Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David showed prudence in doing the things committed to him by Saul ; Job exemplified simplicity ( in the good sense ) for it was said of him that he was a simple man ; Solomon , in Proverbs , highlighted patience , where he said that a prince is made mellow by patience . |
| 2 | 1–4 Malcolm MacKinnon , an old man , was lost in a storm between Bridgend and Mulindry where he lived and a week later had not been found . |
| 3 | Martin Lee , leader of the United Democrats of Hong Kong , said that he hoped that a politician would be more receptive to the will of the people than a diplomat . |
| 4 | In the same interview with the two journalists , Wilson made the further point that he believed that a faction in DI5 had pursued a vendetta against himself and his close colleagues . |
| 5 | I told him about my Knights — without revealing their identities — and he agreed that a lot can be achieved with the mind , that attitude is everything , and that life 's ‘ hard knocks ’ shape your character . |
| 6 | Alexei glanced idly down , and he saw that a company of troopers of the guard — C'zaki by their dress , under the command of a Yek officer — were marching up from the direction of the gate , picking up the sentries who had completed their tour of duty , dropping off the night watch . |
| 7 | They appointed Cromwell their advocate at the commission of sewers in Huntingdon , and he ensured that a clause concerning the commandeering of common land was included in the catalogue of complaints known as the Grand Remonstrance presented to the king in 1641 . |
| 8 | He was probably wrong , he acknowledged , but he felt like a woman must feel , when an attentive man undressed her . |
| 9 | But he added that a system which simply gave complainants a chance to investigate the defence case before going to court ‘ would not be satisfactory or acceptable ’ . |
| 10 | But he went after a friend persuaded him and was glad that he did . |
| 11 | He accepted that his submissions on duress were substantially subsumed in his primary argument but he maintained that a threat by the Crown to sue put Woolwich on unequal terms and that this was sufficient to constitute duress . |
| 12 | THE LATE Jock Stein laid down a strategy for the World Cup when he said that a team could wear working clothes to qualify , but needed to find evening dress for the event itself . |
| 13 | King Alfred had expressed a traditional division in society when he said that a kingdom must have those who pray , those who fight and those who work . |
| 14 | When he heard that a role in Papillon would be especially created for him , he was not only flattered but asked for ( and got ) a salary of $1.25 million . |
| 15 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 16 | The interpretation put forward here is not fundamentally different from that offered by Jaynes when he suggested that a tendency to emit ( a fractional version of ) the response acquired in the first stage would serve as a mediating process in the second , and that the salience of the mediator would depend on the magnitude of the initial response of which it was a fraction . |
| 17 | I I find issue with one point in the Good Report , when he mentioned that a surplus is a notional surplus , it can not crystallize until the fund actual close down . |
| 18 | His earlier complete reversal of his position had done little for his credibility and now as he went after a tax cut his touch was decidedly uncertain . |
| 19 | Wulfstan was not interested in recording this , presumably because as he thought that a king should levy only light taxes he disapproved of the procedure . |