Example sentences of "[noun sg] that he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 2 | Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles . |
| 3 | It was when he finally reached the end of the turning by the Rotherhithe.Tunnel entrance that he saw the three standing together across the street . |
| 4 | It was only when he moved round to the side that he saw the blue , chapped ears and the hair , frozen and brittle , as if you could snap it off . |
| 5 | In Manders v. Williams , brewers supplied porter in casks to a publican on condition that he returned the empty casks ; held , they could maintain trover against a sheriff who took the casks in execution for the publican 's debts , for directly they were emptied the right to immediate possession was in the brewers , the publican becoming a mere bailee at will . |
| 6 | It took hours and it was not until the late afternoon that he began the final copy . |
| 7 | I welcome the money that he announced the other day . |
| 8 | Paris says that he conducted himself here in a typically high-handed manner , whilst the Dunstable annalist writes of his boasting before the king and queen that he had the Welsh in the palm of his hand . |
| 9 | It was only when negotiations with Parnell failed to produce a compromise that he led the clerical attack on Parnell 's leadership . |
| 10 | A taxi driver , who was with his parked vehicle at the bus turnabout , told the court that he saw the three other taxi men talking together . |
| 11 | Isaac Ojok , a Minister of Education under the Obote regime , was sentenced to death on Dec. 18 , having been found guilty of plotting the downfall of the government of President Yoweri Museveni ; Ojok , who was arrested in 1987 , told the High Court that he joined the Holy Spirit guerrillas after being " stupefied by herbs " given to him by their leader Alice Lakwena [ for whom see p. 35493 ] . |
| 12 | Although he performed valiantly as a navigator in that most dangerous of all the branches of the armed forces , the Royal Flying Corps , in 1915 , and during his service sustained a serious leg injury , there is little evidence that he experienced the full horrors of trench warfare . |
| 13 | Cruz admitted unfreezing the bank accounts ; his claim that he had the legal authority to do so was rejected by the courts on Nov. 17 . |
| 14 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 15 | France 's Algerian policy was his policy , not only in the sense that he made the critical decisions about when and how to launch an initiative or offer a concession , but because he personified the policy . |
| 16 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 17 | Coleridge 's improbably romantic explanation and evident intelligence so impressed the man that he gave the remarkable child a subscription to the circulating library in Cheapside , where he began , according to his own not unlikely account , to read every book it contained . |
| 18 | The rules of the Gold Dragon Triad being that he had the unquestionable right , as Controller of the New York area of operations , to sentence any of his subordinates to be executed for a serious failure or breach of discipline . |
| 19 | By a curious twist of fate Kuzmitch later defected to the CIA by which time Blake had been convicted of spying , one of the charges being that he contravened the Official Secrets Act in November 1951 while still in captivity . |
| 20 | Whatever the truth behind that story , in July 1990 Rob Lowe showed the world that he had the same kind of concerns and cares as everyone else when he made a surprise and last-minute appearance at the Knebworth Charity Festival where Elton John and Phil Collins were among the artists performing . |
| 21 | He had been elected an Honorary Fellow in 1850 , and it is clear that Hope 's wealth and position were still of sufficient value to the profession that he became the only amateur , apart from Grey , to be the Institute 's President . |
| 22 | Anfield 's record-breaking striker is certain that neither Blackburn Rovers ' financial clout nor their present League position can ever console the Scot that he made the right decision on that dramatic day in February 1991 . |
| 23 | He also praised him for ‘ the way that he ended the Cold War . |
| 24 | Lieutenant Colonel Bob Stewart , Cheshires ' Commanding Officer , said in a statement read at the inquest that he believed the fatal shot may have been fired by either a Moslem or Croat gunman acting on his own initiative . |
| 25 | Francis identifies the stages of the SI narrative as a chronological trajectory corresponding to ( i ) the Experimental Laboratory period ; ( ii ) the detonator period ( which refers to Debord 's boast that he provided the explosive machinery that ignited in May 1968 ) ; ( iii ) the Fallout period after the SI disbanded in 1972 . |
| 26 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 27 | It was at one such gathering that he described the venerable French cabaret singer Mistinguette as ‘ a rose-red cutie , half as old as time ’ . |
| 28 | Isis persisted in her demand to know his true name and such was Re 's pain that he allowed the terrible name to pass from his own body into that of Isis . |
| 29 | Before the final had begun , when Forget had put their chances at about 3–1 against and French president , Phillipe Chatrier believed that they had no more than one in five chance of achieving the prize which had been his ultimate goal from the time that he led the French tennis revolution in 1968 , Forget 's possible vulnerability in moments of such stress had been one of the chief causes for such concern . |
| 30 | It was during this time that he studied the Saxon language and the Anglo Saxon laws . |