Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |
| 2 | While the Scot won the opening frame he lost the next three , but his highest break of the match , 74 , suggested Hallett had a problem on his hands . |
| 3 | With the help of a night nurse he found the right room and tiptoed in . |
| 4 | Cutting across country in the morning light he saw the Japanese transports moored peacefully in Dili harbour . |
| 5 | During the Boer War he joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper , but was soon commissioned and later promoted to captain . |
| 6 | In his rear view mirror he saw the solid yellow wall blocking the whole road . |
| 7 | Looking like a scholarly Foreign Office man he took the hard-selling American advertising world of those days aback by the very stealth of his approach . |
| 8 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |