Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had travelled in Italy and Sicily , where he had studied the Greek temples , he became the surveyor to two city companies , and was a London District Surveyor . |
| 2 | The creator of the evening 's culinary triumphs emerged unshaven from a cavernous kitchen where he had spent the entire day cooking over a wood fire . |
| 3 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 4 | Major General Sir William Dornberg received the pencil-written despatch in the town hall at Mons which he had made into his headquarters , and where he had transformed the ancient council chamber into his map room . |
| 5 | Glover was making his way back from the start , where he had coaxed the temperamental Rambo 's Hall into his stall , and his swelling excitement as he listened to a radio commentary was confined in a swaying Land Rover . |
| 6 | Legality was important to the President because , although he had won the presidential election , he did not have a majority in Congress . |
| 7 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 8 | ‘ And Doyle never referred to the fact that he 'd seen the Asian girl near to Charlie 's ? ’ |
| 9 | Why should she take it out on him that he 'd got the wrong voice ? |
| 10 | He knew at once that he had said the wrong thing . |
| 11 | On April 16 the King announced that he had accepted the Prime Minister 's resignation and was dissolving the Rasthriya Panchayat . |
| 12 | Marcellus ' defence was that he had taught the ignorant to respect and wonder at the beautiful and marvellous works of Greece ( Marc . 21 ) . |
| 13 | Good actor that he was , he somehow managed to convey that he had become the dominant figure , that the contest was as good as won . |
| 14 | She sat down on her suitcases and howled , feeling that he had swept the last traces of her personality out in the dustpan too . |
| 15 | It was while in Japan that he had beaten the Petty Officer half to death in a drunken rage . |
| 16 | Recalling the defeat of the 1991 coup , Yeltsin said that he had outwitted the former KGB chief , Vladimir Kryuchkov , whom he identified as the main organizer of the attempt . |
| 17 | In July the prime minister of Belgium and a committed Europeanist , Paul-Henri Spaak , stated that he supported a European Assembly and announced that he had asked the European Movement to consider plans for such a body . |
| 18 | For the hearing a posse of lawyers appeared for both sides , but Thomas , at the time of his deepest depression over the outcome of the suit , comforted himself that he had secured the best lawyers that money could buy before his opponents had managed to secure them . |
| 19 | A fortnight after being made a minister , this raconteur said that he had joined the Labour Party simply to make sure that ‘ they did nothing too silly ’ . |
| 20 | When I recounted the tale to Steve Richardson , the blockbuster of the European last year and , like Daly , playing his first Masters , he quietly replied that he had played the same hole with a drive and seven-iron . |
| 21 | To add to Mr Rather 's discomfort , the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , told the Post that he had rejected the same piece of film , narrated by Mr Rather , as false when CBS News offered it to the BBC in August 1987 . |
| 22 | When Robert McFarlane was charged with withholding information from Congress about diverting arms sale funds to the Contras , Reagan openly joked that he had done the same and withheld information from Congress . |
| 23 | Would that he had done the same in the biological parts . |
| 24 | That he had seen the two talking ? |
| 25 | But the earl insinuated a restraining hand , though without any indication that he had seen the impending clash . |
| 26 | In the block somebody said that he had seen the whole incident . |
| 27 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 28 | When , later on , his only son died it was taken to be a sign that he had killed the supposed lover unjustly . |
| 29 | He did n't care that he had deprived the poor man of his livelihood . |
| 30 | They warned him with veiled threats against mentioning anything that he had witnessed the previous night . |