Example sentences of "he [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He unlocked the small side door and stepped into the darkness . |
| 2 | His first cure was at Yalding in the Medway valley , where he succeeded the radical printing preacher John Strowd . |
| 3 | More recently he produced the overall sound coverage of Live Aid , and as a presenter one of his programmes , ‘ Three at 30 , Marvin Gaye ’ , won the 1989 New York International Festival 's Gold Award for Best Talk/Interview Special . |
| 4 | It was pointed out that he met the Foreign Office Minister , Douglas Hogg , earlier this month . |
| 5 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 6 | He expected the full year contribution to be unchanged from £143m . |
| 7 | He asked the forensic team leader for his views and the man shook his head . |
| 8 | Before the final had begun , when Forget had put their chances at about 3–1 against and French president , Phillipe Chatrier believed that they had no more than one in five chance of achieving the prize which had been his ultimate goal from the time that he led the French tennis revolution in 1968 , Forget 's possible vulnerability in moments of such stress had been one of the chief causes for such concern . |
| 9 | Ten years later , after another jail sentence , he led the Civic Forum movement to victory in Czechoslovakia 's peaceful revolution . |
| 10 | Iain MacPherson was spared this when he failed the common entrance examination for Merchant Taylors . |
| 11 | and he said it 's got worse since he got the new switchboard operator , which makes you think |
| 12 | Then he got the public sector borrowing requirement wrong . |
| 13 | Fumbling , panicking , he got the grey metal wastebin from under the desk and set it on top . |
| 14 | Off the lead and it was er , so boisterous up and down like this , well he did n't like it straight away he got the old aggro blade up his back about two inches wide |
| 15 | He got the old post office and the two cottages and the pub for two thousand , eight hundred I think |
| 16 | He flung the damp tea towel on to the table . |
| 17 | He scrapped the special car tax , cutting £400 off the cost of an average car . |
| 18 | Making sure that he was not visible from the house , he tried the brown bakelite handle . |
| 19 | He built the famous shark sculpture sticking out of Bill Heine 's house at Headington in Oxford , and also the legs which once adourned the front of Mr Heine 's Oxford cinema , Not the Moulin Rouge , but the lease ran out and the famous legs had to go . |
| 20 | To enable it to keep in touch with Fort George he built the 30-ton Highland Galley , capable of carrying 60 soldiers or 20 tons of supplies and , he claimed , ‘ seldom above three or four hours in her passage ’ . |
| 21 | Beneath the pad he found the small entry wound ; the larger exit hole had gone unnoticed beneath the man 's leg and was draining the lifeblood from him . |
| 22 | A four-year-old boy nearly bled to death after karate kicking a glass door as he mimicked the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles . |
| 23 | He regarded the Old Testament text as an accurate historical record , as authoritative in matters of doctrine and ethics , and as inspired of God . |
| 24 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 25 | He helped the old man climb into the saddle . |
| 26 | He drew the hinged stopper back and put the mouth of the bottle to the child 's lips , wetting them . |
| 27 | The metal cool against his palms , his heart still pummelling , he drew the fresh dawn air into his lungs . |
| 28 | At Stirling , he created the so-called palace block , with exteriors modelled on French palace architecture like those of Falkland and adorned with statues ranging from dignified sculpture to the grotesque — the latter seen in the splendid representation of the king himself . |
| 29 | Five years later , he created the original cotton pique shirt embroidered with the famous crocodile . |
| 30 | He approached the oak-panelled reception desk and returned the receptionist 's smile . |