself , and I use his own words , as being ‘ fantastically ill ’ . |
| 16 | Having discovered the true position he successfully claimed recovery of all dues paid in respect of exempted limestone . |
| 17 | He successfully petitioned parliament to reverse the judgement of 1322 against his cousin Mortimer of Chirk , but declared himself his uncle 's heir and expropriated his lands despite the fact that his uncle had a son and grandson living . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a guy on the phone says that he 's Linford Christie , the European Indoor athletics ’ champion , and he badly needs help . ’ |
| 19 | So I said , he 's a casual friend of mine , he 's quite old , but he 's a very good painter , and he badly needs money and I should very much like some of his pictures . |
| 20 | In 1825 , however , he badly needed money to finance his Italian armies and had few options left but to convene the long-neglected Hungarian parliament . |
| 21 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 22 | Still prefers to work by himself — a trait of which he is aware , but one that could make him retreat into a bubble when he most needs help . |
| 23 | In presidential elections held on Nov. 8 , 1988 [ see pp. 36337-42 ] , the Republican candidate and incumbent Vice-President , George Herbert Walker Bush , defeated his Democratic rival ; he duly took office as President on Jan. 20 , 1989 [ see p. 36391 ] . |
| 24 | In presidential elections held on Nov. 8 , 1988 , the Republican Party candidate and then Vice-President , George Bush , defeated his Democratic Party rival Mike Dukakis ; he duly took office as President on Jan. 20 , 1989 . |
| 25 | I watch the erection sentimentally , lest it fade , as he blatantly tempts fate . |
| 26 | He effectively wrecked Ludo as a game of skill and honour . |
| 27 | as he wearily trudged door to door . |
| 28 | He mostly spoke English to us younger ones anyway . |
| 29 | In conjunction with English printers in Amsterdam , he mostly reprinted anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish books during the 1620s . |
| 30 | He rarely had recourse to it . |