Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For a while he was in financial difficulties , but by 1801 , after Paul 's assassination , he was working again at Tsarskoe Selo for the dowager empress and in 1802 Alexander I , the new emperor , appointed him architect-in-chief to the Admiralty , where he carried out minor works . |
2 | Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians . |
3 | He has said he lost something like £15,000 in potential earnings as a freelance builder and an injury suffered in the tournament has meant that he is unable to work — so he loses out both ways . |
4 | He then asked to speak to me , but I was on the phone so he rang back five minutes later . |
5 | No child to save the marriage , so he sets up some fishing straight away instead . |
6 | For example , if the accused was reconnoitring a home preparatory to burglary , he may not be guilty of this offence if he picks up some ladders which he has found in the garden . |
7 | So er , and the Chief Executive there would er , I think commit suicide if he , if he brought in less profits than the year before . |
8 | cos he comes back next Friday and we 're on lates so he 's on earlies so |
9 | Athelstan was an ‘ emperor ’ ( if he was ) because he ruled over several kingdoms ; the kings of León-Castile in the eleventh and twelfth centuries were sometimes called emperors for a slightly different reason , that they had aspirations to rule over other peoples . |
10 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
11 | READING chairman John Madejski is to make an official complaint about referee Clive Wilkes after he sent off one Reading player and booked five . |
12 | Re remote control yes , well my son has one of those he has an electric garage door on his house , and a copper frisked him before he went in last season cos he , he 's a younger bloke and er he said what 's this and he pulled it out of his pocket , he said it 's to open my garage door with he said what do you think it is a death ray or something yeah . |
13 | Outside , a camera-strapped tourist haggles before he hands over some notes for a photograph of a mother lost in a dome of ragged blankets and the two children who peep out behind her . |
14 | Since he has been in Deerbolt , he has passed his GCSE 's and is now trying to get a place catering college when he gets out next year . |
15 | It also noted that the master of the Ocean Ranger was not sufficiently prepared when he took over two weeks before the disaster , and that the operating manual contained too little information on how to use the manual backup to the ballast system . |
16 | No I was sorry I missed him when he came over last year . |
17 | Pity he did n't fulfil a promise he made to Darlington Business Venture when he came up last November . |
18 | When he came back several minutes later , he was still smiling . |
19 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
20 | The House passed this by 416–0 , and the Senate by 88–2 , and Johnson constantly used it later when he stepped up American involvement in Vietnam . |
21 | ‘ When he brought in wee pillbox hats , I suggested he add some graphics on top . ’ |
22 | When he turns up next week his trousers 'll be about three inches above his shoes . |
23 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
24 | So when he rang up that evening to tell me he was taking a fortnight 's leave towards the end of June and what about a trip north as soon as term ended , I did feel as if the fates themselves had taken a hand . |
25 | The Noble Viscount , Lord Whitelaw put it I thought extremely well , extremely persuasively , when he spoke on second reading on this question , not of the Chairman , but of the five Home Office nominees . |
26 | When he arrived back last night he was so happy about his love and wanting to marry Maria Luisa I could n't burst his bubble so soon . |
27 | To argue with a Greek today is to experience the same mixture of exhilaration ( because he is so full of ideas , so quick with logic ) and exasperation ( when he slides around awkward facts ) that many a growlingly impressed Roman experienced two millennia ago . |
28 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
29 | He had forgotten all about Gina , as he usually did when he chatted up pretty girls . |
30 | John failed dismally , however , when he set up any business with a partner . |