Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his years in London Rambush expanded his knowledge into the field of chemical processing , continuing his studies at Battersea Polytechnic under Professor J. W. Hinchley , who invited him to become a founding member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1922 . |
| 2 | When Tom Webster drew him wearing a knee-length sweater , he ensured that , thereafter , all his sweaters were oversized . |
| 3 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 4 | But when Patrick found him scoffing a large tea in the Royalbion marquee that was not the reason for his jubilation . |
| 5 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 6 | Wordsworth concludes The Prelude with tributes to his sister Dorothy , and to S. T. Coleridge , both of whom , in their different ways , helped him to resolve the personal crisis into which the events of the 1790s had led him , and I have given a short biography of each . |
| 7 | ‘ Never leave home without one , ’ she said with a grim laugh , and helped him drag the unconscious man on to the floor . |
| 8 | Len Vickery finished third after carding a score of 68a round which helped him secure the past captain 's cup . |
| 9 | The children helped him find a better cure , too . |
| 10 | This helped him take an individual approach to problems , but he stayed in touch with other workers , and his findings were always made available . |
| 11 | Mark Roe explains the swing change that helped him win the recent Lancome Trophy . |
| 12 | In his meetings with legislators Reagan 's personal qualities proved invaluable ; his relaxed and affable manner , his warmth , humour and charm all helped him to establish an unusual rapport with both Republicans and Democrats . |
| 13 | they mentioned he had an excellent game — and from the goals showed the scot goalkeeper could have done much better on two of the italian goals … specially the first one — a flat shot from far out and at an angle too . |
| 14 | We found he had a whole store of out of door knowledge which he was quite ready to impart . |
| 15 | Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics |
| 16 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 17 | Patrick then found he had no French money . |
| 18 | He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park . |
| 19 | I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again . |
| 20 | Creed told him to take a right turn , down a narrow track that led towards the ocean . |
| 21 | Mr Byron Butler , 52 , the chairman , told him to make the necessary adjustments out of court before proceeding with sentencing in a drink-drive case . |
| 22 | While he ate and listened , the telephone rang three times on minor parish business and Flora badgered him to read a pious poem she had just written which began : |
| 23 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 24 | At the very height of the paroxysm , he made a movement with his knee which caused him to give a great cry which she , lost in the abandon of the moment , construed as passion , but was in fact a loud , animal yelp of pain . |
| 25 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 26 | He was the landlord of the Dowlais ironworks , in the 1840s the largest ironworks in the world , and his paltry returns from the Dowlais lease caused him to drive a hard bargain with those seeking the coal of his estate . |
| 27 | He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university . |
| 28 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 29 | For no earthly reason you caused him to believe a monstrous lie . " |
| 30 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |