Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 2 | I knew that Niki had not been happy at Ferrari , that he found the pressure of the Italian press and of Italians in general something abhorrent , that he did n't like being attacked in that country 's three sporting dailies as a failure , and that he found the byzantine intricacies of Ferrari 's Maranello a bit hard to take . |
| 3 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 4 | And although he produced the right paperwork , they could n't understand it . |
| 5 | Digby Wyatt 's earliest extant building is the Gothic Aldingham Hall , Cumbria , of 1846 to 1850 , and although he designed the Pompeian , Byzantine , English Gothic , Italian and Renaissance Courts at the re-erected Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854 , and The Art Journal commented that he had ‘ in practice attached himself more heartily to the classic ’ , he felt , like Scott , that the nineteenth century should have its particular form of architecture , but unlike Scott , he thought that this should be an adaptation of the Cinquecento style . |
| 6 | From 1851 to 1881 he was professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College London , and although he influenced the earliest microscopical investigations of Joseph ( later first Baron ) Lister [ q.v. ] , |
| 7 | He conceded the hole and although he won the 35th two fours at the last saw Rafferty home . |
| 8 | Disgruntled Conservative agriculturalists and imperialists resented Bonar Law 's dropping of the ‘ food taxes ’ in the winter of 1912–13 , and although he survived the initial furore sparked by this decision it was not clear that the ill feeling had been fully dissipated or his leadership wholly secured . |
| 9 | He 'd tried everywhere else in Swindon , and if he told the Inland Revneue , it would be a nail in the coffin . |
| 10 | And when he heard the first crash he determined to intervene , in some way that would not dispute the authority of the headmaster 's wife . |
| 11 | As Jack approached the Monument , the atmosphere grew colder , and when he reached the two silent figures at the |
| 12 | He needed a passport and when he got the correct form to fill in he wrote down his real name : Albert Sandison . |
| 13 | As a rule he only drank one glass , but that night he drank three , and when he noticed the full moon in the window he became excited , almost too much white in his eyes and a bulb of spit shining on his front teeth . |
| 14 | The interviewer hesitated , and when he asked the next question he sounded faintly embarrassed . |
| 15 | The Merkut clan was camped along the curve of a small lake , and when he saw the first yurts Burun kicked his st'lyan into a gallop , his spirit soaring with anticipation . |
| 16 | " Put him on the table please , " I said , and as he lifted the little animal I decided that I could n't let this opportunity pass . |
| 17 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
| 18 | In his relief , he dropped his pouch and as he stooped the open box of matches spilled around his feet . |
| 19 | His hand moved to the triangle of fair curls between her thighs and as he caressed the glistening pink bud which was hidden there she cried out for his possession . |
| 20 | The cottar , subsisting on an inadequate holding , had a greater need for cash earnings and more time to spare , but because he accepted the hierarchical consumption ethic of the village community his aspirations were lower , so that , although working longer , he did so at a lower intensity . |
| 21 | De Gaulle reacted sharply , not just because the evidence against Muselier appeared flimsy , but because he interpreted the British action as an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of his organization . |
| 22 | Not because that love and desire was mutual , but because he wanted the strongest possible hold over her … |
| 23 | But since he knew the first three elements of this expression before he observed his local price , it follows that the observation of his local price amounts to an observation of . |
| 24 | But though he trawled the lower slopes around the lake most carefully , he came upon no-one . |
| 25 | I found a plumber , but when he saw the solid fuel monster in the kitchen , he paled visibly . |
| 26 | But when he lifted the upturned boat and peered into the hollow beneath it he found nothing there . |
| 27 | But when he sniffed the whole house was full of the smell of the soup . |