Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 2 | He could see Prussian soldiers running away in the undergrowth and he felt the fierce exultation of a cavalryman given a helpless enemy to slaughter , but he did not see the batter of guns concealed in the deep shadows at the edge of the wood , nor the Prussian artillery officer who shouted , ‘ Fire ! ’ |
| 3 | By displaying a map of the area he made it easy to understand his talk and he emphasised the enormous size of Brazil . |
| 4 | Gedge thought Charman was technically the worst of all the contenders but he liked the right bands in The Folk Devils , Josef K and The Three Johns , and more especially , he had an obsessive interest in The Fall . |
| 5 | But the noise put Seve on his guard and he played the 17th conservatively , for him . |
| 6 | I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him . |
| 7 | She yawned like a cat and he saw the red inside of her mouth . |
| 8 | Mr Buxton would not say how many companies were bidding for the work but he hoped the successful tender would be accepted in March , allowing work to start . |
| 9 | Actually we did press him a bit and he gave the usual reasons . |
| 10 | This was the way I always imagined Cedric would get home , if he ever did , but the only person I knew who did manage to negotiate the mysterious overland route was a Lancaster pilot on one of our neighbouring stations and he did the whole thing , from being shot down to arriving back in England , in three weeks . |
| 11 | This one was done for driving without due care and attention and he got the maximum fine . |
| 12 | The Ormeau player , who made his Irish debut last season , was never in trouble against his opponent and he ended the contested after 18 ends . |
| 13 | There was some feeling among his staff that AEAs corporate strategy of ‘ All sticking together ’ had been undermined by the latest announcement but he believed the best way forward was in maintaining standards of service and keeping customers . |
| 14 | He had little skill in forest lore but he knew the principal rides and paths of the forest well . |
| 15 | He followed the lines indicated by the Vice-Chancellor as to the exercise of the discretion and he balanced the various factors involved , reaching the conclusion on that basis that ‘ I would have no doubt that the registrar 's order should stand . ’ |
| 16 | Like his sister he too was dressed all in black and he had the same habit of rubbing his hands together . |
| 17 | His hands were behind his back and he felt the sharp metallic bite of the handcuffs on his wrists . |
| 18 | Lord Reid delivered the leading opinion in the House of Lords and he stated the general principles in fatal accidents claims as follows at p217 : They [ the dependants ] are entitled to such a sum as will make good to them the financial loss which they have suffered and will suffer as a result of the death . |
| 19 | Panic leapt up in his breast and he swallowed the last quarter of an inch of his coffee , muddily tepid . |
| 20 | The outbreak of war saw Bennett still in the navy blue of Imperial Airways and he heard the Prime Minister 's broadcast , declaring war on Germany , with much the same feeling as most of us who remember it . |
| 21 | His skin had a yellowy tinge and he had the same deepset black eyes as his mother and grandmother . |
| 22 | He had drawn up the list of church members and he maintained the other lists too . |
| 23 | He had a good strong voice and he whistled the instrumental parts , shaking his head in time . |
| 24 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 25 | His heart was thudding hard against his ribs and he felt the first droplet of perspiration pop onto his forehead . |
| 26 | And he held on the handle and he pulled the ruddy tooth out . |
| 27 | Anthony , recognizing incompetence , grasped Dalgliesh 's hair firmly with a sticky hand and he felt the momentary touch of a cheek , so soft that it was like the fall of a petal . |
| 28 | I heard Duncan on the 606 show and he made the classic comment about Jimmy Armfield that ‘ the manager 's indecision is final ’ . |
| 29 | But apart from that incident , it was a great show and he did the same kind of thing in Seattle , Kansas City and the sort of cities in the Mid West where they had n't heard of him — it was too early — but Tony DeFries was as good as his word . |
| 30 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |