Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb past] he [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when lucidity returned to him , the recollection of that made him blush and cringe , but at the time he did not care . |
| 2 | Things like this made him feel his age . |
| 3 | In vain did he protest to the shopkeeper that it was all a joke . |
| 4 | In vain did he protest that he was here on holiday and nothing else . |
| 5 | Tolkien 's idea of poetry mirrored his ideas on language ; in neither did he think sound should be divorced from sense . |
| 6 | Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis . |
| 7 | He held his last press conference in 1955 , but no more than in 1946 did he resign himself to a permanent retirement . |
| 8 | Remorse over this made him fall ill , and he died within a matter of months to be succeeded in his office by his son Henri ( 1767–1840 ) . |