Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave her his best smile , a greeting he normally reserved for waiters . |
| 2 | It was to be the only home he ever owned in Palestine . |
| 3 | He decided to leave them to it , and as he came out on the landing he almost collided with Beryl who must have been eavesdropping . |
| 4 | In retirement he still worked with horses at his home near Tewkesbury … signed on as Central 's racing tipster … and no national hunt gathering was complete without Terry Biddlecombe … |
| 5 | Well , in theory he was doing what he was supposed to do since this was the time of day he always spent with Katrine and he had been told not to vary the routine . |
| 6 | Wittek suggests that Bayezid I was aware of the criticisms of himself on religious grounds and that he sought investiture as Sultan of Rum , a title he already possessed in fact , from the Abbasid caliph in Cairo because he felt the need for a religious sanction for his regime . |
| 7 | When Dauberval defined what he meant by dances of character he undoubtedly had in mind some easily recognised characters of the commedia dell'arte , whose actors regularly played such roles as the absent-minded doctor or scientist , miser , termagant wife or widow and various clowns such as the sad Pierrot or zany clown . |
| 8 | Finally , Bill could n't stand it any longer and one night he just clung to Marjorie and cried . |
| 9 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
| 10 | This is that there was no insolvency , but the testator had given the object he later left under trust as a pledge to a creditor to secure a loan . |
| 11 | Then from his bike he almost fell with fright , |
| 12 | None more so than the play he virtually wrote for Kenneth Williams — Loot . |
| 13 | He had decided to give up , had , indeed , spent several hours trying to think of one thing he actually liked about Elinor when , two days before the funeral , she looked up from a quiche Lorraine ( 'Billykins says it 's about all she could face ’ ) and barked : ‘ What are we going to drink ? ’ |
| 14 | After the society refused his application he also failed in attempts to have his case taken up by the Building Societies Association and the insurance ombudsman . |
| 15 | Peter seized the black document-wallet he always took to meetings . |
| 16 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 17 | The last one-man show he ever held in London was staged at the Leger Gallery ( 1943 ) , and the only art school to accept him as a teacher was the Borough Polytechnic , where he taught part-time from 1945 to 1953 . |
| 18 | The following summer he again went to Germany , spending some time at the University of Berlin in desultory study . |
| 19 | Before 1234 he had supervised the construction of a model dwelling-place for himself within the cathedral close , the profits from whose sale he later put towards Salisbury 's fabric fund . |
| 20 | Over the years , the solicitor has slowly lost the prestige he formerly held as family counsellor and preserver of the family property . |
| 21 | ‘ Last year he mostly caddied for Lars Persson , who finished around twenty-fifth in the Order of Merit and so he probably made less than five thousand pounds . |
| 22 | On June 5th of that year he suddenly appeared at Racedown — ‘ he did not keep to the high road , but leaped over a gate and bounded down the pathless field ’ . |
| 23 | As a prime minister he probably ranked with Ramsay MacDonald in humble origin and modest wealth . |
| 24 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 25 | During that time he also rode for Ferguson when he rode Lacken Beau for the Ballymena trainer at Downpatrick . |
| 26 | Mr Richter was so smitten by Mr Cliburn 's talent , and so bored by the competition ( 1958 was the last time he ever served as judge for anything ) , that he decided to give the talented American pianist the top score of 25 for everything and all the other contestants a zero for everything . |