Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a few months later he hosted the local natural history club 's wildlife question time . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke revealed the fresh job losses when he addressed the annual conference of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers in Weymouth , where he faced angry questions from delegates who feel badly let down by the corporation . |
| 3 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 4 | 10:5–7 ) He used similar words when he appointed the Seventy . |
| 5 | Kevin 's twin worked in some factory or mill in North Hilderbridge where he did the maximum overtime . |
| 6 | He showed that when winning the prestigious Stuttgart tournament in February when he beat the top two players in the world within seven days . |
| 7 | Andy has also been successful with other players : he was with the American Tom Purtzer when he won the 1984 Phoenix Open , with Craig Stadler from the US when the ‘ Walrus ’ won the 1985 Swiss Open , and there were two World Cup triumphs for Andy and his man — an individual title with Englishman Howard Clark in the 1985 Cup , and a team title with David Llewellyn of Wales in 1987 . |
| 8 | Paul Weir won the title in May when he stopped the Mexican Hernando Martinez at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in only his sixth professional fight . |
| 9 | STEVE DAVIS , the defending champion , lost his quarter-final clash with Ken Doherty in the most humiliating circumstances when he forfeited the deciding frame and the match on the ‘ miss ’ rule at the Benson and Hedges Irish Masters at Goff 's , County Kildare . |
| 10 | He described his performance at Muirfield last July when he missed the halfway cut as ‘ the most disappointing point of my year . ’ |
| 11 | A moment later he saw the second of the men go down with a sharp groan , clutching his balls . |
| 12 | Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office . |
| 13 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 14 | An outstanding sportsman , in 1936 he became Irish universities ' heavyweight boxing champion and two years later he received the first of six rugby international caps for Ireland , touring South Africa in 1938 with the British Lions . |
| 15 | Four years later he directed the Italian première of Eugene Onegin , and was an early champion of the Pathétique Symphony in 1933 , and Romeo and Juliet was another item that was to enter his repertoire . |
| 16 | He beat Martin Molony 's record of 92 wins in 1950 , that red letter day arriving on a Sunday in November when he rode the Ulster-owned Atone to a victory at Fairyhouse . |
| 17 | He travelled as a seaman to Sydney where he won the Australian heavyweight title before transferring to San Francisco where he was persuaded by the Earl of Lonsdale to operate in England , a move which enhanced his status greatly , as a contemporary noted : ‘ I knew him in the days of his greatness when sitting on top of the pugilistic world , fêted and lionized , he might well have been excused some slight vanity ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 18 | I 'd love to see a match where he sent the whole fucking lot off . |
| 19 | I 'd love to watch a match where he sent the whole lot off . |
| 20 | It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own . |
| 21 | He followed his father 's profession as a whitesmith , locksmith , bell hanger and general ironmonger and lived in a house in Broad Street where he fiddled the local gas company by bypassing the meter using a section of old piping . |
| 22 | Once in New York he was invited to Wall Street where he addressed the assembled and hushed stockbrokers who had suspended business with the understanding that the talk would not exceed three minutes . |
| 23 | Half an hour later he reached the rutted track and began to struggle up on his bike . |
| 24 | A minute later he heard the rhythmic thump of the starboard bilge pump uniting with his own pumping . |
| 25 | It is argued that the Lamont onslaught had all the hallmarks of an embittered man seeking revenge , particularly as he chose the day when he knew the Prime Minister would be on the defensive , and needing all the support he could summon . |
| 26 | He did not touch her until the end of the day when he stroked the frizzled hair briefly and said " Thank you " , meaning it . |
| 27 | In the Herdman case the taxpayer argued that s739 could not apply if the taxpayer was not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom when he made the relevant transfer . |
| 28 | By January 1930 he had arrived in Hong Kong where he established the Vietnamese Communist Party which soon merged into the Indo-China Communist party or Dong Duong Cong-San Dang . |
| 29 | Running for Darlington , he became the first man to run 100 yards in even time ( 10 seconds dead ) under championship conditions when he took the Amateur Athletics Association ( AAA ) title in 1886 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 30 | Coun Jones had been visiting his mother-in-law at the hospital in October when he saw the Labour candidate among the crowd of protestors . |