Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 2 | In his lifetime an obscure figure ( he was ignored by contemporary obituarists ) , he became known in the twentieth century through the publication of his Diaries , journals of horseback tours through England and Wales . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’ |
| 4 | He tried to take in the surrounding countryside that was to be his home during the months that lay ahead — if he lived that long . |
| 5 | he told them he 'd stopped in the fast lane instead of moving to the hard shoulder because he did n't want to ruin his tyre by driving on after a puncture . |
| 6 | He himself was only a little shy — and obviously very proud of the English words he 'd acquired in the few months since his arrival . |
| 7 | He 'd fought in the last war and is a very intelligent and basically optimistic person , like John . |
| 8 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 9 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 10 | If he 'd started in the early ‘ thirties , when we were courting and when the Depression was really biting , then he 'd have done all right . |
| 11 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 12 | His feet felt like lead and slowly , fearfully , he turned to look in the general direction of the voice . |
| 13 | The violent opposition to the king 's friends of Thomas , Earl of Lancaster , forced Audley to leave the court in 1318 , but he returned to serve in the royal army at the siege of Berwick in September 1319 . |
| 14 | Schmidt , however , like Giscard in France , showed his independence of America by talking to Soviet leaders in Moscow in July 1980 and he returned to triumph in the general election . |
| 15 | Instead there was only a blazing , triumphant surge of fulfilment as she accepted the fullness of Rune 's body into her own , and a mounting sense of exhilaration as he began to move in the age-old rhythm of possession . |
| 16 | ‘ Right ! ’ said Fen as he finished knocking in the strong metal pins for tying up the bows and stern of the boat . |
| 17 | A Chicago engineer and architect , he started collecting in the 1950s the books he loved as a child , and then moved on to literature , science and judaica . |
| 18 | Mr McTear , a telecommunications worker and former 60-a-day smoker , is suing for an unspecified sum of damages , arguing that when he started smoking in the 1960s there were no health warnings on packets and that by the time they appeared he was addicted . |
| 19 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 20 | The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians . |
| 21 | ‘ By that time , also , there were a lot of blues albums being reissued , like Otis Rush 's ‘ Groaning the Blues ’ which he had recorded in the late '50s with Ike Turner producing , and it had some of the best blues tunes on it , and some of the best playing I have ever heard . |
| 22 | Clinton received another boost when , on July 8 , he was publicly endorsed by Paul Tsongas whom he had defeated in the primary contests . |
| 23 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |
| 24 | After months of negotiations between the Russian , Chilean and German authorities the former East German leader , Erich Honecker , was flown on July 29 from Moscow ( where he had lived in the Chilean embassy since December 1991 — see pp. 38687-88 ; 38782 ) to Berlin where he was imprisoned . |
| 25 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
| 26 | He had seen the pose in several paintings in the churches and galleries he had visited in the past two weeks . |
| 27 | Seb rode to where Noah Plunkett still sat on his sheepskin ‘ throne ’ , giving the impression he had remained in the same place since the wedding party began . |
| 28 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 29 | It drew upon a series of speeches he had made in the late autumn , particularly an address to an all-union student forum . |
| 30 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |