Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he saw their mood he made no attempt to join or follow ; and the people , seeing he had not the cut of a government man , passed him by . |
| 2 | ‘ The tree in the forest , where he sealed up the dybbuk … ’ |
| 3 | But as he prepared to switch from the more austere environs of the Treasury , where he saw out the final 16 months of the last Tory Government , Mr Mellor spoke of the importance he and the Prime Minister attached to encouraging artistic excellence and preserving the national heritage . |
| 4 | He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) . |
| 5 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 6 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 7 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 8 | Mr Maxmilian Frizzell had never read a book since leaving school and did not know who Lawrence was , so he put down the newspaper and took up the Car Dealer and Garageman with what dignity he could muster . |
| 9 | A Chinaman was suffering terrible toothache , so he phoned up the dentist to make an appointment . |
| 10 | But he was told that he would have to pay rent for the land until the end of time , so he gave up the idea . |
| 11 | Nevertheless he was determined to do his bit , so he gave up the firewood business and went back to the casting shop to make shell cases . |
| 12 | ‘ She looked too small to be the Queen , ’ said Mr Fagan , so he drew back the curtains to get a better look . |
| 13 | There was nothing of that Nicholas wished to discuss , so he answered only the question . |
| 14 | Caruth , out of the rink since last August , was slow to warm up but once he shook off the cobwebs he looked the winner all the way . |
| 15 | Even if he shot away the locks and released the captive kids now , they had nowhere to go . |
| 16 | If he went back the day would be done . |
| 17 | One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released . |
| 18 | I wound down the window and asked him if he knew where the dolmen was . |
| 19 | The devil had the audacity to grin at her , as if he knew precisely the fires he had lit inside the centre of the earth . |
| 20 | He also described a call he had made later to his friend Hartmut Mayer of the BKA asking him if he knew how the bomb had been put aboard Flight 103 . |
| 21 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 22 | I th I think though , you know , after a year or two if he 'd moved away an if he moved out the area he would then break with his mother . |
| 23 | Then , if he picked up the news magazines he was forced to read about it over and over again . |
| 24 | One of them asked another if he remembered how the Magistrate Sahib had tried to make them strengthen the embankments and this caused such merriment that one of the landowners almost fell into the water . |
| 25 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 26 | The water in the moat was deep , and if he pulled up the drawbridge over the moat , no one could get to him . |
| 27 | I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know , |
| 28 | Lyell resigned not because of some inherent conflict between science and religion , but because he enjoyed neither the prestige nor the remuneration he had expected from the post . |
| 29 | Dicey is important precisely because he expressed both the form and substance of normativism in a clear and simple manner . |
| 30 | Because he took over the reins at such a late stage in 1763 Giardini was unable to entice to London either the best Italian singers or a famous composer . |