Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 2 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 3 | And yet about him there hung the indefinable air of ugliness . |
| 4 | His Lordship reached the conclusion that no evidence was not a jurisdictional defect because he expressly adopted the limited concept of review adumbrated above . |
| 5 | This prompted an unusually animated argument between counsel and the judge , who was clearly outraged at what he expressly called the crass incompetence of the Crown Prosecution Service in serving and making part of the prosecution case a witness they knew would support the defendant and then seeking to discontinue when predictably he did just that . |
| 6 | He had taken his glasses off now and pulled his T-shirt up over his head , revealing that manly torso of perfect proportions , over which he deftly fastened the frilled silk shirt , and tucked it into his jeans . |
| 7 | For a start , he presumably felt the same way . |
| 8 | But he had provided a double failsafe mechanism for himself in case he accidently pressed the wrong key while accessing the code . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 10 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 11 | One way of characterizing Althusser 's intervention would be Martin Jay 's observation that he effectively destroyed the Lukácsian notion of totality . |
| 12 | In so doing , he wholeheartedly committed the English nation to the military struggle against Catholic France and inaugurated an important new phase in the international relations of both state and church . |
| 13 | Emotionally dazed and confused , she leaned weakly against his hard , muscular body , only the support of his strong tanned arms preventing her trembling legs from giving way beneath her as he swiftly removed the lower half of her bikini . |
| 14 | He obviously felt the same way , too , as we suddenly flung our arms around each other — we have n't stopped hugging since ! ’ |
| 15 | Here he obviously considered the pharmaceutical value of this plant important enough to include an illustration , and he felt the economic significance of Rubia tinctorum , madder , warranted an engraving by John Sebastian Miller , from Hortus Cliffortianus . |
| 16 | In doing so , he naturally infuriated the federal government in Ottawa , which protested that his words were an intrusion into Canada 's internal affairs . |
| 17 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 18 | When Mehmed the Conqueror took the city of Byzantium in 1453 he personally invested the new patriarch , Gennadios II . |
| 19 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 20 | Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ . |
| 21 | He so impressed the permanent secretary , Sir Donald Maitland , that he was invited to the key civil servants ' committees . |
| 22 | In later experiments he somewhat altered the behavioural design . |
| 23 | After several pints he suddenly startled the whole pub by saying in a loud , benevolent voice , ‘ And a Little Child shall lead Them . ’ |
| 24 | And yet he felt he alone had the whole worry of what action to take , and the responsibility for her life as well as his . |
| 25 | He greatly amplified the Frankish role , established by his predecessors Charles Martel and Pepin le Bref , as defender of Christianity allied primarily ( but not always harmoniously ) with the Roman pope rather than the Christian hierarchs and rulers of the Eastern Roman Empire based in Constantinople . |
| 26 | He constantly scratched the bald dome of his head . |
| 27 | I mean you did n't get the card , he just had the one card |
| 28 | I reckon he just took the easy way out . ’ |
| 29 | He just used the normal stain stuff , you know . ’ |
| 30 | He just handled the whole thing magnificently . ’ |