Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 2 | Timex management had told him of substantial losses in recent years and of the possibility of another massive deficit this year . |
| 3 | Nature had endowed him with exceptional vitality and both Cagney himself and Warner Bros quickly appreciated how that vitality positively crackled before the camera . |
| 4 | Nothing else , for the rectory belonged to the church , and she had discovered that her late husband 's public generosity had run him into considerable debt . |
| 5 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 6 | In Vienna , where the Duke had travelled as Britain 's ambassador to the Congress , society had greeted him with outrageous flattery , calling him ‘ le vainqueur du vainqueur du monde ’ , but Lucille guessed that Bonaparte might have other ideas of the Duke 's military stature . |
| 7 | His loyalty had stood him in good stead after the restoration , and he was now a commissioner of police for religious conformity — a post which did not prevent him from working in any other area which Horemheb , through the king , saw fit to appoint him to . |
| 8 | Thus far the internal structure of the pod had protected him from extreme variations in gravitational pull , but now he felt his weight increase as the slim capsule reached terminal velocity for the thin , wind-torn upper atmosphere . |
| 9 | He had to try three of the numbers which the Substitute had given him on identical slips of paper , each of which had ‘ after eight-thirty ’ written in small , neat writing across the bottom . |