Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] he the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made him the perfect fling . |
| 2 | This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter . |
| 3 | This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter , whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861 . |
| 4 | Some would say this made him the ideal publisher of a newspaper . |
| 5 | This gave him the opportunity to study Ballet , Pas de Deux , Repertoire , History of Ballet , Stagecraft and Lighting , and Ballet Music . |
| 6 | This gave him the idea of developing a method of switching on the fountain automatically , every time the pond was approached by a predator : easily achieved by adapting a passive infra-red detector . |
| 7 | All this gave him the confidence to state clearly what America 's interests were . |
| 8 | This earned him the unusual distinction of being elected to a fellowship of the society at the age of twenty-five ( 1852 ) . |
| 9 | The court heard evidence from a Nicholas Moody who said the next day Mrs Handy told him the machine had stopped working . |
| 10 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 11 | King then moved ahead again when a last end 3 gave him the third set 7-5 , but then the Corsie fightback began . |
| 12 | King then moved ahead again when a last end 3 gave him the third set 7-5 , but then the Corsie fightback began . |
| 13 | Sir Richard Hadlee is another who was nowhere near his knighthood as Test cricket 's leading wicket-taker when Notts first tossed him the new ball . |
| 14 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 15 | Cricket , he claimed , was his second religion , but his first won him the loyalty and affection of generations , whether the staff and pupils of Worksop College , of which he was chaplain , or his parishioners at Blewbury in Oxfordshire , of which he was vicar from 1964 until his death , five days before he was due to retire . |
| 16 | That gave him the chance to exercise one of his talents , as a teacher , but he was also a bit of a musician , and soon established himself as the organist at the parish church in Holloway . |
| 17 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 18 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |