Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around the huts he had avoided all contact with her and although they stood side by side listening to her husband , he did nothing to acknowledge her existence . |
| 2 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 3 | He understood what she meant about Slorne because as the days and weeks had grown into months he had found great comfort in her strange and silent presence . |
| 4 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 5 | Music hall had shown Eliot that the chorus of the Greek drama in whose primitive origins he had exhibited such interest , could still work on the modern stage . |
| 6 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 7 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 8 | His largest fault , perhaps , and one natural to a good hater , was a congenital inability to accept that mortal creatures hold incompatible views and behave in ways incompatible with their views , so that to the end of his days he declined to accept any difference between holding a speculative opinion that is evil and being bad . |
| 9 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 10 | Over the years he had acquired real skill in his hobby , and had exhibited some of his studies of Scottish scenery and wildlife ; his real passion was bird photography , and through the years he had amassed a remarkable collection of pictures . |
| 11 | For two years he needed massage several times a day and still goes for regular check-ups at hospital . |
| 12 | By all the Gods he had showed those peasant scum . |
| 13 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |
| 14 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |
| 15 | He was growing like a beanshoot and most of the things he had had last summer were too small . |
| 16 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 17 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 18 | That was the sound he found to be the worst , worse even than the cursing and swearing and threats he had witnessed last Friday night . |
| 19 | The two Nordic girls he had seen two days before were now basking like seals outside another cafe . |
| 20 | Both newspapers he bought had big articles on the murder of Nicola Sharpe . |
| 21 | Through receiving so many treatments for his own various ailments he had gained some experience which was a help to others . |
| 22 | In particularly difficult cases he recommended using boiling water as well . |
| 23 | For a start , opponents he had skinned last season were wiser men second time around and less prone to be dismantled by the quickest feet in the Premier League . |
| 24 | At the end of 1777 de Broglie submitted to King Louis XVI an improved version of the proposals he had drafted 12 years before while at about the same time a new figure appeared on the scene , the 39-year-old Edward Dumouriez , an able army officer who had caught the eye of the king and been appointed Commandant of Cherbourg . |
| 25 | It was the first time in ages he 'd demonstrated any kind of protectiveness towards her and she could n't help warming to that . |
| 26 | Fly half Jon Bland kept City going forward after the break with some long wind-assisted touch kicks and within 12 minutes he had landed two penalties to put City 10–6 ahead . |
| 27 | MARTIN O'NEILL , the Wycombe Wanderers manager , emerged cheerfully to face the press , extolling the virtues of what had been , by his own admission , one of the most gruelling 90 minutes he had endured this season . |
| 28 | Now he checked with the policeman whose beat took him down Glenfair Road , the main thoroughfare into which Boundary Drive ran ; The list of car numbers he had noted that evening for one reason or another was unproductive . |
| 29 | Then he remembered the eager questioning eyes of the four women he had met that evening — it would hardly be suitable for them . |
| 30 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |