Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he proceeded to apply directly to the process of recruitment . |
| 2 | By the end of 1933 he had spent only $113 million and provided jobs for about one million . |
| 3 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 4 | I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I was not worried , but when he appeared I was shocked at how much he had changed even in such a short time . |
| 5 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 6 | ‘ It is unfortunate he had to leave so soon after your arrival . ’ |
| 7 | The producer paused for a moment to make sure he had heard correctly and then burst out laughing , flicking a nervous glance at Terry . |
| 8 | Harry was no longer looking at him , but felt sure he had leaned forward across his desk , as if their discussion were only now taking the desired direction . |
| 9 | But if he entered diplomacy at all he expected to do so at or near the top . |
| 10 | He begged her to forgive him all he had done amiss , and alter a pause he said , ‘ God has forgiven all my sins . ' ’ |
| 11 | All he had to do now was collect everything and more besides , just in case . |
| 12 | All he had to do now was to let Mr Hogan know how distressed Mrs Hogan was and how he had saved the day . |
| 13 | All he had to do now was what she had asked — get to see Steen , give him the photographs and explain that Jacqui was nothing to do with Bill Sweet . |
| 14 | All he had to do then was to make it known that he had promised to leave Laura alone so that she could have a rest in peace , to make an excuse about paying a brief visit to the Gents , to go up to his room — probably via the guest-lift — to stick his hand inside the room and grab the handbag , to take out the jewel before dumping the handbag , and then … ’ |
| 15 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 16 | Now all he had to look forward to was burying her . |
| 17 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 18 | Bus dri bus driver nearly we nearly hit the the thing nearly keeled over cos he did n't realize how many he 'd got upstairs and he went round the bend and it started to go . |
| 19 | Prior to settling in London around 1605 he had operated extensively in the Netherlands . |
| 20 | On March 17 he had apologised publicly to the " victims of deplorable and regrettable incidents " under his regime , stating that he now had " a profound , sincere and irreversible " commitment to reform . |
| 21 | In 1637 he decided to settle abroad , and he arrived in Holland on 27 July . |
| 22 | A few years later Millend too was rebuilt and by 1811 he had built yet another mill , Meadow Mill , downstream from Churchend . |
| 23 | He solved the problem by dispersing the fish in smaller groups once it became apparent he needed to do so . |
| 24 | At eight he began working part-time on a local farm , and three years later left school to go there full-time . |
| 25 | Eliot had known Lawrence 's work for some time , but in 1931–2 he had grown particularly interested in that writer , whose ‘ travels to more primitive lands ’ and use of Mexican divinities in The Plumed Serpent were physical embodiment of Eliot 's anthropological reading and a likely reason for that title , After Strange Gods . |
| 26 | He was n't er able to be so positive as that , but he did certainly give us the impression that er that he 'd listened very carefully to what we had to say . |
| 27 | I think he was an amateur who either thought he 'd succeeded or else was so nervous about what he was doing that he left knowing there had n't been time to kill you . ’ |
| 28 | The season began in January in Brazil and prior to that he had had only a couple of rainy test-sessions at Silverstone . |
| 29 | Well , before the 1965 British Open he did practise harder than usual . |
| 30 | It seemed that for reasons of his own he wanted to make quite sure that the woman knew how things stood , and really she could not have been left in any doubt , Maggie thought . |