Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he did other broadcasts , Snagge was particularly fond of the Boat Race , which he made his own for forty years . |
| 2 | He was well-read and clever , and he made it easy for stupid men to respect his intellect if he thought they could be of use to him . |
| 3 | Taking no chances , he avoided them both in one long stride . |
| 4 | Tim obviously thinks we 're going to be , in our old age — that 's why he got us involved with these investment people . ’ |
| 5 | Although Keane continues to develop into the most potent midfield player in English football he found himself short of powerful reinforcements yesterday . |
| 6 | Rejected by the priesthood , he found himself unfitted in some way for normal life . |
| 7 | She wondered whether he found her desirable in such an assailable position . |
| 8 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
| 9 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 10 | He bore it all with bright spirits and was never anything less than an exemplary prisoner . |
| 11 | Last summer on a routine check of his district , he noticed something wrong with one dust sampler . |
| 12 | It really did still hurt that he believed her capable of such evil . |
| 13 | Prison had been too good for him and although he declared himself innocent of any crime , he was most certainly guilty of fecklessness , leaving important matters of finance in the hands of his greedy younger brother . |
| 14 | But he took it all in good part . |
| 15 | And , having no idea how important this or that person was , whether they worked for the BBC or the TLS or the BFI , he treated them all with equal condescension . |
| 16 | He saw nothing unusual at that time . ’ |
| 17 | Well he brought me some without that on it |
| 18 | He kept himself warm in public libraries . |
| 19 | He kept her free of foreign alliances , foreign wars , foreign involvement . ’ |
| 20 | He felt it necessary in any case to establish himself on campus before leaving for Cyprus , in order to avoid arousing suspicion among his university colleagues , and to connect with the Fulbright Commission , which administered its scholarship programme through offices in American embassies overseas . |
| 21 | It 's usually about four or five hundred , he bought it second-hand for two hundred quid . |
| 22 | One of the reasons for Tip 's success as a caddie is that he was a very successful golfer in his own right ; he was a true three-handicapper because he earned his three on some of the world 's most formidable links . |
| 23 | As a composer he proved himself adept at large dramatic forms laced with fantasy and irony , epitomised by his opera ‘ The Love of Three Oranges ’ , which had its premiere in Chicago in 1921 . |
| 24 | He gave her another of those inquisitorial looks . |
| 25 | Even Albert Piggott had a good word to say for the dying man , as he drank his half-pint of bitter at The Two Pheasants . |
| 26 | He left me alone after that . ’ |
| 27 | He left her alone after that . |
| 28 | He left her alone after that . |
| 29 | If he held his own with other boys in the struggle for power he could hardly help behaving in ways which were unlikely to be lovable — a fact which assumed a definite importance when the only hope of affection came from those same boys . |
| 30 | So compulsively did he watch me empty my glass that he drained his own in compulsive sympathy . |