Example sentences of "the [noun] he [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his release in the mid-1970s he became a successful businessman and hotelier but later went into exile in Rome , where he helped finance the USC , returning to Somalia in late 1990 . |
| 2 | In the afternoon he had a 34 for the first nine and I thought it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 3 | When he had gone some distance from the houses he met a mysterious little girl , who suddenly.appeared from behind a rock , and said , " Why are you weeping , my brother ? " |
| 4 | Back in the kitchen he found a stove-enamel jug . |
| 5 | In the churchyard he saw a new headstone , on which was written : |
| 6 | As soon as he got to the loose box where they had the horse he pulled a little bit of stick about six inches long out of his pocket and threw it right up into the manger . |
| 7 | He walked away to the desk , collecting his key , and as he walked towards the lifts he flicked a quick glance back to the girl who 'd been brought up as his daughter . |
| 8 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
| 9 | Indeed in April he had proved that such reading was an art : the Sitwells had organized an evening for the Free French in the Aeolian Hall , and in front of the Queen he gave a memorable and dramatic performance of " What the Thunder Said " . |
| 10 | Robyn opened her mouth , but before she could put it to the test he clamped a hot sweaty palm over her lips . |
| 11 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 12 | Legend relates that while he was living in the mountains he brewed a hypnotic drink , and after drinking it fell into a deep sleep and dreamed strange dreams . |
| 13 | In the pavilion he made a little speech to a few reporters . |
| 14 | As he was bending down to pick the post up off the mat he felt a cold hand on his exposed backside — little suspecting that it was the family dog giving him a friendly greeting . |
| 15 | And from the pavement he looked a big , decently dressed young man , for his head and shoulders were well above the back of the seat . |
| 16 | But in the room he saw a young man who had once been his friend . |
| 17 | Five thousand of his employees attended the funeral He left a personal fortune of $130 million , a staggering sum when the mathematical equation to bring it into line with its value today is calculated . |
| 18 | All government money and when my father was , after the , after the war he had a little old dredger , little grab dredger and they went along the quay dredging it all up and er , course they took so much out the hole , scrubbed it , all good coal again . |
| 19 | The major forum for " constructive " thought remained in the Christian organizations of which he was already a member , and throughout the war he played a prominent part in their deliberations . |
| 20 | Winger , Max Nicholson led the charge he played a blinder , but was luck going to go against them again . |
| 21 | As he walked through the centre of the town he saw a large group of navvies sauntering across the wide market square , whistling at the women and calling out to any particularly young or good-looking girls — or those of any age who were careless enough to throw a smile in their direction . |
| 22 | In the drawing-room he took a great deal of persuading to sit down , and then , when Louise finally joined them , drifting in in her rose-silk dress , Grégoire seemed so overcome that he forgot to rise . |
| 23 | From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits . |
| 24 | In the other he clutched a fifty-p piece , a coin he 'd discovered the evening before in Mrs Abigail 's purse , which carelessly she 'd left on top of the refrigerator . |
| 25 | Nathan was a simpleton : fat-faced and cretinous , with a drooly mouth and a silly smile , and when he tried to join in the hymns he made a terrible braying noise because he was turning into a man much too early . |
| 26 | On the whole he had a poor opinion of human nature , and he felt an angry contempt for politicians . |
| 27 | He longed to discuss Meredith further , his background , his opinions — on the surface he sounded a sensible enough sort of fellow but he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 28 | Out of the same pocket which had held the glasses he produced a small blue and gold box . |
| 29 | Later in the day he cut a vast birthday cake , and mounted a gold — yes gold — chariot , drawn by six horses . |
| 30 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |