Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 2 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 3 | The only thing he recognised with any surety was intense desire , so intense that the vague awareness at the back of his mind of something wrong was stifled . |
| 4 | One lesson he identified from this experience was that ‘ the demand response to prices is relatively inelastic in the short term ’ . |
| 5 | He considered his notes ; what he needed from this interview was to confirm that Angela Morgan had not been in the office on Saturday , and a statement of Peter Yeo 's movements over the period within which Angela Morgan had probably been killed . |
| 6 | Leibniz would have been little more than an impressionable fool in Kant 's eyes had the caterpillar that he treated with such consideration been a mere thing . |
| 7 | The dislike he put into that word was every bit as strong as her parents ' could ever have been . |
| 8 | What he learned from that experience is that the aspirations and ambitions , for which Labour could not stand , has not yet found a voice ; to these aspirations the right kind of Tory message could be addressed . |
| 9 | One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) . |
| 10 | His greatest passion was for spreading education , and the good works he did in this field were prodigious in number and scope ; he was instrumental in the work of the Day Continuation Schools , the London Schools ' Swimming Association , the London Shakespeare League , and the Men 's Institutes . |
| 11 | What is most remarkable about the talks and lectures he gave on this trip is the extent to which America now revived in him the memories of his childhood . |
| 12 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 13 | He had at one stage been described as the worst farmer in Britain and RSPCA investigators found emaciated animals when they went there . |
| 14 | He had by this time been child factory worker , apprentice framework knitter and short-term seaman , so his reaction is significant . |
| 15 | He had in that capacity been supplied with a copy of Scott 's report , which was regarded by the government , and particularly by the Foreign Office , as strictly confidential . |
| 16 | Exactly what powers he had in that direction was not clear , but the Board did promise that no former member of the staff of an undertaking taken over would suffer any reduction of salary or conditions of service . |
| 17 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |