Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinochet , who was still C.-in-C. of the army , was told by President Patricio Alywin Azócar on April 15 that in future he had to give prior notice to the government of any trips abroad . |
| 2 | After his ‘ over by Christmas ’ offensive into North Korea had ended in a rout he began to drop dark hints about Red China 's inability to wage ‘ modern war ’ . |
| 3 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 4 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 5 | Reviving a battle he had begun two years ago with military-equipment designers , he insisted that his men needed boots of beige suede with speed laces , ankle-supports , lightweight nylon material , a sand-blocking closure and arch-support . |
| 6 | It was a place he had visited three times — once to be seen ; the second time to appreciate the sermon which he had afterwards discussed outside the small West Door with the vicar who had been impressed by his distinguished visitor 's passionate piety . |
| 7 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 8 | During the ninety day period preceding the accident he had flown 140 hours , of which seventy-five hours were on the accident type . |
| 9 | In response to Frankish currency reform he began to mint new silver pennies in the 760s and 770s , when London emerges as an important royal Mercian minting centre , if not Offa 's principal mint ; it may have been here that his first coins were produced . |
| 10 | After much of the previous evidence had been repeated , Professor Tidy , a police forensic expert , stated that after detailed examination he had found human blood on all three of the Tidburys ' clothing . |
| 11 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 12 | Having doubts about this picture 's authenticity and surmising that it might be the same picture he had seen several years before , he again sought my opinion on the basis of a good photograph . |
| 13 | As a palaeographer he enjoyed reproducing ancient scripts using implements of his own devising , just as an archaeologist he sought a deeper insight into ornaments by drawing them or even carving them with his own hands . |
| 14 | Earlier , Private Lee Clegg ( 22 ) told the court he had fired three times in the vicinity of the car driver 's head . |
| 15 | He was so close that Polly could feel his body warmth and smell the soap he had used that morning . |
| 16 | One day he had noticed chalky bits in a drink she prepared for him , and collapsed soon afterwards . |
| 17 | But Anselm had another reason for action : the procedure he had started eighteen months earlier for excommunicating the king if he did not return the lands and revenues of the archbishopric was drawing to its end . |
| 18 | Freud had always supposed that the various forms of innate behaviour he explored had biological bases to them . |
| 19 | Jeremy Healy 's music was loud and passionate , and designer/stylist Judy Blame agreed that it was the only decent stuff he 'd heard all week , adding that French Djs are the worst on the planet and that there is virtually no point in clubbing in Paris until the situation is remedied . |
| 20 | Last night he had to put new plugs in , they were brand new before he crashed it were n't they ? |
| 21 | And what would Gemma Dallam — Gemma Gage — think to that , she wondered , if she knew the price he had made another woman pay to recover her brown satin ? |
| 22 | By the end of the month he had re-established some contact with the main Front ; however , plans to reinforce the 2nd Shock were abruptly abandoned when Stalin was persuaded to disband the Volkhov Front entirely and place its troops under control of the Leningrad Front . |
| 23 | She was not altogether surprised by her father-in-law 's absence , because right from the start he had taken particular pleasure in taunting her in this way . |
| 24 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 25 | That morning he had visited several estate agents , and his researches indicated that Number 29 might be worth as much as £80,000 . |
| 26 | We argued and discussed — and in the morning he had scrapped that idea and had several others to offer in its place . |
| 27 | Throughout his career he continued to write occasional pieces for friends and patrons , among them Leontius bishop of Bordeaux , the husband of one of Sidonius 's descendants . |
| 28 | Gelding or not , John Henry was quite a horse , and by the end of his first season with Rubin he had won six races , including five on grass ( of which two were Stakes races ) . |
| 29 | The same uneasy feeling he 'd experienced that morning returned , and he realized now why it came : of all the people of Dynmouth this boy in his adolescence was the single exception . |
| 30 | Delaney remembered the feeling he had had that Connors was holding something back . |