Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took a quick break for lunch , gulping down a couple of sandwiches and a cup of coffee , then spent the afternoon painting the dragon , using dozens of different shades so that he shimmered with colour . |
| 2 | It felt as if he could see right inside her head so that he knew beyond doubt the minutest detail of her response . |
| 3 | So that er his former chauffeur joined the force , P C , he was in , he drove of course our first police car , well which he shared with P C , then when our cars got to number two , three and so on , he eventually came up , so that he retired as inspector , traffic inspector . |
| 4 | There would be ructions , especially if he went into coalition with the Tories . |
| 5 | It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course . |
| 6 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 7 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that on the plain words of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Rent Act 1977 a statutory tenant enjoyed that status so long as he remained in occupation of the dwelling house as his residence , and , therefore , the defendant had remained a statutory tenant after the possession order had been made ; that since she was neither a statutorily protected nor an excluded tenant within the meaning of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 she was entitled to the protection of section 3 of that Act and could not lawfully be removed from the premises until the possession order had been executed in accordance with rules of court ; that since the only method of enforcement provided by the County Court Rules 1981 was by execution of a possession warrant in accordance with Ord. 26 , r. 17 , the plaintiff was not entitled to re-enter by other means ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to damages for unlawful eviction under section 27 of the Act of 1988 ( post , pp. 879B , 881D–E , G–H , 882A–B , B–C , 883C–E ) . |
| 8 | Wright — so long as he remained in exile — could write what he liked . |
| 9 | So when he fled in terror from the slopes of Ben Macdhui in the Cairngorms one day in 1891 , people were reluctant to dismiss his story of how he had crossed paths with the ghostly Big Grey Man — Am Fear Liath Mòr . |
| 10 | She watched dazedly as he paced in front of the cottage , hands thrust deep into the pockets of his jeans . |
| 11 | I think he broke something because a big white van took him away and he returned with plaster on his arm . |
| 12 | She was looking better already and he nodded in satisfaction . |
| 13 | But it brought to mind Mrs Thatcher 's description of ex-Chancellor Nigel Lawson as ‘ unassailable ’ — shortly before he quit in protest at her opposition to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 14 | His practical education was evidently gained working in his father 's business and soon after he came of age he was taken into partnership , the firm then moving to the larger settlement of Corbridge . |
| 15 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 16 | The blaze broke out shortly after he left for work . |
| 17 | In his last memoirs , completed just before he died in exile , the Shah described King Hassan II as " a sovereign with a rate intellectual elegance … a perfect incarnation of two cultures , the Koramic and the European . |
| 18 | Just before he went to sleep , he could hear the wind and the rain in the garden , and he thought , for a moment , that he could see the face of an old man at the window . |
| 19 | He 'd got married just before he went to sea , and he had two voyages and he did n't earn anything . |
| 20 | Just as he ate with relish in the three-star Auberge de lI 'll or a Greek working-man 's café , so he could be both careless and dandified about his clothes . |
| 21 | In fact just as he relied upon intuition and perception rather than sustained argument in his prose discourse , so his public attitudes were imaginative rather than practical . |
| 22 | Just as he moved with grace , strength and love among men and women , so the Christian under the cross and the Church under the cross will have an effective , attractive and powerful ministry if we show his grace and live in his strength . |
| 23 | Claiming he will have this design ready by the autumn , MacDonald is taking a personal interest in product design , just as he did at AC Scotland . |
| 24 | He is ducking out of his responsibilities as Secretary of State for Education and Science , just as he did on health . |
| 25 | Each morning as soon as he went into school he was obliged to say , ‘ with a distinct voice ’ , ‘ Deus misereatur ’ and ‘ Kyrie eleison ’ together with other prayers . |
| 26 | He ran towards him as soon as he came in sight , and he was still a long way from home when the father first spotted him ( Luke 15:20 ) . |
| 27 | Almost as soon as he arrived on campus , he disappeared into a mass of wiring , flashing lights , bleeping tones and tens of metres of multicoloured printouts on endless rolls of chartpaper . |
| 28 | His tone faltered a little and he stared in front of him into the darkness . |
| 29 | The attendant 's smile faded rapidly and he looked at Donna with narrowed eyes . |
| 30 | This powerfully confirmed the way in which Tolkien had been accustoming himself to think about the world ever since he grew to manhood . |