Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring of 1167 he led an army into the Auvergne , right on the eastern border of Aquitaine , in order to lay waste the land of Count William of Auvergne , who seems to have dispossessed his nephew the young Count . |
| 2 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 3 | In 1895 he entered the alkali business . |
| 4 | In April 1895 he discussed the construction of the Bat with Otto Lilienthal , the German hang-gliding pioneer , and learned a great deal about the practical problems of controlling hang-gliders in the air . |
| 5 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 6 | In 1465 he received the most valuable component of his early endowment , the duchy lordships of Bolingbroke ( Lincs . ) , |
| 7 | In this he achieved a remarkable fluency without the benefit of grammar or vocabulary . |
| 8 | From this he took a photograph which he passed across to Mrs Wilson . |
| 9 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 10 | He was still confronting me in a pugnacious attitude , but at this he took a step back . |
| 11 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 12 | Within this he pinned the official announcement that sentence of death had been carried out . |
| 13 | Over this he had a black mackintosh ; there were five belts strapped around his waist and a sort of grey linen nappy attached to the back of his trousers . |
| 14 | Against this he had a surprisingly quick mind , a splendid gift of repartee and a skill in creating a warm and friendly relationship on a very slender acquaintance . |
| 15 | For this he had a very big telescope . |
| 16 | In this he had the agreement of the ‘ new philosophers ’ of his century . |
| 17 | And he got this he got a ca no it was n't a cane but it was a quite a big stick . |
| 18 | To this he added a determination that existing regulations which restricted the number and quality of foreign seamen employed on British ships should he enforced and strengthened , drawing attention to the abuse whereby shipowners discharged British seamen at foreign ports and hired cheaper foreign crews to replace them and to the need to repeal the Indian Merchant Shipping Act which permitted owners to employ lascars on worse terms than British seamen . |
| 19 | By this he meant the career structures and sheer institutional inertia which kept thousands of the industry 's boffins stuck to their nuclear portfolios . |
| 20 | When he wondered this he felt a deep sadness . |
| 21 | From this he ran a fuse through the floor and out of an air vent into the garden outside . |
| 22 | For this he fought a hard ten-round contest . |
| 23 | With this he struck the first blow , and broke it in striking . ’ |
| 24 | The Colonel inspected the guard and then received from the architects a gold key inscribed " Stockport Grammar School , 1487 " ; with this he unlocked the west door and declared the buildings open . |
| 25 | For this he received a two-match ban . |
| 26 | My understanding is that in 1977 Willy De Roos achieved this under sail in one season , and for this he received a Krug Award for Excellence . |
| 27 | To pay for this he raised a mortgage of £500 on his house . |
| 28 | With this he faced the world , soon gravitating to Soho and the French pub , where he spent his last pennies . |
| 29 | Out of this he drew a Cellophane packet . |
| 30 | In this he initiated the Great Debate by exhorting teachers to ‘ satisfy parents and industry that what you are doing meets their requirements and the needs of their children ’ . |