Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] he [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 In a BBC Radio 4 programme about the civil rights movement he said :
2 Opposite Maples Hotel he stood to wait , patient again , the name of the hotel a colourless , polished wood , and it 's colourless quiet front stung him like a glance of polite disdain .
3 The roughest police treatment he got , it seems , was in the West .
4 As commander of uniform operations department he had responsibility for areas such as traffic , dogs , crime prevention and public relations .
5 As he reached the parked sports car he went into a rolling dive , still clutching his leg , and bounced himself off the bonnet and over the other side .
6 So he said , well he said tell him to come in in about four weeks time he said , we 'll be getting rid of everything .
7 As head of the Near East , South Asian and African Affairs Bureau he inherited ( so he later claimed ) little in the way of policy for a region where American involvement had been intermittent or localized .
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