Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 2 | After that it will be decided whether or not he goes chasing in the New Year . |
| 3 | In his lifetime an obscure figure ( he was ignored by contemporary obituarists ) , he became known in the twentieth century through the publication of his Diaries , journals of horseback tours through England and Wales . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’ |
| 5 | He tried to take in the surrounding countryside that was to be his home during the months that lay ahead — if he lived that long . |
| 6 | The scribes he studies worked in the 14th century — 800 years after Dr Marchand 's Goths had relinquished Italy . |
| 7 | Sachin Tandulkar , Yorkshire 's first-ever overseas player , does his best to look as if he has lived in the northern county all his life |
| 8 | For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead . |
| 9 | Displaying remarkable maturity for a 22-year-old he has emerged in the last 18 months as the game 's outstanding personality , a player blessed with the full range of skills , someone with an unflappable temperament to match . |
| 10 | He has played in the last nine reserve matches . |
| 11 | He has exhibited in the Pastel Society at the Mall Galleries as well as in many London and provincial galleries . |
| 12 | A , whose career abroad ends when he attains a certain age , decides to retire to the United Kingdom , and before his return from abroad transfers his United Kingdom assets to a company he has incorporated in the Irish Republic with a view to future tax avoidance . |
| 13 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 14 | That is not to say that he would necessarily replace Weir , because in the long term Weir could still find himself on the side of the scrum — his lineout talents are difficult to ignore , and he has revelled in the additional freedom that the No 6 jumper is allowed . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what action he has taken in the last six months to protect hosiery and knitwear manufacturers from dumped third-world imports . |
| 16 | He has competed in the Middle East Challenge events for several years and for over two decades has raced both cars and off road vehicles . |
| 17 | But the West should know that , however long it takes to end the battle against the Iraqi tyrant , it will take much longer to end the bitterness he has tapped in the unhappy Middle East . |
| 18 | Mr Ashdown has been quick to contrast his 55 walkabouts with Mr Kinnock 's ‘ three ’ , and he has put in the long hours with a soldier 's determination to ‘ get the job done ’ . |
| 19 | Will he give an assurance that he will sustain the generous funding of Northern Arts that he has managed in the past few years ? |
| 20 | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost , whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary . |
| 21 | he told them he 'd stopped in the fast lane instead of moving to the hard shoulder because he did n't want to ruin his tyre by driving on after a puncture . |
| 22 | He himself was only a little shy — and obviously very proud of the English words he 'd acquired in the few months since his arrival . |
| 23 | He 'd fought in the last war and is a very intelligent and basically optimistic person , like John . |
| 24 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 25 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 26 | If he 'd started in the early ‘ thirties , when we were courting and when the Depression was really biting , then he 'd have done all right . |
| 27 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 28 | His feet felt like lead and slowly , fearfully , he turned to look in the general direction of the voice . |
| 29 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what percentage of his budget he intends to spend in the current year and next year on ( a ) opera and ( b ) poetry . |
| 30 | The violent opposition to the king 's friends of Thomas , Earl of Lancaster , forced Audley to leave the court in 1318 , but he returned to serve in the royal army at the siege of Berwick in September 1319 . |