Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this firm closed down in 1843 he transferred to the locomotive drawing office of the Railway Foundry works , Leeds , of Messrs Shepherd & Todd , where he became acting chief draughtsman . |
| 2 | In 1918 he became professor of ecclesiastical history at King 's , where he wished to integrate historical studies with the collections at Lambeth , and in 1931 professor of ecclesiastical history in London University . |
| 3 | Not quite so confidently as in Stratford ; or in Oxford , of course , where he had memorised whole sentences from the Jan Morris guide . |
| 4 | Murray , he alleged , then had gone to the bothy next door where he had injected three men with heroin . |
| 5 | The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation . |
| 6 | Some , like Bina Gardens , where he had spent pleasant evenings with Frank Morley and Geoffrey Faber in the 1930s at John Hayward 's flat , resulted in the Noctes Binanianae , a little private anthology which I came upon later in the Houghton Library at Harvard . |
| 7 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |
| 8 | The secret policeman was back in uniform , a plain copper on the beat , back where he had started fifteen years before . |
| 9 | He had had a successful academic career at Cambridge University , where he had taken successive degrees leading up to his PhD . |
| 10 | In April 1965 Crawford opened with Harry H. Corbett in a new comedy , Travelling Light , at the Prince of Wales Theatre , where he had enjoyed such success in Come Blow Your Horn . |
| 11 | In Berchtesgaden , where Hitler had his home on the Obersalzberg , and where he had enjoyed special veneration in former days , the SD reported that his speech on New Year 's Eve merely elicited the response that it ‘ brought nothing new ’ , and there was ‘ hardly any credibility worth mentioning ’ left for his last broadcast speech on 30 January 1945 . |
| 12 | I had watched Quintin under pressure during the Suez crisis where he had shown admirable calm at the Admiralty in testing circumstances ; and while I had some misgivings about his famous ‘ judgement ’ I felt that he could take on the leadership and the job of Prime Minister , and make a success of it . |
| 13 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |
| 14 | He then told Raine , 37 , where he intended to stick various parts of his anatomy . |
| 15 | He could handle the fast rise now , although he 'd had some trouble along the way . |
| 16 | But Biggs also ran out of steam as the contest progressed towards the later rounds although he managed to conceal this inadequacy from the British champion . |
| 17 | Although he had suffered severe head injuries and eight broken ribs , he was found to have died from drowning . |
| 18 | Later , he made some corrective statements pointing out that although he had made these observations , he was certainly not advocating the use of any drugs , although he continued to ridicule some of the US government 's attempts to stem the tide as being the wrong way to deal with the problem . |
| 19 | He also wanted to publish the next volume of the Cantos as soon as possible , in order to bolster Pound 's reputation , although he had expressed private reservations that the most recent work was not of so high a standard as the rest . |
| 20 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |
| 21 | Although he had removed all trace of labelling from the cassette the Duty Men were not fooled . |
| 22 | John 's father left the family when John was seven , although he had spent long periods away when John was younger . |
| 23 | Although he had anticipated all sorts of difficulties , he found a flat to rent . |
| 24 | The appellant , in evidence during the trial , had insisted that he had made it clear to Mr. Burt that he was not a fully qualified accountant , although he had passed some examinations . |
| 25 | Although he had to make some concessions , he has declared himself by and large satisfied . |
| 26 | Although he seemed to avoid personal conversation with her now , one thing he always wanted to discuss with her was Faye 's day , with a rundown on his sister 's mood and any abnormality at all in her blood sugar , blood-pressure or anything else . |
| 27 | The methods that he chose to investigate this phenomenon were mainly social-psychological , enquiring into the motivations and psychological reactions of individual peasants rather than into the concrete structures and conditions of their lives . |
| 28 | Was it sheer bravado on Obispal 's part that he disdained to fire explosive bolts at that creature which itself could not manipulate a gun ? |
| 29 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 30 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |