Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] he [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 2 | Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet . |
| 3 | This , followed by a pint of the Skein of Geese 's execrable ale and an overheard conversation between two gin-guzzling county ladies concerning the merits of shorter hemlines , had plunged him into abject misery . |
| 4 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 5 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 6 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 7 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 8 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 9 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 10 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 11 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 12 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 13 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |
| 14 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 15 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 16 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |
| 17 | Walesa 's critics had accused him of dangerous populism which threatened political and economic stability . |
| 18 | He had been trained to recognise anybody who had served under him , or who had helped him in any way . |
| 19 | In Vienna , where the Duke had travelled as Britain 's ambassador to the Congress , society had greeted him with outrageous flattery , calling him ‘ le vainqueur du vainqueur du monde ’ , but Lucille guessed that Bonaparte might have other ideas of the Duke 's military stature . |
| 20 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 21 | Confronting Nubenehem with his problem , she had introduced him to another customer of the City of Dreams , an elderly papermaster with flaccid skin and a bald pate ringed with long , dank hair . |
| 22 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
| 23 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 24 | Nature had endowed him with exceptional vitality and both Cagney himself and Warner Bros quickly appreciated how that vitality positively crackled before the camera . |
| 25 | Nothing else , for the rectory belonged to the church , and she had discovered that her late husband 's public generosity had run him into considerable debt . |
| 26 | The sight of the desk set had emptied him of all desire . |
| 27 | GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man . |
| 28 | I wondered if I had offended him in some way . |
| 29 | When he stood there was blood all over the white shirt his mother had dressed him in that morning . |
| 30 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |