Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually managed to secure some work in the form of a commission from a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company at Mannheim , an amateur flautist , to compose ‘ three short , simple concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute ’ ( 10 December 1777 ) , for which he was to be paid 200 gulden . |
| 2 | He stuck with his ideas , and for a year did all kinds of manual work as a casual labourer till he eventually had amassed enough money to start a grocery business with a friend . |
| 3 | For this he only had to spend four months in France , thus profiting from considerable tax concessions for non residents . |
| 4 | He only had to wait 6–8 weeks . |
| 5 | they thought he only wanted to see two people . |
| 6 | In the first icy transatlantic blast , he pointedly refused to meet Premier John Major , who visits Washington later this month . |
| 7 | Henri was a totally normal baby until six months , when he suddenly started having infantile spasms . |
| 8 | The monarch remained the chief executive in the state : he alone continued to determine all matters of policy ( foreign and domestic ) ; he had the right to choose his own ministers ; he retained the right to veto legislation ; and he was left with the power to determine the summoning , proroguing and dissolution of Parliament . |
| 9 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 10 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 11 | But he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals in the general dining-room with the dairy people . |
| 12 | He thus arranged to have each Dalek fitted with a waistband of vertical metal slats to suggest some form of solar ray receiving system . |
| 13 | ‘ He already had had similar amounts — and more , much more — and nothing had happened . ’ |
| 14 | But he still had to obtain Parliamentary authority for the purchase of the part of the site not covered by Molesworth 's Act of 1855 . |
| 15 | He still managed to finish seven lengths ahead of Deep Sensation of whom much more will be heard . |
| 16 | Mind you , Richard Hannay in John Buchan 's The Thirty-Nine Steps planned his route because people were trying both to kill him and lock him up , and he still seemed to have some fun . |
| 17 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 18 | But he still tried to maintain some shreds of panache . |
| 19 | His attitude towards lab was rather blasé ; he even joked about the fact that he always managed to break vital pieces of equipment . |
| 20 | He was a tireless worker for the cause of deafness , opening many missions and institutes , attending many bazaars and functions to which he always managed to bring influential friends who would spend money freely . |
| 21 | He always wanted to become Prime Minister , and in 1969 he secured the safe Tory seat of Louth at the age of 29 , becoming the country 's youngest MP.The trouble was , he was in too much of a hurry . |
| 22 | His old friend Barfield ruefully suggested that ‘ at a certain stage in his life he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual animus taking stock of his moral faults … |
| 23 | Another race he could have won was staged across the Hoggar Mountains of the Algerian Sahara , where , after running a marathon a day in intense heat for 13 days , he deliberately slowed to allow another runner to win . |
| 24 | The Government initiated proceedings against Mr Marsh in September last year , but after a lengthy delay while he unsuccessfully tried to obtain legal aid , the case was dropped because it was judged to be ‘ no longer in the public interest ’ . |
| 25 | He also admitted keeping indecent photographs of youngsters in the society 's files . |
| 26 | He also planned to spend some time studying work in a flour-mill . |
| 27 | While de Gaulle quietly and sometimes not so quietly chipped away at a NATO defence policy integrated under American leadership , he also sought to assert French autonomy and leadership in Europe . |
| 28 | Bonington said he also hoped to see closer co-operation and understanding between the national park authorities and the farmers , tourist operators and everyone else who lives and works in the parks . |
| 29 | He also offered to hold televised talks with Bush and Thatcher , an initiative summarily dismissed by the UK and US governments . |
| 30 | Calling for the renunciation of the use of force , he also offered to discuss nuclear issues on the Korean peninsula as a whole . |