Example sentences of "[subord] he [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachmaninov , almost 30 when he completed his Chopin Variations , was by contrast more cautious , setting out to compose his first large-scale solo work for his own instrument ; and , although he already had the popular Second Concerto behind him , he had also been deeply affected by the disastrous première of his First Symphony , just four years earlier , under the erratic baton of the guttered Glazunov . |
| 2 | Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ . |
| 3 | Although he never published the systematic economic treatise which might have established his reputation , Barton 's closely argued pamphlets were influential . |
| 4 | A muscle jerked in his jaw , and although he still retained the humorous gleam it did n't quite warm his eyes . |
| 5 | According to Sark law , by her marriage her estate , including the seigniory , passed to her husband , but she had no intention of relinquishing her hold on island affairs and , although he then became the official seigneur , she sat beside him at meetings of the chief pleas ( Sark 's governing body ) , prompting his actions and continuing , albeit illegally , to give voice to her own opinions . |
| 6 | His voice was low and deep , vibrant with a hard-held patience , as if he already sensed the latent protest in the way she 'd breathed his name . |
| 7 | Even if he still felt the same it was no good if I was going to drive myself mad by becoming obsessive . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ You 'd already said his calls were being made from callboxes , a tap would have been unlikely to trace him unless he repeatedly used the same box and he 's too bright for that . |
| 9 | His Lordship reached the conclusion that no evidence was not a jurisdictional defect because he expressly adopted the limited concept of review adumbrated above . |
| 10 | Mainly , I think , because he finally established the explanatory power of functionalism ; he showed more clearly than any of his predecessors how much more profoundly we understand man 's social life when we see it in all its functional complexity . |
| 11 | Darwin is thus treated as a major figure in the history of science because he both popularized the general theory of evolution and discovered the mechanism that seems to offer the best prospect of explaining how the process works . |
| 12 | And when Dr Neil commanded her to give Effie chloroform again while he finally manoeuvred the little body out the relief she felt was almost overwhelming , enhanced by the sudden strange joy she felt at the sight of the tiny purple baby boy . |
| 13 | He left them to it while he roughly bolted the U-rod back on again ; driving with a flapping-open boot lid was asking for attention . |
| 14 | Marcos had arranged the hand-out as a PR gesture he could easily afford , since he largely owned the pharmaceutical companies . |
| 15 | In this respect their position is not far removed from Richards 's , since he too ignored the external history of texts , on the assumption that the ‘ relevant experience ’ of the author is entirely accessible from his work alone . |
| 16 | Rob Andrew had a quiet game , which is meant as a compliment because whatever he did was done efficiently and without fuss , whilst he always took the right option . |
| 17 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 18 | Chuck guffawed uncontrollably and Joseph laughed too , but a little uncertainly , wondering whether he correctly understood the French boy 's irreverent humour . |
| 19 | The man listened intently at the Pearman 's door for some seconds before he too heard the low and feeble moan from the kitchen . |
| 20 | When he finally lowered the heavy bulk of his sweating body onto the bed beside her , his roughened hands pressed her small thighs wide and he forced himself into her immediately , ignoring her repeated cries of pain . |
| 21 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 22 | Union representatives at Castle View House in Runcorn handed a letter to Mr Hunt when he officially opened the new £15m building . |
| 23 | Automatically she lifted her head and arms as he finally removed the flimsy barrier and she lay open to his gaze . |
| 24 | His last customer took the smile with him as he unwillingly left the warm room and limped back with chattering teeth to the unwelcoming flat at the top of the stone stairs . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 26 | To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well . |
| 27 | Whilst ignoring his advice myself , I watched with great sadness as he gradually ruined the excellent draughtsmanship and ‘ eye ’ of two of my colleagues . |
| 28 | Whilst ignoring his advice myself , I watched with great sadness as he gradually ruined the excellent draughtsmanship and ‘ eye ’ of two of my colleagues . |
| 29 | As he dejectedly left the huge shed-like building that housed the sound stage , he slipped and a New York subway token fell out of his pocket . |
| 30 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |