Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We found he had a whole store of out of door knowledge which he was quite ready to impart . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 5 | Patrick then found he had no French money . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 8 | The scenario has left Lewis , who believed he had a cast iron agreement to fight Bowe or Holyfield after his stunning knockout of Razor Ruddock a fortnight ago , thinking he 's a victim of another Bruno panto script . |
| 9 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 10 | Trepper was interrogated by the Gestapo and we believed he became a double agent , a lot of misinformation was received in Moscow . ’ |
| 11 | By their third single , he believed he held an important position in the group because Solowka and Gregory were often absent from concerts . |
| 12 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 13 | I noticed he had a slight limp ; I recalled the attack on me the previous day and the wounds I had unwittingly inflicted , but decided to keep the matter to myself . |
| 14 | Levi did n't look at the leaderboard from the 7th hole until he was on the fairway at the 13th , when he noticed he held a two-shot lead . |
| 15 | He told he had an important engagement and must go , on the Saturday night . |
| 16 | And he came he became a prominent Parliamentarian , perhaps in the thirties . |
| 17 | Three independent sources confirmed he gave the positive test , it added . |
| 18 | ‘ He did ever so well in that match , which showed he has a terrific attitude . |
| 19 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 20 | And just a week before the Council opened he warned the papal curia that it must not be an obstacle in the way of reform . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 22 | When she finished he gave a short laugh and bowed his head . |
| 23 | When at length she lifted her head and sniffed he produced a spotless hankie . |
| 24 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 25 | I soon discovered he had a natural feeling for poetry . |
| 26 | He then took his engineering skills into the Alfa factory where he soon discovered he enjoyed the organizing side of the sport more than racing . |
| 27 | The jury heard he constructed a bogus defence claiming his wife was murdered by someone to whom she was supplying drugs . |
| 28 | Teesside Crown Court heard he suffered a black eye and cuts in the first attack . |
| 29 | I heard he saved a whole family during the Blitz . ’ |
| 30 | TONY FOSTER — NOW 42 — read chemistry at Oxford , decided he wanted a commercial career , joined ICI in the London sales office , then had two years as a Midlands sales rep selling chemicals for the Mond Division followed by three years as a product manager for sodium cyanide . |