Example sentences of "of [noun] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of minutes he heard the familiar clanking sound that indicated that Fagg was taking refuge in the contents of his various pockets and had commenced the process of smearing snuff all over himself and the surrounding furniture . |
| 2 | And er of course he alerted the other two fellows and there were no fighting there was only about two little fire extinguishers on the tower . |
| 3 | Coming eventually to the North of Ireland he joined the British Army and was posted to England . |
| 4 | By way of assistance he gave the following example : |
| 5 | He was indefatigable in confirming all who came to him as he moved around the countryside , and in his moments of leisure he wrote the longest of his Meditations on the theme of Cur Deus Homo , and his De Conceptu Virginali as a sequel to this work . |
| 6 | Having been in the militia in 1910 , when he was 14 , on the outbreak of war he joined the Canadian Army as a private in the Western Universities Battalion and was soon promoted NCO . |
| 7 | One of the first bits of advice he gave the First Church was , ‘ Bend the knee , but not unwisely . ’ |
| 8 | As to alternative sources of care he thought the better answer was the crossroads organisation rather than an nursing agency . |
| 9 | Soon after the liberation of Poland he joined the Polish regular army as a war correspondent and eventually entered Berlin with the First Polish Infantry Division . |
| 10 | In the nick of time he saw the yellow triangular patch on the shoulder . |