Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 2 | Gedge thought Charman was technically the worst of all the contenders but he liked the right bands in The Folk Devils , Josef K and The Three Johns , and more especially , he had an obsessive interest in The Fall . |
| 3 | The needle slipped into his blue-veined arm and he closed his eyes while he felt the first rush . |
| 4 | Levitt was rejected for the Queens Award only 12 months before he secured the top honour . |
| 5 | She rubbed sinuously against him as she felt a deep thrill at his arousal , and shut her eyes as he removed the last fragile barrier . |
| 6 | Farrell closed his eyes as he tasted the rotting matter on his tongue . |
| 7 | A smile tugged at his lips when he remembered the dead peonies falling at his feet and Sweetheart 's totally unexpected laughter . |
| 8 | His hand slid to her breast and he turned impatiently back to her lips as he felt the surging , swollen arousal . |
| 9 | He reached past her to pick up the papers , a faint smile curling his chiselled lips as he scanned the typewritten sheets . |
| 10 | The Doctor stepped back from the device as Petion entered , but his welcoming words died on his lips as he saw the liveried servant who followed Petion in , a machete held loosely and comfortably in his hand with the certainty of one who knows how to use it . |
| 11 | Chen stood up , a cry coming to his lips as he saw the bright flash of a knife being drawn . |
| 12 | Moments later the parade was dismissed and while others returned to their tents Charlie walked slowly back behind the lines until he reached the mass burial ground . |
| 13 | He shuffled his feet as he copied the true exponents and saluted seconds after the others had finished . |
| 14 | The muzzle flash illuminated Farrell and the yard around him for several feet as he raked the sub-gun back and forth , spent cartridge cases spewing from the weapon ; smoke and steam rising into the damp air . |
| 15 | His appointment in 1955 as Secretary of the Zoological Society of London , for example , was marked by his affection for the zoo , but also by ructions as he fought the old guard for his sensible proposals for change . |
| 16 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 17 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 18 | This was the way I always imagined Cedric would get home , if he ever did , but the only person I knew who did manage to negotiate the mysterious overland route was a Lancaster pilot on one of our neighbouring stations and he did the whole thing , from being shot down to arriving back in England , in three weeks . |
| 19 | It 's a year to within two days since he put the brave Londoner into a coma , from which he is only now slowly recovering . |
| 20 | Years after he left the Western Mail , in 1989 in fact , I was surprised to get a phone call from him . |
| 21 | Sainz 's second RAC victory clinched the fiercely contested World Championship two years after he completed the same double in his Toyota Celica with co-driver Luis Moya . |
| 22 | The twist to the story came when the old man was found to be a carrier of the very germs that he blamed the coloured people for bringing into the country . |
| 23 | Newall was flanked by two officers armed with semi-automatic rifles as he left the Moorish castle that serves as the Rock 's jail for the opening of extradition proceedings . |
| 24 | He put on his dark glasses as he crossed the other carpark , the one reserved for major executives . |
| 25 | The outbreak of war saw Bennett still in the navy blue of Imperial Airways and he heard the Prime Minister 's broadcast , declaring war on Germany , with much the same feeling as most of us who remember it . |
| 26 | ‘ Could a woman have beaten back the Scots , forcing King David to come to terms before he plundered the entire north ? ’ |
| 27 | But Mr Lilley dismissed Mr Mandelson 's comments as he toured the head office of local house builders Yuills . |
| 28 | But Mr Lilley dismissed Mr Mandelson 's comments as he toured the head office of local house builders Yuills . |
| 29 | He had drawn up the list of church members and he maintained the other lists too . |
| 30 | She should have stayed with him , told him she wanted to understand , held him in her arms while he released the terrible pain she had sensed inside him . |