Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son .
2 Then without a backward glance he fled towards the French windows , clutching the offending animal under his arm .
3 For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion .
4 He thought always much too easily , in highly unrealistic terms , of the peoples he ruled as a mere aggregate of individuals face to face with an absolute State .
5 Racing is often cruelly unfair , however , and while Top Class looks marvellous each-way value , Brittain 's dreams of victory could be wrecked by Golden Pheasant , a horse he trained in the early part of the season .
6 With swift steps he crossed to the glazed door and saw her crouched before a flowerbed , apparently engrossed in the task of tugging weeds from between the flowering rose bushes .
7 As he reached the parked sports car he went into a rolling dive , still clutching his leg , and bounced himself off the bonnet and over the other side .
8 In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised .
9 To his right wing the Zoo stretched away in the distance ; Three Island Pond he recognized as a paler shape than the rest with lights on the paths around to mark it out ; the Cages were in front of it with several Men around them .
10 In 1979 , he was elected MP for Putney , south-west London , the seat he held with an increased majority last Thursday despite predictions that he faced defeat .
11 Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons .
12 After tea he dozed through an old Peter Sellers film at the King 's Road Classic , dined off a biriani , dozed through an old Tati film at the Baker Street Classic , and crept upstairs to his flat just in time to meet Mounce coming downstairs from his den .
13 It should not be despised , Bombay talkies , any more than Mizoguchi despised the melodrama he took from the Kabuki theatre .
14 After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 .
15 He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post .
16 With full and proper ceremony he walked through the sacred fire and was accepted as pure by the god Asuryan .
17 With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home .
18 In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal .
19 He thought his best period was the pictures he did in the Thirties , when he worked in France ’ .
20 Landing over the first fence he crashed into the prostrate form of the faller Meon Valley and was brought down .
21 Clinton needed five stitches in an eye cut he suffered in the first round , when he also badly displaced the knuckles on his left hand .
22 Speeding home to Maidenhead on his Lambretta he brooded on the exciting and slightly scary world of West Coast direct action , radicalism , Beat and homosexuality .
23 In support of this submission he relied on the recent decision of the House of Lords in Reg. v. Inland Revenue Commissioners , Ex parte T. C. Coombs & Co. [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 283 , 302F where the House of Lords held , in the words of Lord Lowry who gave the leading judgment in which the other Lords of Appeal concurred , that
24 After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey .
25 Walter climbed in beside him , trying hard not to show the fear he felt for the mechanical monster .
26 But one also sees in the adoption of Havard the vivid contrast which existed between the clubbable Lewis liked by his friends and the figure he presented on the domestic scene .
27 Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match .
28 The roles he played in the glossy pages of The New Yorker , for instance , were almost parodies of gracious living and social superiority .
29 John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled .
30 According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions .
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