Example sentences of "he [vb past] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow he made the softly growled question sound incredibly intimate . |
| 2 | He read the neatly typed letter … |
| 3 | In 1875 he entered the newly established University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , where his contemporaries included many other nationally-minded young Welshmen . |
| 4 | ‘ Just coffee , ’ he told the discreetly hovering waiter . |
| 5 | He continued to practise chemistry as a hobby in Enniskillen and after moving to Belfast in 1804 , and he prepared the recently discovered chlorine gas to help local farmers bleach their linen flax . |
| 6 | Ten years later in 1983 he joined the newly formed quality control team as an inspector . |
| 7 | He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age . |
| 8 | He examined the already darkening bump high on her temple . |
| 9 | He stared up and down the street in incredulity as he watched the finely dressed women going about their daily tasks , as if a world war had never taken place . |
| 10 | He was commissioned to write one of a series of monographs on the settlements of Roman Britain , and he took the almost completed text with him when he left England . |
| 11 | He wore the elegantly cut suit over a white shirt and an old Etonian tie . |
| 12 | They flared into hissing , spluttering life , and to the accompaniment of the Prophet 's hoarse scream of ‘ No-o-o-o ! ’ he tossed the angrily flaring box onto his gasoline-soaked lap , spun on his heel and walked quickly away in the direction of the road . |
| 13 | In 1841 , on the strength of his recent inheritance from Henry Hope , he assisted the newly appointed Master of Trinity College and writer on Gothic architecture , William Whewell , with funds for the restoration of the facade of the Master 's Lodge ‘ to something like its original shape ’ . |
| 14 | After a tough battle with Robert Maxwell he bought the News of the World early in January 1969 , and at the end of the year he bought the still failing Sun . |