Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessamy stood in the doorway and watched him in angry astonishment . |
| 2 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 3 | The King of England in ancient times , he figures in fairy legends as follows : a mysterious creature covered in hair and cloven-hoofed , paid a visit to King Herla on the occasion of his marriage and showered him with many marvellous gifts . |
| 4 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 5 | I put down my lunch and followed him in frantic pursuit . |
| 6 | His parents were keen on the work ethic and equipped him with impeccable manners . |
| 7 | It denied Mr Yeltsin the right to hold a referendum and accused him of stirring confrontation . |
| 8 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 9 | McCann 's perseverance saw him move 5-4 ahead after seven ends , but a double on the next restored Robertson 's advantage and pushed him within one of the winning line . |
| 10 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 11 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |
| 12 | I played one lad and beat him in three successive frames . |
| 13 | Well Sir Marquess across the road it was his first wife who died of a brain tumour and left him with three daughters , as we know . |
| 14 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 15 | Experts say the house windows ‘ cushioned ’ the impact and saved him from instant death . |
| 16 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 17 | A Basel court on March 17 , 1989 , found a computer specialist guilty of passing economic information to the Soviet Union and sentenced him to 45 days in prison . |
| 18 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 19 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 20 | Mr Harty said Benson had a substantial sum of money in his possession and sentenced him to six months imprisonment on each of two charges to run consecutively and consecutive to a sentence he was presently serving . |
| 21 | But they accepted he was seeking help with his drinking problem and sentenced him to 18 months probation with a 3-year driving ban . |
| 22 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 23 | Crouching down in order to finish dressing his back afresh , she was surprised to feel a lump come into her throat and saw him through sudden tears , making her confused and uneasy . |
| 24 | Judge Geoffrey Kilfoil ordered his arrest and jailed him for 14 days for contempt of court . |
| 25 | They tracked down Doisneau and met him in 1990 . |