Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after he got there the atom bomb all but ended the issue and certainly ended all active prospects for the latest intake of air crew . |
| 2 | Hartlepool chairman Garry Gibson said : ‘ I 'm glad he cost only a train fare and not a plane fare . |
| 3 | He mentioned then a touring display on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid , and I am writing to you now with some more information on the display . |
| 4 | As for Master Gates , he came home a war hero and has been enjoying the fruits of his fame ever since . ’ |
| 5 | After an early honeymoon period during which he drove underground the anarchist trade union , the CNT , suppressed Catalan nationalism , brought peace to Morocco , and benefited from a shortlived economic boom , Primo de Rivera 's credit gradually exhausted itself . |
| 6 | He threw open a bedroom window at his farmhouse in Dummer , Hants , and yelled to waiting newsmen : ‘ You are wasting your time . |
| 7 | He spent almost every evening drinking and most of his days routinely and painstakingly abstracting information from the Science Reference Library , the Patent Office and even the US Embassy library in Grosvenor Square . |
| 8 | He pulled aside the mosquito net and in the gray light caught sight of his gleaming double-barrelled Holland and Holland 450 propped against the wall of the hut . |
| 9 | He needed only a mob cap and frilly apron to complete the image . |
| 10 | Johnson 's first task was to ensure a smooth transition of power , and for the time being he kept together the Kennedy team . |
| 11 | But the apex of his career was that afternoon in 1966 when he hoisted aloft the World Cup for England . |
| 12 | He flicked open a card index , scribbled an address and phone number and handed it to her . |
| 13 | She unfastened her cloak and he took it from her , noticing as he did so the brocade gown that so exactly matched the colour of her eyes . |
| 14 | His humour was sometimes expressed in schoolboyish practical jokes , but he possessed also a quicksilver wit , as illustrated by his remark to Lady ( Margaret ) Keynes ( née Darwin ) , who told him she had been bitten by an ape at Gibraltar : ‘ He was having revenge on the Darwins . ’ |
| 15 | When she arrived at the Rectory she found that Mrs Chamberlin was out , the Rectory children had been taken for a walk by the nursemaid , the Rector had asked not to be disturbed for he had both a parish letter and acute indigestion to tackle that afternoon . |
| 16 | and he had like a shooter thing that would er , erm a bolt or something would shoot the balls out |
| 17 | He dragged open a desk drawer , looking for matches . |
| 18 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 19 | But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape . |
| 20 | He wanted virtually no stage action . |
| 21 | He cited too a McKinsey report examining the common differential between the most and least successful companies . |
| 22 | He pushed forward the safety catch of his pistol . |