Example sentences of "he [vb past] he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 2 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 3 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 4 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 5 | But when he talked he looked the same as he had always done ; eager , intent , screwing up his boneless nose , gesturing with broad , stubby-fingered hands . |
| 6 | He thought he had the upper hand while she was trapped here , and he was right — it made her feel awkward and uneasy , put her at a disadvantage . |
| 7 | I asked whether he thought he had the same difficulties as his father : |
| 8 | When he turned his head it vanished , although he thought he heard the faintest of noises that might have been made by claws scrabbling on stone . |
| 9 | He thought he glimpsed the slight gleam of light on a man 's belt , somewhere towards the bottom of the vegetable patch . |
| 10 | Jack froze , not knowing what he should do , and when he looked at Steve beside him , he knew he felt the same . |
| 11 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 12 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
| 13 | He said he had the same ability as Wino but pointed out that he ( Gray ) was injured at 16 and never fully recovered , so his potential would have been even greater than it turned out . |
| 14 | I was walking that way with Ernest on Saturday and he said he thought the bottom hedge belonged to anyway . |