Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her astonishment he placed the stolen letter in her trembling hands . |
| 2 | Before he lost his money he had the good sense to commission John Soane to design the Campden Hill Square house . |
| 3 | Shoving his hands into the pockets of his overcoat he felt the little box that contained the tie pin . |
| 4 | In his room he unpacked the little portable typewriter that had once been Jenny 's and stared at a blank paper until his embarrassment had faded . |
| 5 | Unlike the other Annamese present who wore court robes , he was dressed in the conventional short black gown and white trousers of an ordinary civilian and on his head he wore the traditional black turban of the region . |
| 6 | In his head he saw the hung sheets dotted with coal-smuts torn from their pegs and ripped into bandages as they sailed above the foxgloves . |
| 7 | When the Americans and British refused to grant his request he pulled the French Mediterranean fleet out of NATO . |
| 8 | During his career he became the acknowledged expert on Scottish Carboniferous stratigraphy and his Presidential Address to the Geological Society of Glasgow , published in 1930 , was a milestone in the investigation of the subject . |
| 9 | In his chair he saw the familiar features of the president looking back at him , the face he knew so well from his television set and the newspapers . |
| 10 | During his life he led the deaf congregation of the Bristol Institute of the Deaf in Sunday worship for sixty-seven years and was one of the most popular members of the deaf community . |
| 11 | ‘ Because at one stage of his life he joined the British Army . ’ |
| 12 | Under his hair-net he had the defiant air of a faded beauty . |
| 13 | He was dressed in swimming-shorts and a garish red-and-white water-polo player 's cap , and in his hand he had the blue rubber flippers and a pair of underwater masks and schnorkels . |
| 14 | In the course of his testimony he pleaded the Fifth Amendment , refusing eight times to answer questions in order not to incriminate himself , and became known in the press as " Silent Sam " . |
| 15 | On his way he passed the main drive , and he could see that at the end of it the gates were open . |
| 16 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 17 | To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage . |
| 18 | The Questura was barely fifty metres down the hill , but it was below the surface , and as Zen walked there from his hotel he felt the invisible moisture beading his newly shaved skin . |
| 19 | To his surprise he recognised the battered old van which belonged to Anna 's boyfriend and he wondered what it was doing there . |
| 20 | During his visit he met the Chinese President , Yang Shangkun , Premier Li Peng and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen . |
| 21 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |