Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 2 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 3 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 4 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 5 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 6 | After a few moments ' deciphering he rang Gerald Venables ' number . |
| 7 | Webb , a Bristol surgeon , has secured the orthopaedic registrar 's position he sought but it will not , as initially feared , end his rugby career . |
| 8 | About three weeks ' pay he had taken from Rab . |
| 9 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 10 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 11 | After a good day 's fishing he persuaded me to spend the night at Fullcircle . |
| 12 | All Marion 's life he had grumbled about being both a father and a mother to her and when she was small she had felt that he was cross with her . |
| 13 | All Joe 's life he 'd been asked what it was like being Jerry Lewis 's kid and his answer was always : ‘ It 's great , he 's great ’ . |
| 14 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 15 | Speaking on the anniversary of the outrageous star 's death he said : ‘ My personal feeling is that we should never go out and try and be Queen again . ’ |
| 16 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 17 | After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government . |
| 18 | The Sergeant was a meaty slab of a man , of fifty years ' service , ruddy-faced as though surfeited with a Marine 's haemoglobin-plus blood ; and through one Lyman 's earlobe he wore an alien foetus pendant . |
| 19 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 20 | D. A. A friend of mine was posted to a beat in Allerton and one summer 's afternoon he saw a young lad — about fifteen years of age — getting into a car . |
| 21 | In his new year 's message he urged the government to mitigate its harshest effects . |
| 22 | On New Year 's Eve he had been ill . |
| 23 | He said Mr Lamont declared in last year 's Budget he had ‘ no need , no proposals and no plans either to raise or to extend the scope of VAT ’ . |