Example sentences of "and he [adv] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Clinton campaign surged again and he easily won the Democratic nomination . |
| 2 | He lost both the French and Belgian Opens with last-day collapses , and he narrowly won the Open at Muirfield and the Irish after surrendering four-shot leads . |
| 3 | It was only after a passionate entreaty by his relative Lady Frances Wingfield , who lived in St. Martin 's , that Cromwell relented and he later presented the widowed countess of Burghley with a portrait of himself . |
| 4 | Jose also pointed out that editors and journalists who had defied restrictions or offended powerful men had been punished , and he wryly quoted the memorable and often-repeated remark of the famous Kenyan editor George Githii : |
| 5 | That issue he determined in favour of the councils , and he accordingly granted the final injunction requested by them . |
| 6 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 7 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 8 | The same was true of market produce ; some growers concentrating on just one crop so that ‘ whole tracts , like large arable fields , were sown with only cabbages or asparagus ’ , and he also appreciated the local economy in forcing asparagus through the necks of broken bottles . |
| 9 | He indicated that the UN was prepared to extend beyond Nov. 30 the mandate of the UN Angola Verification Mission , which had supervised the demobilization process , and he also suggested the possible deployment of UN peace-keeping troops . |
| 10 | Mulroney 's request was , however , granted by the crown and he promptly named the additional senators . |
| 11 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 12 | Lloyd captained West Indies 74 times , winning 36 and losing just 12 , and he twice won the Prudential World Cup . |
| 13 | and he early displayed the keen interest in education and the formation of scientific societies that he pursued throughout his life . |
| 14 | And then , the next day I went along and he actually caught the five foot one and ki and killed it and he gave us a load of steaks off it that I sort of |
| 15 | And he angrily denounced the Labour Party amendment demanding a delay in bringing back the Bill as a ‘ fraud ’ . |
| 16 | He claimed to have been consulted by more than one European government about his knowledge of espionage and he certainly made the most of his sense of melodrama , during his later years always carrying a revolver . |
| 17 | The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day . |