Example sentences of "[that] he [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This incident so affected the policeman that he suffered a nervous breakdown from which , it is said , he never fully recovered .
2 AI has received reports indicating that he suffered a severe eye injury as a result of beatings during interrogation .
3 But if his history did not go down to 63 B.C. we must assume that he wrote a separate monograph on the wars of Pompey ; the difference is not great .
4 From 1906 to 1908 , with his twin brother Kenneth , Sorley attended King 's College Choir School as a day-boy , and it was here , at the age of ten , that he wrote a publishable poem ‘ The Tempest ’ , in form and content a clear portent of his adult work .
5 The few surviving reports of cases heard in King 's Bench during the period he was a justice ( 1295–1316 ) do not suggest that he made a major contribution to the work of the court .
6 Paul writes that he is ‘ in ’ God — and as we look at the way that he wrote other letters , it is clear that he made a great effort to maintain that special relationship .
7 To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense .
8 Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself .
9 Firmly clutching her hand he slowed , and Frere arced around them on still skates so that he made a sweeping circle on the ice before they came , breathless , to a halt .
10 On the night , the young soprano was so nervous that he made a fatal mistake : he forgot to put on any underwear .
11 Rudd admits that he made a big mistake in designing an H16 engine , a layout previously used only in aviation , for the new three-litre formula in 1966 .
12 This certainly did not mean that he had become a tool of Moscow , but that he made a shrewd assessment of which ideology was most likely to speed up progress in Africa .
13 For one who was nervous with aristocrats , it was unusual that he made a special friend in the diocese of the hereditary lay leader of the Anglo-Catholics in England : the Earl of Halifax at Garrowby , whom he would have preferred to Churchill as a war leader .
14 Now , as the proud proprietor of an Athena store , he has every confidence that he made a wise decision .
15 Again there is little evidence to suggest that he made a significant contribution to the work of the court .
16 He nodded agreement , muttered that he thought a grand finale would be her kind of thing , better to wrap it up in style , he said , echoing Ivan .
17 Shandruk later claimed in his memoirs , Arms of Valor ( 1959 ) , that he sent a personal appeal to Gen Anders , the Polish commander in Italy , for permission to march to the rear of British forces .
18 He also said the US administration would seek an additional agreement that would give US airlines new access to British airports and confirmed that he hoped a new aviation agreement could be reached this year between the US and the UK .
19 It suggested that he entertained a wide range of people .
20 Yet underneath it all he suggests there was in Coward a gregarious solitude ( ‘ I am no good at love , ’ he poignantly records ) that slightly undercuts the show 's thesis that he carried a lifelong torch for Ms Lawrence .
21 That 's not to say he aspired to being something of a genius himself , it 's just that he felt a tremendous affinity with those people .
22 There is widespread agreement that Mark was the first Gospel to be completed and that he became a prime source of both Matthew and Luke .
23 It was from that time , his friends judged , that he became a changed man .
24 Alcuin was so far from being certain of this standing with Coenwulf that he asked a Mercian patrician — probably the senior Mercian ealdorman Brorda — to greet the king peaceably ‘ if it is possible to do so ’ .
25 Burton was so elated at his tough bargaining that he took a rare taxi back to Pelham Crescent , where he met his neighbour , Emlyn Williams , who winkled the details out of him and sent him back for £30 .
26 It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress .
27 They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again .
28 He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage .
29 The final activities were another guided tour , back at Wharf Station , where Graham showed us round the museum that he played a central role in setting up .
30 Coleman claimed that his greatest contribution to the young veterinary profession was that he played a major role in securing that from 1796 appointments as veterinary surgeons ( a term used by the Standing Board of General Officers ) in the cavalry , and eventually ( 1805 ) in the artillery , were by commission rather than by warrant .
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