Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A member of the Eugenics Education Society , the Clerical and Medical Committee of the BMA — where he campaigned for a stronger moral lead from the profession — and the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease , he moved freely between religious , political and scientific spheres . |
| 2 | He thought of her on the night train to Newcastle ( where he knew of a kindly , broadminded landlady who would see her through her trouble– , and shuddered sympathetically . |
| 3 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |
| 4 | He persuaded her to bring her husband home , where he died within a few weeks . |
| 5 | He threw out a hand , clutching at empty air , then fell backwards , tumbling head over heels down the steps , finally crashing to a stop at the bottom , where he lay in a spreading pool of blood . |
| 6 | Between 1647 and 1649 he was based in The Netherlands , where he acted as a major source of intelligence on economic and scientific affairs . |
| 7 | He was educated at Ealing County Grammar School , where he was awarded a state scholarship and a minor open scholarship to Christ 's College , Cambridge , where he graduated as a senior optime in the mathematical tripos ( part ii ) in 1935 . |
| 8 | He was educated at Shrewsbury School ( 1893–8 ) , where he was captain of cricket and head of the school , and at Christ Church , Oxford , where he graduated with a third class in classical honour moderations in 1900 . |
| 9 | Except he lived in a big house up on the Ridge . |
| 10 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 11 | Yet Sidonius belonged to the same aristocratic class as Salvian and the early ascetics of Lérins , although he belonged to a younger generation . |
| 12 | Consider , for example , Kloppenberg 's assessment of Sidney Webb : ‘ Although he passed through a Comtean phase that permanently altered his perspective from liberal individualism to organic collectivism , he had shed the positivist 's confidence in ultimate certainties as inconsistent with empiricism and democracy by the time he proclaimed himself a socialist in 1886 . ’ |
| 13 | Allen climbed a tree but although he climbed to a high bough and hung there swaying like a squirrel they were in a low-lying bowl of forest and he could see neither the Smoke nor the last rays of the westering sun but only leaves . |
| 14 | Although there is no clear evidence , reference made in Van Gogh 's letters indicates that the sexton 's house was on the north side of Turnham Green ( now Acton Green ) , and although he referred to a Methodist school , in all probability the church at Turnham Green was another of the non-conforming denominations and it seems likely that the little wooden church at Turnham Green , which he had sketched , was the earliest Congregational Church , sited off Chiswick High Road , opposite to its junction with Chiswick Road , and just west of King 's Place , The little church was probably in use prior to the erection , in 1878 , of the large Congregational Church on the adjoining sit . |
| 15 | Kondratiev 's basic proposition was that the advanced capitalist economies as a whole ( although he concentrated on a selected few only ) go through cycles of booms and slumps in a regular pattern . |
| 16 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 17 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 18 | From long experience , Belinda 's younger brothers would have known in an instant by the crisp , deceptively mild tone that she was no longer fooling around , but unfortunately Greg Carey was n't possessed of this experience , so he said on a thick , purring note , ‘ Because you need to loosen up , get rid of some inhibitions . |
| 19 | Then he thought he was being pampered , so he moved into a dirty hovel , ‘ where he lay on straw like a beast ’ . |
| 20 | None of Kasmin 's artists wanted to leave , except Noland , ‘ whose work had gone off anyway , ’ so he moved into a smaller space in Clifford Street . |
| 21 | Ludovico called exuberantly for champagne but it was unobtainable , so he settled for a sweet fizzy wine instead . |
| 22 | As God progressively overcomes the evil in the world , so he grows into a perfect , complex being , an unfolding of God 's real essence charted in successive transformations of human cultures . |
| 23 | He 's been granted bail , provided he lives at a secret address . |
| 24 | She followed Will along the mean cobbled streets until he paused alongside a narrow alley . |
| 25 | Ian led the pack in fine style , well supported by second rower Warren Aspinall until he retired with a damaged shoulder . |
| 26 | I do n't mind if he reads for a few minutes but that 's it . |
| 27 | Even at four in the morning , if he woke during a rare , sleepless night , Dexter liked to brush back the curtains of his bedroom and marvel at the twinkling lights . |
| 28 | Yes , he could go there if he wished as a lay evangelist . |
| 29 | The only way you can do that is if he goes to a special unit at Maidstone and works |
| 30 | If he had a hangover from too much of the strongest real ale to be found the night before — Jack was a formidable seeker-out of head-banging beers with frightening names — or if the play was too slow , or if he disapproved of a local rule , or a local official , or a new initiative by the PGA , or … |