Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at the last him happened to come to a fair green way . |
| 2 | They said me and him had to go to the social security the next morning , and if he did n't he 'd be picked up . |
| 3 | The year before he 'd been into the whole Absolute Beginners scene and everything around him had to date from the late ‘ fifties , early ‘ sixties . |
| 4 | Agnes smiled at the old warrior , and then at Husband : by now , her anger at him had distilled to the warming spirit of pure hatred . |
| 5 | The boldness of her eyes when she had greeted him had spoken of no social fear . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His ‘ guys ’ in Lebanon , the Asmar network , were not to be risked on routine intelligence for the DEA , and Coleman had no other contacts there that he cared to expose to the Syrian-backed heroin cartel in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 8 | He agreed to preside over a public meeting of the inhabitants of Dundee to be held on 10 November 1819 to protest against ‘ the unprovoked , cruel and cowardly attack made on the people of Manchester ’ and ‘ to suggest the means most likely to lead to a reform of abuses ’ . |
| 9 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 10 | Yes , you see he agreed to contribute to a suitable replacement upon terms that we agreed , what happens if terms are n't , ca n't be agreed ? |
| 11 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 12 | In the town of Newton Stewart , not too far from Annan , a solicitor , Giles Davies , lost £1.8 million from his clients ' accounts because he became embroiled in a similar deal . |
| 13 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |
| 14 | It is typical of Richard that he accepted the task with alacrity and succeeded with such brilliance that almost overnight he became recognized as a famous warrior . |
| 15 | In his most recent book , The Essene Odyssey , he describes how , after reading our book in 1982 , he became intrigued by the mysterious principle allegedly worshipped by the Knights Templar under the name of ‘ Baphomet ’ . |
| 16 | Glass had his first contact with non-Western music in Morocco where he became fascinated by the geometric repetitions of Islamic art . |
| 17 | Later he became associated with a Christian denomination known as the Collegiants . |
| 18 | Much in demand for stage and film productions , he became associated with the early musicals of Lloyd Webber and his then partner Tim Rice in the 1970s . |
| 19 | Yet Walker also knew that railways were no longer omnipotent ; he became associated with the Great Western Railway in running a coach service to the west and acquired for his company a financial interest in Imperial Airways . |
| 20 | Beginning with the organisation of bible classes in the rural communities while he was still a student at Cumberland University , he became disillusioned with the apparent inability of the current educational system to tackle adequately the problems of social and economic mis-development in Appalachia . |
| 21 | Sukarno was sent to Surabaya , where he experienced loneliness and sought shelter in the Theosophical Society library where he became acquainted with the great Europeans from Rousseau to Marx . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After a lengthy loan spell at Leeds in which he failed to break into the first team , he signed for Shrewsbury in 1986 for £25,000 . |
| 24 | He clung shivering to the comfortless bed that seemed now the only tenuous security he had , but he was plucked away from it and hustled through the doorway , still bemused with cold and sleep . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’ |
| 26 | Paula Rojas , 18 , was ordered into a room while he got dressed in a green shirt and blue nylon jogging pants — the clothes he was found dead in . |
| 27 | And his , and he got rid of the beautiful eagle erm you know , reading desk and he got rid of the Bishops 's erm , chair , the Bishop 's what do they call it ? |
| 28 | There he got talking to a gaunt girl in an ash-stained black smock who claimed to have read his screenplay and who , over glasses of red wine , and later in the terrible pub , told him he was a weakling and a hypocrite with no notion of the ways of men and women . |
| 29 | But the old bobby — he 'd downed his pint of beer — he got taken before the chief constable and he got a serious fine , £1 . |
| 30 | He sought to negotiate over the following issues : |