Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sounds he made fell into the embrace of a dead echo , and he felt that he might be the last man on earth . |
| 2 | As he made to sneak up the corridor to the stairs , the sounds of heated debate reached his ears , issuing from the front parlour . |
| 3 | He chanced to resurface at a moment in the film when the divine Ms Rau is indulging in carnal acrobatics with the leading male actor . |
| 4 | Mr Goldberg said they could bring a libel action , but he planned to wait until the appeal verdict . |
| 5 | Henry was going to add a chapter towards the end of The Complete History of Wimbledon in which he planned to deal with the failure of nerve he sensed in the place . |
| 6 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |
| 7 | With this in mind , he planned to return to the project and , in 1978 , funded by the National Endowment for Humanities , the documentation entered its final phase . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding ! ’ yelped Margaret Lenham , as much astonished as afraid at the sight of what he planned to use for the operation : a knitting needle . |
| 9 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 10 | James Callaghan , when prime minister , would have the subjects he planned to raise on a piece of card , but often did n't bother to raise them , as they gossiped about politics or took a stroll around the gardens on summer evenings . |
| 11 | Police even found he had hidden a piece of metal , which they believe he planned to file into a knife , hidden in the sole of his shoe . |
| 12 | The committee decided not to summon him , according to Chaplin , when they heard he planned to appear in the costume , boots and battered bowler of the Chaplin tramp . |
| 13 | He was n't given too long a sentence providing he agreed to go into a clinic — you know — to be dried out and cured . |
| 14 | The King added that he knew MacDonald could depend on Conservative and Liberal support , and he agreed to preside over a meeting of the three party leaders on the following day . |
| 15 | Although he insisted that he had done nothing remiss — he admitted receiving a 5,000,000 yen loan from an associate of the firm in 1989 but claimed to have repaid the money — he agreed to resign from the party ( but not from the Upper House ) for having caused embarrassment to the SDPJ . |
| 16 | In fact , de Valera and the civil servants he appointed to assist in the work , consulted Irish theologians on matters of society and church — state relations ( Longford and O'Neill 1970 : 295–6 ; Whyte 1980 : 379 ; Keogh 1987 ; Faughnan 1988 ) . |
| 17 | He avoided going to the prize-giving so that he would n't have to meet her . |
| 18 | But he avoided sitting on the sofa next to her although she 'd left space . |
| 19 | He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger . |
| 20 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 21 | He became absorbed in the task , grumbling at the stiffness of the holding screws . |
| 22 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates , generally regarded as the wealthiest person in the US , is no longer the country 's most eligible bachelor — he became engaged over the weekend to 28- year-old Melinda French , a Dallas-born product manager at Microsoft who joined Microsoft in 1987 and is now product manager for the Microsoft Publisher desktop publishing programme . |
| 23 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 24 | In The German Ideology Marx had used Tacitus as his source for tribal German society , but by the time of Formen he became influenced by the nationalist and romantic nineteenth-century tradition of German historiography , a tradition which was to influence him even more later on , and which was to have a dramatic and harmful effect on Engels . |
| 25 | Though lithographs by Minton are few in number , he became fascinated by the medium , and on 24 November 1948 took part in a Third Programme broadcast on the subject , timed to coincide with the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition , ‘ 150 Years of Lithography ’ . |
| 26 | Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out . |
| 27 | When Paul was encouraged at Corinth by the fellowship of Priscilla and Aquila we read that he became gripped by the Word ( 18:5 ) . |
| 28 | He became impressed with the superiority of the French and Belgian kite-balloons over his own spherical type , reported accordingly to the Admiralty , and was promptly recalled to initiate kite-balloon training at Roehampton in March 1915 . |
| 29 | Here , and again in London as resident scenic artist for the Grand Opera Syndicate at Covent Garden , he became frustrated by the conservatism of management with regard to production and scenery , and returned to America after the outbreak of war in 1914 , having been rejected for military service because of deafness . |
| 30 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |