Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 2 | Johnson was human too : in writing to Mrs Thrale he contradicted this point and stated more correctly that both towns had separate civil and academic identities . |
| 3 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 4 | By 1920 , although still receiving the Conservative whip in Parliament , Herbert regarded himself as an Independent , formally crossing the floor on the Irish vote on 20 November and thereafter sitting on whichever side he felt inclined . |
| 5 | Once on the other side he stood still and looked around . |
| 6 | Indeed , when our great man of letters , Ludwig Holberg , heard about Marie he came all this way from Copenhagen to meet her . |
| 7 | The trouble was that Baldwin did it by the methods he had forsworn and that his words and his style of appeal had become alienated front his actions . |
| 8 | Before he left for his six weeks stay in Swindon that spring he had first called her ‘ sweet ’ , she recalled four months later , ‘ in the little passage , near the willows , near the farm ’ on Wandsworth Common . |
| 9 | In the spring he finished fourth , just one and a half lengths away from Paris House in the Group Three Palace House Stakes at Newmarket . |
| 10 | Yeah , he knew we were there , he was responding and erm , he said er , he 's responding well to the operation and then on the Tuesday he went bright yellow and of course mum noticed it |
| 11 | Upstairs in the bedroom he found empty whisky bottles littering the floor . |
| 12 | He was supposed to be the paper 's foreign correspondent but instead of filing everyday reports like the other journalists he became obsessed with chasing after so-called spies and spent most of the time commuting between East and West Germany hoping to land the big scoop . ’ |
| 13 | At his own expense he spent some months in England attached to units of the British Army for training . |
| 14 | No , I swear to God Jean he had three , he had two pints and a glass , and I had three vodkas and it , Jean , do n't be silly the only reason that wee bugger 's |
| 15 | Escorted by Francis Lee as a striker of Olympic-standard diving technique , ironically , the man who bluffed a thousand referees he brushed pokerfaced past the press corps suffering from an acute case of ref-induced parrot-sickness . |
| 16 | It was not an emotion he felt competent to deal with , and he felt discomforted . |
| 17 | His opportunity to direct came from the Danzega Brothers He directed many of their T V series and second feature films . |
| 18 | He used to trap animals and collect them and then one day instead of going out trapping animals he wrote this poem instead and ever afterwards he wrote poems instead of collecting animals . |
| 19 | With straining eyes he watched small fragments , meaningless to the lay eye , delicately extricated from the tangle of earth about the roots and the soft turf beneath them , cased in plastic , and labelled . |
| 20 | From Berwickshire and Bathgate he found rare specimens of at least four fossil land amphibians including the earliest known ancestor of frogs and salamanders ; millipedes and the earliest known harvestman spider . |
| 21 | Dean recalls three or four innings when even after more than four hours at the crease he felt relaxed and fresh . |
| 22 | The Tess he had first loved had separated her body from her soul . |
| 23 | Chelsea , the club he joined four days later , are already paying Swindon 120,000 pounds in compensation for Hoddle the manager , but they 'd offered nothing for Hoddle the player , threatening to withdraw his playing contract rather than part with any more money . |
| 24 | As a member of the Historic Rally Car Club he gained 1st place in his class and 11th overall in the series of eight rallies held at Longleat . |
| 25 | Even when parking his car he looked masterly , totally in control . |
| 26 | Against world-class opposition he came fourth in the pony team event at the Drumlanrig Castle Horse Driving Trials , again sponsored by BNFL . |
| 27 | Whether it was when he 'd scored 10 or at some other delicate fulcrum in his innings that the Smallholder decided that he 'd sufficiently built his innings and could start unleashing his shots I know not , but the incontrovertible fact was that by tea he had 34 to his name , including five boundaries . |
| 28 | Mr Clark admitted at the Old Bailey he encouraged British firms to sell sanction-busting military equipment to Iraq . |
| 29 | An intensely dutiful , rather dour man , he was plagued by eye troubles and as a result he shunned fashionable society . |
| 30 | As a result he became bored and left early . |