Example sentences of "he [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pounced in the 30th minute , rifling home a super shot from 20 yards in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 2 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 3 | Well old Jack er , he di used to do the post round and he lived in the next cottage |
| 4 | Well , if he lived in the north- east , er part of this county , that great ar area where there is very little in terms of infrastructure perhaps er er it 's a pity we ca n't have a few more hysterics and we would perhaps get further down the road . |
| 5 | He lived in the top attic right , up against the east end gable of the building . |
| 6 | If challenged to justify why blacks are struck from the jury , prosecutors offer the most ridiculous reasons — ‘ he looked dumb ’ , ‘ he lived in the same part of town as the defendant ’ ( most blacks live in the same part of town ) , ‘ he was a mason and I was worried about masonic links ’ ( the prospective juror was a stone mason by profession ) . |
| 7 | He lived in the same house near Henley on Thames from 1935 , and remained inspired by English country scenes , like St Matthews near Lechlade and classic buildings like the Oxford buildings ensuring that his links with this region remain strong . |
| 8 | He lived in the same house near Henley on Thames from 1935 , and remained inspired by English country scenes , like St Matthews near Lechlade and classic buildings like the Oxford buildings ensuring that his links with this region remain strong . |
| 9 | Huss is remembered by a street named after him ( the Hussenstrasse ) and by his effigy on the house where he lived in the same street . |
| 10 | He lived in the last tomb , a bare chamber with a mat , a kettle , a kerosene stove and a radio which did n't work . |
| 11 | He said the house where he lived in the fashionable Perth suburb of Dalkeith , built for about £530,000 , was owned by a trust , and the beneficiaries were his children . |
| 12 | If nothing worked out , he lived in the empty school . |
| 13 | When he checked in the new phone book to see that his entry was there he did not , of course , look through all the Hugheses . |
| 14 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 15 | Although he spent a good part of each year in England , he ruled in the personal manner of his father and great-uncle . |
| 16 | By the time Gabriel and he met in the late afternoon they knew that Rose had probably never got home the night before . |
| 17 | In 1334 he was captured and ransomed by the Scots , gaining his freedom in time to fight in Edward III 's major Scottish campaign of 1335 ; but thereafter he shared in the general decline of English fortunes and interest in Scotland . |
| 18 | ‘ just because he fought in the International Brigade . |
| 19 | He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 . |
| 20 | My father had been a great admirer of Kemal Ataturk — he fought in the Turkish army against the British in Gaza — and Ataturk 's picture hung in the living-room . |
| 21 | In April 1282 he fought in the Welsh war with one knight and one serjeant and in the following year made over his English and Welsh lands to his son , Pierre de Joinville . |
| 22 | ‘ In the last few minutes one of the party of missing students — ’ Kath let out her breath on a gust ‘ — has made his way to the surface , and he has told us that there are still two men trapped below here , ’ he announced in the earnest voice of sepulchral doom so favoured by reporters at the scene of an incident . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's dead too ? ’ he asked in the same cold , interrogative voice . |
| 24 | In 1942 , after a long preamble once again accusing the government of ‘ favouritism ’ towards the Masai , he asked in the Legislative Council if a thousand square miles of Masailand could be set aside for ‘ settlement of fighting services personnel , when their job of destroying our foul enemies , who would make slaves of the Masai , is completed ’ . |
| 25 | He rejoiced in the large numbers becoming Christians and carefully recorded them . |
| 26 | He dabbled in the long jump until the age of twenty-four and then decided to switch to the sprints . |
| 27 | As a result of that demoralising experience Biggs was inactive for more than a year , a cut eye then leading to a stoppage against Francesco Damiani , the Italian he defeated in the Olympic final . |
| 28 | Given the various elements present in Eliot 's mind , it is hardly surprising that he found in the thundering drums of Stravinsky 's ballet , Le Sacre du printemps , the equivalent of the myth he sought . |
| 29 | Bull exploited hesitancy in the Polish defence when he headed in the second goal in the 36th minute , again from a Smith cross , after good work by David Batty . |
| 30 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |