Example sentences of "[pron] he [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1952 an attempt was made to burn down an Evangelical church in Seville , and Cardinal Segura published a virulently anti-Protestant pastoral letter , in which he effectively accused Franco of betraying the sacred identity of Spain as a Catholic nation . |
| 2 | However , Gorbachev on Nov. 17 salvaged his prestige with a short address in which he unexpectedly produced proposals for constitutional reforms to strengthen the central leadership and raise the level of the republics ' involvement in it . |
| 3 | He deserves most of the credit for the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 ; and from 1895 to the end of his life he was president of the University College at Aberystwyth , to which he regularly contributed £1,000 a year . |
| 4 | The Austrian President , Kurt Waldheim , paid a three-day official visit on Dec. 4-6 , 1989 , at the invitation of Ben Ali , during which he also had talks in Tunis with the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , Yassir Arafat . |
| 5 | The events of what came to be known as Barricades Week began on 18 January 1960 , when a German newspaper published an interview with General Massu , in which he openly attacked de Gaulle 's self-determination policy . |
| 6 | It was always farming circulars for her father , copies of the newspaper to which he occasionally contributed articles on sheep , seldom anything for her mother beyond invitations the senders knew they were safe from her accepting , or appeals for money from charities , the Scottish Women 's Institute , funds to save a painting for the Glasgow Art Gallery . |
| 7 | This was a handicap which he never found time to remedy later on in life . |
| 8 | Thus John V of Portugal ( 1706–50 ) gave public audiences regularly twice a week at which he personally received petitions for the redress of grievances . |
| 9 | Furthermore he Intimated to me that there was a pure distillate of the very Stone itself buried in precincts of Glastonbury Abbey , to which he alone had access . |
| 10 | Clinton delivered a victory speech in Little Rock , Arkansas , at around 11 p.m. local time on Nov. 3 , in which he magnanimously applauded Bush for his service to the country and for his leadership during the Gulf War . |
| 11 | It seemed at first that Hepworth , too , might make a telling contribution when he began with three maidens , in the course of which he comprehensively bowled Pearson . |
| 12 | Which he then sent off-planet , by various well-disguised and roundabout routes , to an unknown recipient . |
| 13 | Can I further ask will he join me to congratulate the Chief Constable in an unprecedented move in which he actually formed links and created a an environment of partnership as recently highlighted in the Leicester Mercury . |
| 14 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 15 | Cregeen began work on the dictionary about 1814 , collecting words from the Manx Bible ( 1770–5 ) , for which he often gave references , and from other printed sources , but also gathering material , words , phrases , scraps of traditional verse , and proverbs , from current usage . |
| 16 | I shall show why I do not think — it is not what my officials think , but what I think — that I would be right to use the discretion which he correctly said lies with me . |
| 17 | My favourite story about the caddie who turned an Open in his player 's favour concerns the legendary Gene Sarazen and his bag-man Skip Daniels , who he always called Dan . |
| 18 | It was Sunday , and Yanto had enjoyed the casual breakfast with his Mother , something he rarely had time for during the working week Their chat during breakfast had revealed to him that his Mother had enjoyed the previous Friday evening out with Sid Watkins and would probably see him again . |
| 19 | Cortot could be a master of Gallic understatement but when the mood took him he hardly did things by halves . |
| 20 | While all kadis were appointed by the state and received allowances , for example , certainly in the period under review only the most important of the muftis received official appointments or salaries ; and indeed , even the salary of the Mufti of Istanbul , until the very end of the period , was considerably smaller than the allowances ( to say nothing of the income ) of a number of kadis over whom he clearly took precedence , the pattern possibly having been established by the perhaps consciously modest demands made by Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 21 | He had a large house , Elsinge Spital , in the City , and , from 1583 , a country residence , King 's Place , Hackney , where he entertained the queen , to whom he also lent money . |
| 22 | By a happy chance he became acquainted with ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones [ q.v. ] and his circle , through whom he also met William Morris [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | However , he can not be absolved of mismanaging her funds and those of Princess Sophia , Victoria 's aunt and Conroy 's ‘ spy ’ , from whom he also received gifts . |
| 24 | She was the only person from whom he ever needed reassurance or would ever take it . |
| 25 | He thinks that if he is only slavish enough in his service of the old hag , the beautiful girl to whom he once made love will come back to him : |
| 26 | One of his first papers was called the neuro psychoses of defence , and defence meant fending something away from consciousness , what he later called repression . |
| 27 | Brian had thrown her out for what he inaccurately called adultery . |
| 28 | He eventually sold the properties for £5 million — half of what he originally told shareholders he expected to get for them . |