Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 2 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 3 | ULSTER Unionist MP John Taylor today refused to apologise for controversial remarks he made about the murder of Roman Catholics by loyalists . |
| 4 | After unsuccessful attempts to sell his enormous stock of prints through public auctions he retired to his wife 's house , suitably named ‘ The Retreat ’ . |
| 5 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 6 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 7 | Between clenched teeth he quoted the words of the nineteenth century poet Phan Van Tri . |
| 8 | For public services he wrote a Collection of Offices as a substitute for the Book of Common Prayer whose use was illegal . |
| 9 | For forty hours he had not slept , and for nine had been in the thickest of the fighting . |
| 10 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 11 | One day in April 1943 Albert Hoffmann , a chemist who was working at Sandoz on the development of ergot alkaloids , felt unwell and went home early , where for some hours he experienced a variety of disordered visions . |
| 12 | Magee nodded and fumbled in his coat pocket for some matches he knew were there . |
| 13 | For some months he had been making his preparations by placing his men in key positions , so that if and when the moment came , the coup would be swift and , he hoped , bloodless . |
| 14 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 15 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 16 | For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow , where he was high sheriff in 1835 . |
| 17 | Through clenched teeth he hoped so . |
| 18 | In After Strange Gods he continued his investigation , but with an attitude far from simple romantic primitivism . |
| 19 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 20 | This Leo rejected , but after further negotiations he did suppress the archbishopric of Lichfield , and this was accepted by an English synod at Clofesho in 803 . |
| 21 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 22 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 23 | 2:1 When after some days he returned to Capernaum , the news went round that he was at home ; 2. and such a crowd collected that the pace in front of the door was not big enough to hold them . |
| 24 | After repeated pleas he secured a medical board to consider his case . |
| 25 | After few moments he hung up . |
| 26 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 27 | After 35 days he became jaundiced . |
| 28 | Curran referred later to his ‘ Irish birth without an Irish upbringing ’ , since after three weeks he left Dublin for Aberdeen , his mother 's native home . |
| 29 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |
| 30 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |