Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 2 | Sinatra went through the worst period of his career when Universal signed him to a contract , put him in a disaster — Meet Danny Wilson ( 1952 ) — and then dropped him . |
| 3 | The French recognized him as heir to their throne by a treaty of May 1420 , on the understanding that he would marry the French King 's daughter , Catherine . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , the next time the Almighty posted him to Nineveh , Jonah did as he was told . |
| 5 | Still more Italianate are the three Livres de chansons ( 1576–8 ) of-Antoine de Bertrand ( d. c. 1581 ) , whose harmonic daring carried him beyond chromaticism to consider the ad libitum use of microtones . |
| 6 | His back had been pierced by a metal spike and only the fact that he remained conscious saved him from being dragged wholly into the moving machinery . |
| 7 | It took Robins 's total to 11 for the season since goal-shy United sold him for just £800,000 in the summer , and Robins said : ‘ I suppose I felt I had something to prove . |
| 8 | Something enormous hit him on the nose . |
| 9 | His sense of the ridiculous helped him through the myriad indignities which he and Lindsay underwent . |
| 10 | But in one of theirs Labour accused him off being about to ‘ tow the party line ’ . |
| 11 | William Swainson in particular congratulated him in an enthusiastic letter , written from his house in St Alban 's : |
| 12 | Winning the French Open took him through the door , down the passage , into the street and out into the sunshine Fame . |
| 13 | When six years later a son was finally born , his new family simply threw him out and the poverty is so great in the region that one month spent begging and homeless brought him to death 's door . |
| 14 | Gentle begged him to be a little more lenient , to which Klein said he 'd call Gentle 's studio in two days ' time , and if he received no answer would assume their deal was no longer valid . |
| 15 | The thought that Ace could go bad rankled him for some reason , and he mouthed a silent prayer that her judgment would remain sound . |