Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On cosmology he generally followed Tycho Brahe , whose scheme he reproduced in diagrammatic form . |
| 2 | At the Cotton Club he also heard Billie Holliday sing though it was towards the end of her life . |
| 3 | He had sailed to Ninfania from Illyria , in a big double bass of a galleon , with a prow carved like a volute , and it brought him to the shore in the harbour he then designated Ribaris , after the peak where the Ark had come to rest , once all the waters of the flood had drained out of the plughole of divine fury . |
| 4 | Apart from relief of intestinal obstruction he also experienced relief of dysphagia that supported the hypothesis that oesophagitis had developed secondary to vomiting in the presence of large bowel obstruction . |
| 5 | He spoke of his loneliness of heart and spirit that he was n't allowed to even talk to his love , and then , as though remembering that Rosemary had asked Leith to look after him , in his loneliness he suddenly asked Leith to have dinner with him . |
| 6 | In the first half he twice denied Cantona with excellent saves and shortly into the second he beat out another effort by the Frenchman . |
| 7 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 8 | During his time as Head Gardener he planted several M. soulangeana and after the Second World War he also planted M. kobus , M. mollicomata , M. sinensis , M. stellata and M. acuminata . |
| 9 | During this period he also studied painting under Charles Lucy [ q.v. ] in London and Paris , and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849 , 1850 , and 1851 . |
| 10 | Towards the end of this period he also became chairman of the Port of London Authority . |
| 11 | Capitalizing on this patriotic British theme he soon manufactured furniture made of native woods and decorated with elaborate brass inlay based upon native plants , depicting hops , for instance , instead of grapes . |
| 12 | When he set up his shop he already had plans for a town of books . |
| 13 | The witness told the court he also heard voices . |
| 14 | At Mr Ramirez 's request he also transmitted $60,000 from WedTech to a company controlled by the official after he left the government . |
| 15 | At this time of night he always enjoyed fish and chips , as opposed to a good , traditional Jewish meal , whether that be chicken soup with kneidlech ( a type of doughball ) fish latkes or potato latkes ( a latki being a fritter ) lokshen ( noodles ) or sandwiches made with baigels ( rolls ) and salmon . |
| 16 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 17 | Neither the man nor his union could have pursued the case alone , but thanks to the insurance he eventually collected £22,500 compensation . |
| 18 | For the final tour he even borrowed £1,000 , interest free , from his friend and neighbour , Samuel Whitbread . |
| 19 | When he produced a new brochure he proudly placed portraits of his wife and himself side by side with his dancing sylphs . |
| 20 | At this time of his life he always called Fisher behind his back Halieus , which is Greek for fisher . |
| 21 | In a theatre he frequently took refuge in a lavatory — not to solve his omnipresent bowel problems necessarily but to escape from autograph-hunters . |
| 22 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |
| 23 | One minute he was just standing there — and the next instant he suddenly grabbed hold of Laura , quickly scooping her tall , slender body up into his arms before carrying the struggling figure of the girl towards his large limousine . |
| 24 | In addition he once observed self-masturbation to ejaculation and the manual masturbation of companions . |
| 25 | Of course he later left Liverpool and I 'm sure there 'll be a lot of talk about that again . |
| 26 | The government insisted this was the reason he secretly contacted Castro to mediate a solution that would save him from the drug dealers ' retribution . |
| 27 | Asik 's faith in God was rapidly decreasing and the only reason he still trusted God was because the memory of his dear mother still lingered somewhere in the back of his now muddled mind . |
| 28 | He was quite insecure about being away from adults and at the beginning of the book he repeatedly asked Ralph if there were any adults on the island even though Ralph did not know . |
| 29 | Bhanu Pratap ( Singh , the state Governor , declared that the decision had been taken largely because of the serious law and order situation , but in his statement he openly defied convention by issuing a political message which questioned Gandhi 's right to be involved in the state 's politics . |
| 30 | At the hearing he also raised claims about her being absent from work and using foul language to residents . |