Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 2 | With narrow lips and eyes he faced the strolling irony of the afternoon crowds , the young , the robed incurious foreigners . |
| 3 | Among these long-term influences he included the deplorable state of the late medieval Catholic church , a widespread and deeply-rooted anti-clericalism , and the indigenous English heresy of Lollardy , which had both fuelled lay anti-clericalism and prepared the ground for later Protestant doctrines . |
| 4 | For his own pictures he preferred the early autumnal colours . |
| 5 | Smacking his lips he placed the empty glass down on the bar . |
| 6 | One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled . |
| 7 | As one of Wesley 's leading preachers he attended the first Methodist conference in 1744 and in 1748 promoted the system of ‘ quarterly meetings ’ to oversee the local Methodist ‘ circuits ’ ( groups of societies ) . |
| 8 | When I got to my feet he took the injured arm in both his hands , told me to shut my eyes and start counting . |
| 9 | He says that under the circumstances he did the right thing . |
| 10 | For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass . |
| 11 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |
| 12 | For two years he fed the poor woman poison . ’ |
| 13 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |
| 14 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 15 | If this is between one and four years he suggested the safest route is a simple building society deposit account . |
| 16 | In his drugged dreams he saw the silent faces crying ; he saw the loving mouth distorted with grief ; he knew about the humiliation and the want — all his fault , his fault , his responsibility , his wickedness , his weakness , his sin , his sacrificial past , the victim to what end — who was murdered at that powerful stone circle near Keswick ? |
| 17 | A passer-by told officers he saw the 16-year-old bundled into a car as she went to the shops . |
| 18 | In appealing to conference delegates he stressed the latter . |
| 19 | He began to whistle , and taking his hands of the handlebars he negotiated the last half mile home without touching them again . |
| 20 | In the 100 metres he beat the emerging Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson ; in the 200 metres , in one of the most exciting events of the whole meeting , he tied for the gold medal with Mike McFarlane , and in the relay Scotland gained the bronze . |
| 21 | But at two other taverns he elicited the same responses he had at Stokenchurch : a young woman and her male companion , both olive-skinned and quiet , with a less than perfect command of English . |
| 22 | The haze of his first cigarette clouded the room briefly and in the streak of light from the curtains he saw the heaped clothes and the mark on the hotel carpet where he 'd knocked over the glass of water . |
| 23 | To his growing band of Cambridge friends he remained the brilliant talker and philosopher whose radical sympathies were ever more plain . |
| 24 | From beyond his rooms and from outside his seldom-washed windows he heard the persistent hammer blows of the carpenters astride the new roof of the Commandant 's office . |
| 25 | A PIONEERING rambler collapsed and died in the surroundings he loved the most the North Yorkshire dales . |
| 26 | With his sharp claws he separated the two beings and swiftly carved nostrils , eyes , ears and genitals , thus creating the first man and woman . |
| 27 | After a couple of minutes he heard the familiar clanking sound that indicated that Fagg was taking refuge in the contents of his various pockets and had commenced the process of smearing snuff all over himself and the surrounding furniture . |
| 28 | In the following two seasons he became the first player to win the Harry Sunderland Award twice for his performances in the Premiership Final victories over Hull and Bradford Northern . |
| 29 | To make up the numbers he had the Dutch-Belgian army , over thirty thousand infantrymen in all , which he did not trust at all . |
| 30 | He said he 'd noticed that our Mini was getting a bit down at heel , and in the light of Ken 's injuries he thought the least he could do was to give me a better means of transport . |