Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
| 2 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
| 3 | Only after this prompt action did he secure Congressional support , and , close on this , the support of the UN Security Council . |
| 4 | Harbury 's loose talk suggested he had few facts . |
| 5 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 6 | The soft little click the door made when she closed it caused him to turn his head , and not by one flicker of an eyelash did he betray any emotion of her entrance . |
| 7 | The loser then was Ray Laccohee who might well have been more than a match for Dale overall had he played more competition golf . |
| 8 | The Labour leader said he felt certain Cabinet ministers should consider their positions too . |
| 9 | The court heard he ignored professional advice that the animal should have an operation , leaving it to suffer chronic and constant pain . |
| 10 | But the court heard he passed SIX slip roads where he could have turned off . |
| 11 | An inspector said he believed 150 tubs of the cream were sold in Fermanagh and Tyrone without prescription over a five-month period ending April 1992 . |
| 12 | Officially he had recovered nicely from the shock of his experience , but his sister thought he needed more time : she was mothering him . |
| 13 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 14 | A home Office pathologist said he noted seventeen injuries to Hannah ; s head . |
| 15 | A Ford spokesman said he believed industrial action was a long way off . |
| 16 | Deacon had taken over the head of the formation as the leader 's R/T was not working , and calling a warning to the other pilots , he swung into the attack on one Messerschmitt from the quarter position , breaking away to attack a second similarly , though in neither case did he observe any results . |
| 17 | The hospital confirmed he spent 40 minutes having his injuries examined . |
| 18 | ROCK drummer Mitch Mitchell won substantial libel damages in the High Court yesterday after a book claimed he made racist comments to Jimi Hendrix when he played in his band , the Experience . |
| 19 | Fortunately he had been taken in by his mother 's father up to the age of six , living in a cottage by Denbigh castle ; but after this grandfather died he spent nine years as a child in St Asaph workhouse . |
| 20 | MEGIDDO , Israel ( Reuter ) — A Syrian air force major yesterday landed a Soviet-made MiG-23 fighter in Israel and an army statement said he requested political asylum , becoming the first Arab airman to do so in more than 20 years . |
| 21 | " But where on earth did he get that idea ? " |
| 22 | One Windscale worker who lived in Seascale at the time said he recorded radioactive contamination on his son 's shoes which was almost six times the level used to signify a hazard inside his laboratory . |