Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , his inductivist conscience was satisfied and he carried out an inductive inference to conclude , ‘ I am always fed at 9 a.m . ’ . |
| 2 | He saw something erm he saw a cat and he zoomed out the front door and he was gone and it 's only when he lost sight of the cat he thought about where he was |
| 3 | In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months . |
| 4 | He listened , too , and for a moment the noises from the next room ceased , and he heard only a great and total silence , a silence that extended beyond the city , beyond the planet , a silence as empty and bleak and beautiful as space , as the universe itself ; the endless harmonious silence of the spheres . |
| 5 | After a short while he found that the gypsies were taking their horses to him to be shod ; and he had quite a busy time shoeing gypsy horses . |
| 6 | He was very much more out than I was and he knew where the gay scene was , not only in Edinburgh but also in London . |
| 7 | After Edward II 's overthrow in 1326 he was restored and he received back a substantial portion of his estates . |
| 8 | If he was right , and he sent up a silent prayer that he was , it could be he had stumbled on Angel One 's secret escape route . |
| 9 | and he observed how the oaken doors |
| 10 | ‘ Budgie is one of Amy 's favourite drummers , and he brought in an African tribal kind of feel to the album . |
| 11 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 12 | After a time we were beyond his own district , and he greeted only the other boatmen , asking them about currents and winds . |
| 13 | The phone rang , and he reached out a long arm and hooked it up . |
| 14 | ‘ Sorry , ’ she said , feeling him watching her and he fought back a violent physical impulse to give her a cuddle and take her away from all this . |
| 15 | Ben Hanbury is flying as well and he picked up the big race there yesterday with White Crown . |
| 16 | And he pushed open a small wooden door . |
| 17 | He found it addictive , stimulating , endlessly absorbing , and he allowed nothing-certainly no personal involvements — to distract him . |
| 18 | Again he mirrored her meanings back , and he held up the distorted black lumps that were her errors of syntax . |
| 19 | He was utterly amiable and without vice and he gave off a constant aura not merely of noxious vapours but of bonhomie . |
| 20 | The shaking of the head became a violent fit of denial , and he let out a strange sob , knowing back his head as he did so . |
| 21 | ‘ Now , ’ said Zach , jumping onto the bed , ‘ I can read my letter , ’ and he pulled out the crumpled envelope from his shorts . |
| 22 | And he built up a whole business just by picking famous names and saying , look I think your design is really outdated and it 's not doing your image any good . |
| 23 | When he put his nail to the edge , it sprang open like a locket and he drew out a concertina-folded strip of paper . |
| 24 | Catherine Crane fell silent , and he fished out the one-page note Teversham had handed him and read it , scowling . |
| 25 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 26 | He took his Tutors examinations in both disciplines and he set up the Euro School of Funeral Studies which flourished and gained a name for excellence . |
| 27 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 28 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 29 | But he had n't the easy masculine camaraderie , the blend of cynicism and machismo which had bound old Doc Stoddard so strongly to the Force . |
| 30 | His knowledge of English furniture was legendary , but he had too a sharp eye for pictures . |