Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Li Yuan 's horse ; the horse he had ridden the last time he had come . |
| 2 | Being adept at the set conversation piece he managed to extract the relevant data without ever putting his knife in it . |
| 3 | If he ran into Eleanor he planned to blame the general editor and make soothing noises . |
| 4 | The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso 's uneasiness about his Cadaquès paintings : clearly he could not go back to his earlier , more laborious methods of dealing with form , and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction . |
| 5 | He felt sure he could sweet-talk Antonio and get the 25 per cent equity he needed to put the new deal to bed . |
| 6 | He had , of course , given up cigarettes by the time he had gone into the clinic , but as a result he had abandoned the puritanical principles inculcated into him in youth and had started eating sweets instead ; and this meant that he was putting on weight . |
| 7 | Scowling with concentration he began to load the six chambers of his Colt Patent Repeating Pistol with the lead which dragged down one pocket of his scarecrow 's morning coat . |
| 8 | And also like Braid he had won the Open Championship four times by 1908 but he was to win twice more in 1911 and 1914 . |
| 9 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 10 | He glanced to his right and saw the handsome , leonine profile of the silver haired killer he had spent the past five years hunting down . |
| 11 | He had hit the right note of playful yet dignified affection with the children — mischievous Sam Yaxley had proved an ally there ; and even throughout the days of his own distress he had comforted the sick and sorrowful , acting in the simple trust that , however removed chose impoverished lives might seem from his own , they were members of one another . |
| 12 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 13 | Alan thought of the little scene he had witnessed the previous night . |
| 14 | Despite his human limitations he managed to retrieve the underwater thorn which would give immortality , although it was stolen from him on his journey back to Uruk by a serpent . |
| 15 | The victim was then hypnotised twice and during the second session he claimed to recognise the accused as the attacker . |
| 16 | In February he had told the Austrian Ambassador in St Petersburg , " I lack the power to give life to a corpse , and the Turkish empire is dead " . |
| 17 | On reflection he advised consulting the foreign ministry . |
| 18 | On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal . |
| 19 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 20 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 21 | While still at Lincoln 's Inn he had joined the British India Society and the Anti-Corn Law League , both of which confirmed his radical political leanings . |
| 22 | But Morocco 's opposition parties want King Hassan to bring home the 1,500 troops he sent to join the multinational force . |
| 23 | They sure looked smart , he thought , and from that moment he began to cultivate the straight , dignified bearing which was to be his hallmark in later life ; only occasionally did he forget and relapse into his old North American droop . |
| 24 | Then at the last moment he 'd pressed the small jeweller 's box into her hand . |
| 25 | As we rode towards London , one of Mandeville 's secretaries unfurled the pennant on a pole he carried bearing the royal arms of England , showing all and sundry that we carried the King 's own warrant . |
| 26 | Concerned with Soviet security he wished to retain the territorial gains made under his pact with Hitler . |
| 27 | We know from an article he wrote entitled The New Course of Our Economic Policy' that he enthusiastically endorsed NEP as early as August 1921 . |
| 28 | Within ten years he had conquered the other tribes along the Mad Dog Pass and subjugated the Night Goblin tribes that lived around and under Thunder Mountain . |
| 29 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 30 | But on the following day he had shaved the red stubble from his chin , was wearing a cleaner shirt , and was once more beginning to adopt a stern and over-bearing expression The Magistrate continued to give the orders which regulated the defence of the enclave , but in a subdued tone , as if referring them to the final authority of the Collector , should he wish to exercise it . |