Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he delegated much of the work he always made the final selection choices . |
| 2 | If I beckon , she will certainly come to me ! he thought , and his mind whirled , so that for a moment he barely saw the waiting Fiana candidates and the glittering Sun Chamber . |
| 3 | During this period he also wrote the first act of the ‘ sacred Singspiel ’ Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots ( 9 ) the remaining acts being written by Michael Haydn ( l737–l806 then Konzertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and Anton Adlgasser ( 1729–1777 , court and cathedral organist in Salzburg ) . |
| 4 | During this period he also led the British expedition to observe the transit of Venus in Hawaii ( 1874 ) , travelled in Siberia and the Gobi desert , and reported the Russo-Turkish war for The Times in 1877 . |
| 5 | As Merrill shook her head he deftly folded the typed sheets , replaced them in the envelope and handed it to her . |
| 6 | Though Pitt was always sceptical about the likelihood of an invasion he clearly thought the extra half a million a year it cost to keep the militia under arms was money well spent . |
| 7 | But he had provided a double failsafe mechanism for himself in case he accidently pressed the wrong key while accessing the code . |
| 8 | Despite being an East End doctor he also knew the great and wide world outside . |
| 9 | Last year he also coached the Scottish Ladies champions at senior level . |
| 10 | In the latter year he also published the massive and learned Northamptonshire Families for the Victoria County History ( 2 vols . ) . |
| 11 | Unlike his brother he genuinely respected the constitutional structures of Hungary and the Austrian Netherlands : he was attracted by the possibility that the local autonomy which they so strongly represented might make government cheaper by reducing the number of centrally appointed officials needed to run it . |
| 12 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |
| 13 | With the help of Fred ( later Sir Frederick ) White , Bowen managed to keep the project out of the clutches of the Australian National University ( at one stage he nearly took the whole setup to the United States ) , and he used friends in high places to raise large sums of money from the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations . |
| 14 | In fact he still had the worst — a mare called ‘ Bint Pomona . ’ |