Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed to notice the borrowed things that the girls wore , looking around him instead in dumb bafflement : it was a wedding day , a shining moment in his life , and , except for the dressed children , it could be any ordinary day . |
| 2 | Yates blamed father Mike 's coaching after he failed to reach the 1500 metres final . |
| 3 | He failed to make the necessary adjustments to his style of leadership — most obviously , to create some kind of transmission belt between himself and the nation . |
| 4 | During Allen 's second day in the witness box , he admitted taking the nude pictures but denied they were pornographic . |
| 5 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 6 | The Colonel slashed with his riding crop as he tried to disentangle the trapped limbers . |
| 7 | The car rumbled about him … even more restful than the noise of train wheels in the old days ; he tried to remember the old days … |
| 8 | Surere was already looking sleeker , Huy thought , as he tried to banish the servile feelings which still rose to the surface when he found himself in the company of his former superior . |
| 9 | Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts . |
| 10 | He tried to ignore the murmured whispers and laughter as he made his way through the streets across London Bridge and back into Southwark . |
| 11 | Thus he helped to pass the tedious hours of air travel during a world tour in 1946 by reading Bagehot 's The English Constitution . |
| 12 | Whatever he drew exhibited the old traits and gestures for which he had been criticised and condemned , but preferred not to correct : their so-called clumsiness , for instance . |
| 13 | He promised to release the empty flats in his row of Chelsea houses tomorrow if guaranteed repossession within 48 hours by some sort of contract . |
| 14 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 15 | And I always remember he said said to me , he 'd placed the biggest orders for pencils , of course in them , there were no ball pens , er he he received that from the London County Council by accident . |
| 16 | At least he 'd kept the vital figures away from her . |
| 17 | He loved sex too much to condemn any expression of lust , and though he 'd discouraged the homosexual courtships he 'd attracted , it was out of indifference not revulsion . |
| 18 | He was brilliant : he 'd assembled the right elements . |
| 19 | He 'd spoken the last words in Italian , and in Italian as fluent and colloquial as his own she answered , ‘ I 'm sorry about that . |
| 20 | Through the heart-shaped cutout in the shutter , he saw the Land-Rovers disappear into the dip where he 'd felled the small trees . |
| 21 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 22 | ‘ He sent him back to the pub ; he sat there for a while , and when he came back he 'd got the front shoes on . |
| 23 | When he came to consider the classic requirements of necessity and proportionality , he had this to say , at para. 14 : |
| 24 | He came to know the changing seasons , morning and evening , different winds , waters and mists , shade and silence , and the voices of nature . |
| 25 | He turned to reach the two glasses of wine that stood on a bedside table ; he 'd brought them with him from the dinner table . |
| 26 | His model and hero was his neighbour Mustafa Kenal Ataturk ; he strove to implement the same reforms in Iran as were being achieved in Turkey . |
| 27 | In it he envisaged linking the two seas to generate electricity , based on the proposals of the engineer Max Bourcart , who wanted the canal to run from Haifa Bay , through the Bet Shean Valley , and then down the Jordan Valley . |
| 28 | Volunteer Eileen said : ‘ For half a second I thought it was a hoax but as he began to name the four streets I took him seriously . ’ |
| 29 | He began to mount the uncarpeted stairs . |
| 30 | And to aid this he began numbering the main verbs . |