Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he got to the loose box where they had the horse he pulled a little bit of stick about six inches long out of his pocket and threw it right up into the manger . |
| 2 | He had several pets : a grey cat Maria , Shep the sheepdog who went everywhere with him over the fields , several birds including a lame pigeon that he loved to tease Maria with ; and one spring he reared a wild duck from the egg of an abandoned nest and was upset for weeks after the October day it finally flew away . |
| 3 | This spring he faced a preliminary inquiry in Ontario , where the Crown was required to show that there was sufficient evidence to warrant a full trial on the charges , and , subsequently , the accused was ordered to stand trial on a number of charges , including criminal negligence causing bodily harm and aggravated sexual assault . |
| 4 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
| 5 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |
| 6 | He kissed her then , his mouth warm and sensitive to her every response , and when she put her arms around his neck he gave a hoarse inhalation of breath , his arms tightening around hers , and the kiss took fire , grew passionate , their bodies pressing together , harder , harder … |
| 7 | As a result he did a French translation of The Happy Hypocrite which was published in 1904 by the Mercure de France , illustrated with a caricature of Boulestin by Max ( Boulestin had some difficulty in convincing the Mercure 's editor that Max Beerbohm actually existed and was not an invention of his own ) . |
| 8 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 9 | The first person clearly to express this idea was the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz , who wrote in 1866 that to see things is to form ‘ unconscious conclusions from analogy ’ : by an analogy he meant a pre-existing theory , or model , of what the world is like . |
| 10 | At a ceremony he presented a signed certificate recognizing the contribution and support to the Party the member had given . |
| 11 | When Henry V landed for the first time on French soil nearly forty years later , it was soon put beyond doubt that in his artillery he possessed a potential match-winner . |
| 12 | Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject . |
| 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 | ‘ By the indefatigable exertions of honest industry he acquired an ample fortune which his large but discriminating generosity rendered serviceable to the encouragement of virtue , by diffusion of knowledge and the relief of the afflicted … . ’ |
| 15 | Without any experience of that industry he found a useful partner in Thomas Gray , the manager of a small ironworks at Coatbridge , with whom in 1861 he formed the business of Colville & Gray . |
| 16 | In his humiliation he forged a magical net which caught her in flagrante delicto with her lover , ARES , and exposed them to the derision of the other gods . |
| 17 | under him , yet in practice he appointed an excessive number of them ; he compelled them to pay for their appointments , and in some cases to make annual payments to him afterwards . |
| 18 | In his first scene he established an unshakeable authority , which , Charles knew , was bound to strengthen the total collapse of the character in the second act . |
| 19 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 20 | No wonder he got an electric jolt . |
| 21 | So in winter he kept a large torch to hand , in case . |
| 22 | While in that capacity he devised an ingenious method of casting railway chairs , and also designed the wrought-iron roof of the New Street Station in Birmingham , which with a span of 211 feet was the largest iron roof at the time of its completion . |
| 23 | In this capacity he played a prominent part in strengthening Parliament 's position in Wales , and maintaining its foothold in Ireland . |
| 24 | In this capacity he played a major part in instituting the kidney transplant unit at St James 's ; and when he established the liver transplant unit there , it was only the third such centre in the country . |
| 25 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 26 | The measure of his performance was that at lunch he held a nine-stroke lead over the other morning starters . |
| 27 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 28 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
| 29 | In place of orthodox intercourse he became an addicted masturbator indulging in ‘ a suicide committed daily ’ . |
| 30 | Although Taylor was carrying out his research at the beginning of the century and despite the fact that his conclusions did not meet with the universal approval of either the workers or the management he left an important legacy which later theorists built upon : |