Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 2 | Several of the dormitories were flooded because of the water , including Endill 's , and he had to spend some nights sleeping in Mr Rumback 's room . |
| 3 | He was , too , a keen crusader and he had witnessed Christian measures against the Jews on the continent . |
| 4 | And he had adopted another theory of extinction , discussed but rejected by Lyell , wherein species are like individuals and die of old age . |
| 5 | He has got off lightly : we learn with mildly comic surprise of mitigating circumstances : he had been good to a consumptive fellow student , and he had saved two children from a blazing house , getting burnt himself while doing so . |
| 6 | I drew this to the attention of Mellowes , my line manager , at an early stage and he had made vague noises about something being in the pipeline . |
| 7 | It was twenty to twelve and he had arrived ten minutes earlier . |
| 8 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 9 | bill for the quarter between the second of August and the twentieth of September , and he had to pay seven quid for standing charges for that bill . |
| 10 | The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May . |
| 11 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 12 | He had written an essay on ‘ Why I Am Proud to Be an American ’ , and he had won third prize . |
| 13 | To consolidate his position he had given the baronage their first general charter of liberties , and he had promised generous payments to the count of Flanders for mercenaries . |
| 14 | It had been less than two days since he had met the Doctor , and he had had little rest . |
| 15 | It did not solve his problem but the poor fellow had to make out his report and he had to find some element of evidence and so far he had n't got much to write down . |
| 16 | They had spoken several times on the telephone and he had rediscovered many things about her , things he had forgotten — her pleasant manners , her humour , her gentleness , and above all her dedication to her music . |
| 17 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 18 | The wear and tear of the 1991 season began to take its toll on Roebuck 's bad ankle — the left one — and he began to suffer slight dislocations during training while on the World Cup trail with the Wallabies . |
| 19 | He was sitting down then all of sudden he had this bottle of scotch and he told bring some whisky down . |
| 20 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 21 | And er it was all paid for , you know and it 's for three months , and then they 're getting six weeks off I think and he went to do some fishing down in Canada and all that . |
| 22 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 23 | Lawyer Loveitt had his head stuffed full of facts and he 'd said all men were free in England . |
| 24 | And er anyway , when I got in from work last night , he 'd done carrots , sprouts , cabbage , mashed potatoes , and he 'd done this pie . |
| 25 | And he had , kept getting bad , and he 'd had bad heads oh for years but he just thought that was , he was one of them people that got bad heads . |
| 26 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 27 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 28 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 29 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 30 | and he 'd spent fifty quid in Sainsburys . |