Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's good though that is. was running along a track at a constant speed he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark . |
| 2 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |
| 3 | In an experiment he taught the same period to two groups . |
| 4 | As a consequence of this initial perception he felt the general awareness of all staff had to be built — and built rapidly . |
| 5 | mummy he had the last cherry bakewell |
| 6 | Despite Allied opposition he reconstituted the expanded Polish territory under his control as an independent kingdom linked to Russia through the person of the monarch . |
| 7 | He was returned to the Bocardo Jail , from whose roof he watched the painful death by burning of Latimer and Ridley . |
| 8 | As a result he joined the Royal Manor of Portland Athletics Club and has since run in several races for the club in the Dorset Road Racing League , although he has yet to catch up with his friend Tony Coleman from B40 Workshop ! |
| 9 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 10 | For this ceremony he chose the beautiful pleasure garden of Shalimar , about five miles north of Old Delhi . |
| 11 | Mr McNally : ‘ Is it correct that on each and every interview he denied the two charges ? ’ |
| 12 | In effect he adopted the same methods to deal with worsening financial crises over the 1960s . |
| 13 | Cutting across country in the morning light he saw the Japanese transports moored peacefully in Dili harbour . |
| 14 | With skill borne of long practice he let the old man talk but guided his talk in the way he wanted it to go , then he started to ask questions . |
| 15 | With a skilful lurch he gave the bent hydrant on the sidewalk a crunchy shouldercheck and we were off , weaving at speed back up the street . |
| 16 | On being offered the choice of recantation or the stake he chose the former and , deprived of his see , lived out the rest of his short days as a prisoner in Thorney Abbey . |
| 17 | After lunch he formed the Italian habit of taking a siesta and he went to bed early . |
| 18 | Picking up a hefty cleaver he chopped the green skinned creature clean in half as easily as if it had been a stick of celery . |
| 19 | Through the carved window he saw the wet branches of the evergreens , darker on the dark . |
| 20 | Then , turning away to look out of the small , square window he delivered the cruellest cut of all : " Specially when she 's second best . " |
| 21 | At the bottom he found the three letters CIS and asked what it was . |
| 22 | With a tiny shudder he passed the hard knot of tension from him then looked up again , a faint smile at the corners of his mouth . |
| 23 | At yesterday 's investiture he joined the newly-knighted television presenter Sir David Frost , the sports commentator David Coleman , also an OBE , and the Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies , who was invested as an MBE . |
| 24 | For a second he thought the two of them were going to turn on him and hit him . |
| 25 | Faced with that counter-attack , Murray stubbornly refused repeated appeals to simply say under which Law he took the unprecedented action . |
| 26 | Shoving his hands into the pockets of his overcoat he felt the little box that contained the tie pin . |
| 27 | By way of assistance he gave the following example : |
| 28 | With 2,500 hours in his Cessna 414 Chancellor he felt the 1950s Magister to be within his capabilities , being small and strong with simple systems , twin engines , reasonable speeds , manual controls and the straightforward handling of an almost-straight wing . |
| 29 | First as a diplomat , later as Foreign Minister in 1959-66 and then as Chancellor he shaped the foreign policy priorities of post-war Austria . |
| 30 | During the Boer War he joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper , but was soon commissioned and later promoted to captain . |