Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's good though that is. was running along a track at a constant speed he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark . |
| 2 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |
| 3 | In an experiment he taught the same period to two groups . |
| 4 | As a consequence of this initial perception he felt the general awareness of all staff had to be built — and built rapidly . |
| 5 | mummy he had the last cherry bakewell |
| 6 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 7 | With narrow lips and eyes he faced the strolling irony of the afternoon crowds , the young , the robed incurious foreigners . |
| 8 | Despite Allied opposition he reconstituted the expanded Polish territory under his control as an independent kingdom linked to Russia through the person of the monarch . |
| 9 | He was returned to the Bocardo Jail , from whose roof he watched the painful death by burning of Latimer and Ridley . |
| 10 | As a result he joined the Royal Manor of Portland Athletics Club and has since run in several races for the club in the Dorset Road Racing League , although he has yet to catch up with his friend Tony Coleman from B40 Workshop ! |
| 11 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 12 | For this ceremony he chose the beautiful pleasure garden of Shalimar , about five miles north of Old Delhi . |
| 13 | Among these long-term influences he included the deplorable state of the late medieval Catholic church , a widespread and deeply-rooted anti-clericalism , and the indigenous English heresy of Lollardy , which had both fuelled lay anti-clericalism and prepared the ground for later Protestant doctrines . |
| 14 | Mr McNally : ‘ Is it correct that on each and every interview he denied the two charges ? ’ |
| 15 | For his own pictures he preferred the early autumnal colours . |
| 16 | In effect he adopted the same methods to deal with worsening financial crises over the 1960s . |
| 17 | Cutting across country in the morning light he saw the Japanese transports moored peacefully in Dili harbour . |
| 18 | Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody has a few thousand to go before he can ever catch Carson … that ca n't be done in jump racing of course … but the new champion is off to a flying start to the new season … two winners on saturday he won the first at Newton Abbot this afternoon |
| 19 | For Bede he became the fifth overlord of all the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber ( HE II , 5 ) . |
| 20 | With skill borne of long practice he let the old man talk but guided his talk in the way he wanted it to go , then he started to ask questions . |
| 21 | Smacking his lips he placed the empty glass down on the bar . |
| 22 | One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled . |
| 23 | With a skilful lurch he gave the bent hydrant on the sidewalk a crunchy shouldercheck and we were off , weaving at speed back up the street . |
| 24 | As one of Wesley 's leading preachers he attended the first Methodist conference in 1744 and in 1748 promoted the system of ‘ quarterly meetings ’ to oversee the local Methodist ‘ circuits ’ ( groups of societies ) . |
| 25 | On being offered the choice of recantation or the stake he chose the former and , deprived of his see , lived out the rest of his short days as a prisoner in Thorney Abbey . |
| 26 | When I got to my feet he took the injured arm in both his hands , told me to shut my eyes and start counting . |
| 27 | After lunch he formed the Italian habit of taking a siesta and he went to bed early . |
| 28 | Picking up a hefty cleaver he chopped the green skinned creature clean in half as easily as if it had been a stick of celery . |
| 29 | On 18 December he addressed the Liberal MPs assembled at the National Liberal Club , making what one observer called ‘ the speech of his life ’ . |
| 30 | On 11 December he shot the first-ever specimen of the crimson chat as he traversed the forest bordering the River Feel , to the east of the Liverpool Plains . |