Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His re-election to Parliament came in 1679 in Rochester , for which borough he sat until 1690 ; thereafter , until 1694 , he represented Queenborough and finally Maidstone again in 1695–8 . |
| 2 | By means not specified , from Portugal he arrived in Victorian England , where he got the idea that Lady Laetitia Winthrop ( played by a ‘ discovery ’ from the world of modelling , whose acting talent was 36-23-36 ) was his long-lost love from a world before the subterranean cavern . |
| 3 | Appropriately , he has sent us a letter about a piece he saw in last Thursday 's Diary . |
| 4 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 5 | The white football he regarded as another non-starter . |
| 6 | When he returned to Africa to work in journalism it was to the Gold Coast he came in 1934 . |
| 7 | With unseeing eyes he gazed at usual offices , charming patios , ‘ Ideal ’ boilers , and mature fruit-trees . |
| 8 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 9 | Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson could also run the gauntlet of hostility at Hillsborough today when he goes back to the club he left under acrimonious circumstances two seasons ago . |
| 10 | The biggest change has come within the ranks of the SDLP where Martin Bradley , Mark Durkan , Kathleen McCloskey , Margaret McCartney and Wilfred White have all been elected for the first time and Pat Ramsey makes a return to the Council chamber having reclaimed the seat he lost in 1989 . |
| 11 | The Nationalists suffered an early and bitter blow in Glasgow Govan when Mr Jim Sillars , the party 's deputy leader , lost the seat he won from Labour in a spectacular by-election in 1988 . |
| 12 | NIKI LAUDA HAS named the latest LaudaAir aircraft after the man whose cars he drove to two world championship titles in 1975 and 1977 . |
| 13 | Mrs Pouncey is at present editing his diaries , drawing attention to entries such as one for October 1949 , when , between 7.17 am and 12.25 pm he visited no less than twelve Roman churches , certainly with the intense concentration he devoted to each of the many visits they made to Italy together . |
| 14 | The Shah 's confusion was evident in an interview he gave to one of the journalists whom he had known the longest , Clare Hollingworth of the Daily Telegraph of London . |
| 15 | Later still when too weak even for these outings , he would lie in his bed overlooking the grounds of the Serampore College he established in 1822 . |
| 16 | . they were the last words he spoke for 2 and a half years |
| 17 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 18 | She had seen for herself the effect he had on many of his clients ; had herself been impressed by his ability to amuse them with his quick wit and entertaining anecdotes . |
| 19 | COMIC Lenny Henry rivals the grin on the trophy he won for best TV comedy at the Radio Times Comedy and Drama Awards in London yesterday . |
| 20 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 21 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 22 | When asked why he chose ‘ Horizon ’ as the name for the ensemble he formed in 1980 , Bobby Watson answered : ‘ Because I define the word as ‘ a vision that 's both moving forward and forward looking ’ — that 's what my concept of the band is ’ . |
| 23 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 24 | It proved to be Gooch 's day ; with Slack he put on 89 for the second wicket in seventeen overs , setting the foundations for the later onslaught . |
| 25 | Thus equipped , he could dash off two caricatures for publication within the day : but in the case of the coloured books he worked with greater care . |
| 26 | At intervals throughout the next months he worked on this material , in preparation for his show at the Lefevre Gallery in September 1951 and for other exhibitions . |
| 27 | In all this writing the emphasis was usually very heavily , as in the past , on the obligation of the diplomat to defend jealously the honour of the sovereign he represented against any claim , any change in ceremonial , which might be construed as the slightest threat to it . |
| 28 | Vincent had grasped early on that his deep-seated , recurring fearfulness in the face of life was a condition he shared with many nineteenth-century artists . |
| 29 | Throughout the autumn and winter he suffered from feverish colds and attacks of bronchitis , and was often forced to take to his bed for a week or fortnight at a time . |
| 30 | One day in a bar he ran into two of the people who 'd attended the meetings , Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher . |