Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Count Philip of Flanders suspected that his wife had committed adultery with Gautier de Fontaines he had the young man killed by hanging him upside down in a cess-pit . |
| 2 | Laughing he tossed the hot nut , and Emilia , squealing , caught it in gloved hands . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect he timed the whole thing with a stopwatch , ’ said Greg . |
| 4 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 5 | , who had felt perfectly well , was astonished to discover he had the early stages of tuberculosis . |
| 6 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 7 | That 's what you want he said the thick stuff . |
| 8 | A solicitor says that , technically , he DID act outside the law , but police say he did the right thing . |
| 9 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 10 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 11 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 12 | He says he understood the new model was to be portable , and to be used by surrounding hospitals — and says he feels fundraisers have been misled . |
| 13 | Owen Jelf says he won the first heat ; his brother the second . |
| 14 | He says he joined the Labour Party in 1977 , seven years after he began work with the forerunner to the present local authority . |
| 15 | Next day , when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields , he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance ; and when the rioters ' work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes : ‘ That 's pretty well , gentlemen , for one day ; I hope you will now go to your own homes . ’ |
| 16 | Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres |
| 17 | He 'd thought he had the longest living hamster in captivity . |
| 18 | Three independent sources confirmed he gave the positive test , it added . |
| 19 | The senator paused to light his first Havana of the day and as he got it going he studied the matted vegetation of the riverbank through its smoke . |
| 20 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 21 | Lamb claimed he spotted the Pakistani bowlers behaving illegally and brought it to the attention of umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer . |
| 22 | And just a week before the Council opened he warned the papal curia that it must not be an obstacle in the way of reform . |
| 23 | Reveals a source : ‘ Chris reckoned he deserved the best as he was spending so much time and money in the place . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 25 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 26 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 27 | Little Les Phillips just said in the dressing room , you ca n't get near him , he 's so explosive over five , ten yards , you know he played the one two bumpers into the ah , it 's a fantastic goal . |
| 28 | With what seemed super-human strength and control he drew the short sword to the left , then back to the right , his intestines spilling out onto the cobbles . |
| 29 | He then took his engineering skills into the Alfa factory where he soon discovered he enjoyed the organizing side of the sport more than racing . |
| 30 | But when he talked he looked the same as he had always done ; eager , intent , screwing up his boneless nose , gesturing with broad , stubby-fingered hands . |