Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When this firm closed down in 1843 he transferred to the locomotive drawing office of the Railway Foundry works , Leeds , of Messrs Shepherd & Todd , where he became acting chief draughtsman . |
2 | In 1918 he became professor of ecclesiastical history at King 's , where he wished to integrate historical studies with the collections at Lambeth , and in 1931 professor of ecclesiastical history in London University . |
3 | Not quite so confidently as in Stratford ; or in Oxford , of course , where he had memorised whole sentences from the Jan Morris guide . |
4 | Murray , he alleged , then had gone to the bothy next door where he had injected three men with heroin . |
5 | The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation . |
6 | Some , like Bina Gardens , where he had spent pleasant evenings with Frank Morley and Geoffrey Faber in the 1930s at John Hayward 's flat , resulted in the Noctes Binanianae , a little private anthology which I came upon later in the Houghton Library at Harvard . |
7 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |
8 | The secret policeman was back in uniform , a plain copper on the beat , back where he had started fifteen years before . |
9 | He had had a successful academic career at Cambridge University , where he had taken successive degrees leading up to his PhD . |
10 | In April 1965 Crawford opened with Harry H. Corbett in a new comedy , Travelling Light , at the Prince of Wales Theatre , where he had enjoyed such success in Come Blow Your Horn . |
11 | In Berchtesgaden , where Hitler had his home on the Obersalzberg , and where he had enjoyed special veneration in former days , the SD reported that his speech on New Year 's Eve merely elicited the response that it ‘ brought nothing new ’ , and there was ‘ hardly any credibility worth mentioning ’ left for his last broadcast speech on 30 January 1945 . |
12 | I had watched Quintin under pressure during the Suez crisis where he had shown admirable calm at the Admiralty in testing circumstances ; and while I had some misgivings about his famous ‘ judgement ’ I felt that he could take on the leadership and the job of Prime Minister , and make a success of it . |
13 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |
14 | He then told Raine , 37 , where he intended to stick various parts of his anatomy . |
15 | He could handle the fast rise now , although he 'd had some trouble along the way . |
16 | But Biggs also ran out of steam as the contest progressed towards the later rounds although he managed to conceal this inadequacy from the British champion . |
17 | Although he had suffered severe head injuries and eight broken ribs , he was found to have died from drowning . |
18 | Later , he made some corrective statements pointing out that although he had made these observations , he was certainly not advocating the use of any drugs , although he continued to ridicule some of the US government 's attempts to stem the tide as being the wrong way to deal with the problem . |
19 | He also wanted to publish the next volume of the Cantos as soon as possible , in order to bolster Pound 's reputation , although he had expressed private reservations that the most recent work was not of so high a standard as the rest . |
20 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |
21 | Although he had removed all trace of labelling from the cassette the Duty Men were not fooled . |
22 | John 's father left the family when John was seven , although he had spent long periods away when John was younger . |
23 | Although he had anticipated all sorts of difficulties , he found a flat to rent . |
24 | The appellant , in evidence during the trial , had insisted that he had made it clear to Mr. Burt that he was not a fully qualified accountant , although he had passed some examinations . |
25 | Although he had to make some concessions , he has declared himself by and large satisfied . |
26 | Although he seemed to avoid personal conversation with her now , one thing he always wanted to discuss with her was Faye 's day , with a rundown on his sister 's mood and any abnormality at all in her blood sugar , blood-pressure or anything else . |
27 | Pumlumon seemed to have got himself quite well into the enchantment now ; he was looking much less worried than he had looked ten minutes earlier . |
28 | Tories more famous than he had come nasty croppers in the past at conference time , returning tight to their hotels . |
29 | Thus ( 66 ) implies " He did n't dare oppose his wife 's whims any more than he dared commit high treason " , ( 67 ) that the speaker is of the opinion that they would n't dare say a word against him , and in ( 68 ) the speaker very clearly believes that the addressee does n't have the cheek to look him in the eye and tell such an obvious lie . |
30 | Once he 'd mastered sufficient English to use it without thinking , he surged forward , but his handwriting never improved . |