Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinochet , who was still C.-in-C. of the army , was told by President Patricio Alywin Azócar on April 15 that in future he had to give prior notice to the government of any trips abroad . |
| 2 | Around the huts he had avoided all contact with her and although they stood side by side listening to her husband , he did nothing to acknowledge her existence . |
| 3 | Who this might be he could not tell , but if it was Balliol he had donned more clothing , which seemed unlikely , in the rush . |
| 4 | So on Friday he tried to pull same stunt again so I says oh no you 're not , I says we 're not playing at that , I says chuff that for a lark , I says what do you think you 're playing at ? |
| 5 | After his ‘ over by Christmas ’ offensive into North Korea had ended in a rout he began to drop dark hints about Red China 's inability to wage ‘ modern war ’ . |
| 6 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 7 | He understood what she meant about Slorne because as the days and weeks had grown into months he had found great comfort in her strange and silent presence . |
| 8 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 9 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 10 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 11 | Reviving a battle he had begun two years ago with military-equipment designers , he insisted that his men needed boots of beige suede with speed laces , ankle-supports , lightweight nylon material , a sand-blocking closure and arch-support . |
| 12 | Music hall had shown Eliot that the chorus of the Greek drama in whose primitive origins he had exhibited such interest , could still work on the modern stage . |
| 13 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 14 | It was a place he had visited three times — once to be seen ; the second time to appreciate the sermon which he had afterwards discussed outside the small West Door with the vicar who had been impressed by his distinguished visitor 's passionate piety . |
| 15 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 16 | During the ninety day period preceding the accident he had flown 140 hours , of which seventy-five hours were on the accident type . |
| 17 | In response to Frankish currency reform he began to mint new silver pennies in the 760s and 770s , when London emerges as an important royal Mercian minting centre , if not Offa 's principal mint ; it may have been here that his first coins were produced . |
| 18 | After much of the previous evidence had been repeated , Professor Tidy , a police forensic expert , stated that after detailed examination he had found human blood on all three of the Tidburys ' clothing . |
| 19 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 20 | His largest fault , perhaps , and one natural to a good hater , was a congenital inability to accept that mortal creatures hold incompatible views and behave in ways incompatible with their views , so that to the end of his days he declined to accept any difference between holding a speculative opinion that is evil and being bad . |
| 21 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 22 | Having doubts about this picture 's authenticity and surmising that it might be the same picture he had seen several years before , he again sought my opinion on the basis of a good photograph . |
| 23 | As a palaeographer he enjoyed reproducing ancient scripts using implements of his own devising , just as an archaeologist he sought a deeper insight into ornaments by drawing them or even carving them with his own hands . |
| 24 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 25 | Over the years he had acquired real skill in his hobby , and had exhibited some of his studies of Scottish scenery and wildlife ; his real passion was bird photography , and through the years he had amassed a remarkable collection of pictures . |
| 26 | For two years he needed massage several times a day and still goes for regular check-ups at hospital . |
| 27 | With the Yeomanry in South Africa he had acquired much experience in horse management . |
| 28 | By all the Gods he had showed those peasant scum . |
| 29 | Earlier , Private Lee Clegg ( 22 ) told the court he had fired three times in the vicinity of the car driver 's head . |
| 30 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |