Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] he [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors sent or brought him small gifts . ’ |
| 2 | It was the last movement by the spider that recalled to Quinn the tiny detail that eluded him last night . |
| 3 | Charlotte had blamed Grant 's affair on the work that kept him all week in a rented London flat while she and her three small daughters lived in their Suffolk cottage . |
| 4 | Underwood 's new book , Flying Wing ( Stanley Paul £1499 ) , was intended to signal the end of a glittering career that brought him 55 England caps and a record 35 tries . |
| 5 | The only thing he seems to be good at is denigrating Labour , the party that brought him political prominence . |
| 6 | James was continuing to play cricket throughout this period having become a member of the Maple Club , and while his reputation as a player was growing it was his overall knowledge of the game that brought him most attention . |
| 7 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 8 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 9 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 10 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 11 | There were fairly obvious warnings here for a man contemplating the future independence of his own country , but , if he was shocked by what he saw here , it was the land freed by Toussaint Louverture , Haiti , that gave him most food for thought . |
| 12 | Murphy has recaptured the old form that earned him two honours with the Ulster senior team , winning one inter-provincial championship at Lahinch , in 1986 . |
| 13 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 14 | He called Whittaker to his office the following Monday morning and made him chief trainer , waving aside protests of inexperience and of indignation at Hardy 's sacking . |
| 15 | Similar outspoken attacks on Tory rebels over charges for eye and dental checks once boosted a revolt — and made him more enemies . |
| 16 | To secure the services of Reeves-Smith , he purchased the Berkeley Hotel in 1900 and appointed him managing director of the Savoy Company . |
| 17 | His return fire lifted Weaver off his feet and flung him two yards backwards , to sprawl at Bodie 's feet as Bodie came racing through the side garden . |
| 18 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 19 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 20 | ‘ The Master took them quietly from his person and told him such things were not allowed to be introduced into the workhouse , he then placed himself in a fighting attitude and threatened to knock the Master 's teeth down his throat , thereby setting bad examples to others ’ |
| 21 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 22 | Then I played a trick on Michael , who was a great chatter-up of girls at that time , and told him this person in costume was very keen on him , so he began to chat him up . |
| 23 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 24 | It was not long before his medical knowledge had ingratiated him with the prison doctor and afforded him all sorts of privileges . |
| 25 | No doubt something else had diverted his attention , and afforded him another cue to spread confusion everywhere around him . |
| 26 | Henri Nallet , then French Agriculture Minister , apologized to his UK counterpart , John Gummer , at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 24 and assured him that lorry drivers who had been attacked in France would be compensated . |
| 27 | I undid my thermos and poured him some milk . |
| 28 | But she also denied knowing Dassac , and the police subsequently discovered that she had had numerous telephone conversations with him and paid him large sums of money under a false name through a Swiss bank account . |
| 29 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 30 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |