Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 9 years in which he applied microbial biochemistry to industrial manufacturing problems , he returned , in 1929 , to academic work as professor of biochemistry at the London School of Hygiene , where he continued to identify the chemical constituents of fungi and discover their functions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He found a place for a year in the household of a wealthy London merchant where he started to translate the New Testament ; it became clear , however , that there was no possibility of printing it in England , so in 1524 he left for Germany , never to return . |
| 8 | From there he went to Sion House , Middlesex , where he helped to plant the new conservatory . |
| 9 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 10 | When Khrushchev visited President Eisenhower in the United States of America , the Chinese authorities became furious , and denounced Khrushchev , so he cut off all military and economic aid to China , although he continued to support the Communist leader of Cuba , Fidel Castro . |
| 11 | Legality was important to the President because , although he had won the presidential election , he did not have a majority in Congress . |
| 12 | Although he helped to form the National Deaf and Dumb Society , he was also to be the main reason for its demise . |
| 13 | James Paul was terribly hurt by the collapse of the N.D.D.S. and although he helped to establish the British Deaf and Dumb Association in 1890 , accepting the position of Treasurer in the first year , he preferred to devote himself to developing the social status and services for the deaf people of Ayrshire . |
| 14 | Morse thought it must be the splendid grandfather clock he 'd seen somewhere that he heard chiming the three-quarters ( 10.45 a.m. ) as he and Lewis sat beside each other in a deep settee in the Lancaster Room . |
| 15 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 16 | He was so large that he seemed to fill the tiny area with his presence , and as he sat down his knees brushed hers beneath the table . |
| 17 | Indeed , it is an oddity that he seemed to see the criminal justice system as being the only aspect of the environment that influences individual decisions about whether it is worthwhile to commit crime or not . |
| 18 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ And Doyle never referred to the fact that he 'd seen the Asian girl near to Charlie 's ? ’ |
| 21 | Why should she take it out on him that he 'd got the wrong voice ? |
| 22 | James Tomlinson could not and still does not believe that he imagined seeing the mysterious passenger . |
| 23 | He knew at once that he had said the wrong thing . |
| 24 | On April 16 the King announced that he had accepted the Prime Minister 's resignation and was dissolving the Rasthriya Panchayat . |
| 25 | Marcellus ' defence was that he had taught the ignorant to respect and wonder at the beautiful and marvellous works of Greece ( Marc . 21 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She sat down on her suitcases and howled , feeling that he had swept the last traces of her personality out in the dustpan too . |
| 28 | It was while in Japan that he had beaten the Petty Officer half to death in a drunken rage . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |