Example sentences of "[conj] he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that her father had two sisters , although he never kept in touch with them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He has already allowed friends to put it around that he only stayed as Chancellor after Black Wednesday because Mr Major begged him to . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Associated with this , I feel , was the fact that he never suffered from jet-lag . |
| 7 | He was so drunk that he almost fell on top of her . |
| 8 | He would listen in , showing more powers of concentration than he ever did at work . |
| 9 | ‘ So he probably came to tea and forgot it , ’ said Camille . |
| 10 | ‘ Have you ever heard this , Master Clerk ? ’ and he immediately launched into poetry , quoting an old Scottish prophecy about England : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Normally Peter played at outside-right , but a combination of events led him to have several useful and productive spells at centre-forward , and he also played at inside-right and at outside-left for us . |
| 13 | Alan 's by-line was to be seen as a foreign correspondent for a number of national papers including the Daily Express , Daily Sketch , Sunday Times and he also wrote for Mail on Sunday . |
| 14 | He bought a country estate at Knowle , Warwickshire , for £10,000 and he twice served as mayor of Warwick , in 1713–14 and 1728–9 . |
| 15 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 16 | His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital . |
| 17 | Papa said that it was a good servant , but a bad master , and he never joined in temperance rant . |
| 18 | But he later acted as agent for the chief minister , Robert Cecil , first Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , over private bills , and supported the great contract to put government finances on a sounder footing . |
| 19 | Pressing for the abolition of the pernicious fee system had been an obvious target but he also pressed for liquor taps to be banned and the sale of drink to inmates to be closely regulated ; for the gaolers to be resident at the gaol instead of offering only minimal supervision if they lived away from it ; for the provision of chaplains and doctors and the detailing and publishing of prison rules and regulations . |
| 20 | As soon as I was strong enough , and could walk again , I fetched my baby from the nursing home , but he then died of shock from an operation necessitated by stomach trouble . |
| 21 | Not only did Mr Solarz support a war that most liberal Democrats regarded as an invitation to disaster , but he actively pushed for confrontation with Iraq — linking arms in the process with such unlikely conservative allies as Richard Perle and Jeane Kirkpatrick . |
| 22 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 23 | He had things to learn before he finally pushed for home . |
| 24 | When he finally returned to power , he was careful not to preside over the new Gaullist party , the UNR , in the same direct way that he had led the RPF . |
| 25 | When he finally died of alcoholism , she returned to the only job she knew , dancing . |
| 26 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 27 | Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence . |
| 28 | Then , when he simply smiled in response , she added , ‘ It would serve you right if Jeff walked out on you . |
| 29 | What is tolerably certain is that he was still alive when he either entered into confraternity with Christ Church or Cnut gave them his name , and that when Cnut himself sailed for Denmark in 1019 it was to suppress trouble . |
| 30 | The Leeds boss pointed the midfielder back on and had to be restrained by reserve official Brian Hill as he furiously remonstrated with referee Joe Worrall . |