Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 2 | Went through so many operations he felt he wanted to give something back to the Health Service . |
| 3 | Off just 39 balls he made 82 astonishing runs , and the innings closed on 229 , setting England a run rate of 6.2 an over . |
| 4 | They ought to suggest also that he thought more deeply than his critics have ever recognised about just those issues he is commonly alleged to ignore : the processes of temptation , the complex nature of good and evil , the relationship between reality and our fallible perception of it . |
| 5 | According to Barry Pierce , Curator of Australian Art at the Gallery of New South Wales , other key works are : Glover 's ‘ View of Patterdale ’ , the finest Glover in private hands ; the Skinner Prout ‘ Willoughby Falls ’ ( bought for A$180,000 at Christie 's Australia , 1986 ) , one of only two oils he ever painted ; and the Skinner Prout ‘ From Sandy Bay , Hobarton ’ ( £15,400 , Christie 's London , 1986 ) ; and McCubbin 's ‘ Feeding Time ’ ( A$630,000 at Sotheby 's Australia , 1986 ) which stand comparison with their European contemporaries . |
| 6 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |
| 7 | By studying a series of successively younger embryos he found that the same cells at the tip of the limbs always contacted the central nervous system first , and that subsequent connections were always made along pathways established by the axon processes extended by these pioneer cells . |
| 8 | In his mind thinks of simply incredible things he would do to her , involving getting her on a couch and going into unrealistic positions without clothes , plus jerky movements . |
| 9 | For the male spadefoot toad , unlike the males of many other species , it is not a question of how many females he can mate with , but whether he can mate with any at all . |
| 10 | These are simply records kept by Constant Drachenfels of how many nobles he has slain by what means : for example , a descendant of the Duc de Parravon killed by disease is recorded as a symbol of Nurgle etched onto the plaque below the shield of that noble house . |
| 11 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 12 | He asked nothing but justice of Heaven , and of man he asked only a fair field ; and his father seeing of how good heart he was , gave him his sword and his blessing . |
| 13 | Asked why Hulme , with an open goal before him , did not move up further to be certain of his target before shooting , he answered that the man on the field did not have as clear a view of the situation around him as did the spectator and was not always aware of how much time he had for his moves . |
| 14 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 15 | From 1949 for a period of around four years he was a regular figure in Minton 's life , performing as his illustrative assistant whilst also doing free-lance work and other odd jobs . |
| 16 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 17 | Was she really prepared to accept all this humiliation for the sake of however many weekends he spared her before he tired of her ? |
| 18 | For more bullish clients he might suggest a maximum of 25 p.c. of the monthly saving could go into a Pep . |
| 19 | Like so many Victorians he looked the part , his face possessing an authority worthy of a minor prophet . |
| 20 | Like so many men he sneered at women 's intuition but conferred a quasi-biblical authority on his own . |
| 21 | Like so many celebrities he stands out … by wearing shades . |
| 22 | Unlike so many conservatives he had not compromised his position and was consistent throughout in his condemnation of Japan . |
| 23 | Unlike more organised writers he might perhaps more easily fall into contradiction , but it seems more likely , or at least more satisfactory , to suppose that Coleridge was fashioned greatly by his environment when writing . |
| 24 | For nearly fifty years he 'd worked with the New York Philharmonic , the orchestra 's manager , Nick Webster , was one of the first to pay tribute to his talent at America 's best known classical musician . |
| 25 | For nearly two hours he worked his way through his agenda , more administration and finance today than scientific exploration . |
| 26 | Even as a boy Haile Selassie had believed in his imperial destiny ; for nearly twenty years he had survived conspiracies , wars and revolutions , and his resolution had never faltered . |
| 27 | Still , he wanted to keep something of that spirit , if only its dauntlessness in what looked like a hopeless future ; for similarly contemporary reasons he wanted to offer his readers a model of elementary virtue existing without the support of religion . |
| 28 | Along with age , retirement is another word that does n't belong in this Irishman 's vocabulary ; he runs a bar , Leo 's Bar , in Meenaleck on the County Donegal coast , where with very little persuasion he will put on musical performances for customers . |
| 29 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 30 | After walking for about 20 minutes he saw two red pinpoints ahead of him , the tail-lights of a car . |