Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to aid this he began numbering the main verbs . |
| 2 | By 1881 he had built the first fully automatic milling plant at Chester and from that time , mechanically powered roller-milling rapidly supplanted stone-milling in the mass production of flour . |
| 3 | Perhaps when she made it clear he 'd got the wrong woman he 'd be sorry … |
| 4 | In 1338 he had issued the so-called ‘ Walton Ordinances ’ to help make the raising of supplies more efficient . |
| 5 | As he pushed his way through the swing doors he thought again how much he had preferred the Gothic splendour of the old building in Whitehall . |
| 6 | At Bayeux in 1946 he had quoted the ancient Greek lawmaker Solon , who was asked to name the best constitution and replied : " Tell me first for which people and in which era . " |
| 7 | There was a doom-laden pause , and Desmond became conscious he had said the wrong thing again . |
| 8 | In a well received speech on June 21 he had accused the current CPSU leadership of " ideological confusion " and of allowing radicals to wage " an organized campaign to destroy the party from within " . |
| 9 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 10 | Salisbury did not share half the views held by those who accepted his lead , but he was a focus for the increasing Unionist discontent , a respectable public figure acting from the highest motives ; by 1921 he had made the diehard opposition a formidable force . |
| 11 | Knowing Louis 's concern for the Holy Land in 1147 he had led the French army on the Second Crusade — he put it about that all he really wanted to do was put his own house in order , make proper provision for his children , and then he would be off on crusade in his lord 's company . |
| 12 | King George V had been very grieved at the outbreak of the Great War , which he would have liked to avoid , but Britain 's commitment to Belgium made that impossible , and in 1917 he decided to change the royal ‘ House ’ name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor . |
| 13 | Instinctively she clenched her fingers , but not before she was sure he had seen the white mark etched against her tan . |
| 14 | It was a fine bright day and he felt sure he had made the right decision . |
| 15 | Above all he sought to dismantle the traditional peasant commune . |
| 16 | Corbett , remembering all he had seen the previous night , was more wary of Thomas : the evil he had experienced in that hut was nothing to take lightly . |
| 17 | Maggie clipped his ear , making him yell , but undeterred he began to torment the two younger boys who had crouched quietly in a corner , watching . |
| 18 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 19 | And he started to cry , there , alone with her in the cemetery , next to those he had loved the most and missed the most . |
| 20 | On Sept. 16 he had signed the 1975 Helsinki Final Act [ see pp. 27301-09 ] in Helsinki . |
| 21 | In 1970 he helped to found the British wing of Friends of the Earth ; with them he was instrumental in giving a hefty nudge to the rickety barrow of the British nuclear establishment . |
| 22 | In 1970 he refused to broadcast the proposed South African tour . |
| 23 | At a dinner to celebrate his 25 years , said of that he was an example to everybody in terms of hard work and leadership and recalled how in the snow of 1982 he had walked the five miles from his home and Playford to be at his desk at the normal time . |
| 24 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 25 | In 1947 he had formed the English Opera Group , which performed his works . |
| 26 | Although Duke had dismissed his past association with the racist Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups as a " youthful indiscretion " , as recently as 1988 he had contested the presidential elections as the nominee of the Populist Party — a known repository of neo-Nazis and former Klansmen — on an openly racist and anti-Semitic platform . |
| 27 | In July 1944 he had told the American government and in December 1944 the Soviet government that the left bank of the Rhine ought to be detached from the rest of Germany and placed under French authority , while the Ruhr 's industrial resources should be controlled by an international authority . |