Example sentences of "[conj] he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as if satisfied that there was no one about , he hurried across the glade , where he almost trod on Rosalind 's letter , which was lying face-upwards on the grass . |
| 2 | She knew that her father had two sisters , although he never kept in touch with them . |
| 3 | He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work . |
| 4 | He was said , for example , to be so kind to God 's creatures that he even slept with bears . |
| 5 | It should be noted , however , that he also protested against conditions at Newgate , particularly the presence of strangers in the chapel ‘ pointing & whispering , to ye Confusion of ye wretched Men to Dye ’ . |
| 6 | In addition , he acted as a supplier of set-piece marble masonry works such as chimney-pieces and , occasionally , funerary monuments , and there is some evidence that he also dealt in timber . |
| 7 | It was in fact more than a week later that he finally arrived in Switham . |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal concluded that he ordinarily worked outside Great Britain and was therefore unable to pursue an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 9 | He has already allowed friends to put it around that he only stayed as Chancellor after Black Wednesday because Mr Major begged him to . |
| 10 | The Attorney General , Sir Hartley Shawcross , agreed with the Lord Chancellor that the grading of murders would be unworkable , adding that he still remained in favour of providing for the abolition of capital punishment in the Bill . |
| 11 | She said that it was partly because of drink — that all the Stavangers drank , and that her father knew he was drinking too much , but that he never drank at sea . |
| 12 | Davies was sacked for falsely telling editor Richard Stott that he never went to Ohio in 1985 . |
| 13 | Associated with this , I feel , was the fact that he never suffered from jet-lag . |
| 14 | ‘ The English police report that Basil went to Paris on the midnight train on the ninth of November , but the French police say that he never arrived in Paris at all . |
| 15 | MANSON 'S SOLO LP , featuring songs that he originally presented to Byrds producer Terry Melcher in the hope of landing a major record deal . |
| 16 | His style is similar to that of Lancelot Brown [ q.v. ] , although there is no evidence that he ever worked with Brown , and at Eaton Hall in 1763 , the first Earl Grosvenor [ q.v. ] called Emes in to replace Brown . |
| 17 | United manager Jim McLean revealed that he deliberately took off Michael O'Neill six minutes from the end so that the travelling support could give him a personal ovation . |
| 18 | Too shy ( and now , he smiled at the word shy ever applying to him ) to approach her directly in the way that he usually did with women he found attractive . |
| 19 | The INPFL 's withdrawal followed severe criticisms by interim government officials of Johnson 's action in ordering the execution of a senior commander whose offence appeared to be that he unilaterally complied with provisions of the peace agreement , arranging for his men to hand over their arms to troops of the 7,000-strong Ecowas Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) . |
| 20 | He was so drunk that he almost fell on top of her . |
| 21 | Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester . |
| 22 | Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester . |
| 23 | He would listen in , showing more powers of concentration than he ever did at work . |
| 24 | ‘ So he probably came to tea and forgot it , ’ said Camille . |
| 25 | Well my my mother had five children with her previous husband and my father met my mother while this fella was ill and he eventually died with T B and my father married my mother and took on these five children i in , in South Wales . |
| 26 | ‘ Have you ever heard this , Master Clerk ? ’ and he immediately launched into poetry , quoting an old Scottish prophecy about England : |
| 27 | It was at university that he first began to perform , and he later went to New York to study acting with Lee Strasberg . |
| 28 | Dooley 's personal tragedy was so awful — he was so young and talented and he took the blow with such heroic , idiotic stoicism ( ‘ It 's my one regret that the ball did n't finish in the net ’ ) — that a substantial sum was raised for him and he later went to work for the club . |
| 29 | He slept on park benches , in packing boxes , and he even slept in holes in the ground with a strip of linoleum for a blanket . |
| 30 | On the English side Hugh Calveley , having at first sold his services in Spain to du Guesclin , changed sides and served the Black Prince there in 1367 ; later he was to join John of Gaunt , and he even worked for Richard II in France . |