Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , his nerve deserted him when Russia invaded East Prussia , and he transferred two army corps from France to the East . |
| 2 | And he advised Premier John Major : ‘ Once you have accepted the slump in the pound you might as well bring them down more . ’ |
| 3 | And he stressed American interests across the Pacific , home to another clutch of friends . |
| 4 | Cook was very much in touch with what the public wanted and he arranged many excursions to seaside towns including Scarborough and Blackpool and resorts such as Brighton and Hastings on the south coast of England . |
| 5 | The American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote standing at a tall refrigerator — a chair and table being too cramped for the big mountain man — and he dropped unnumbered sheets , each with a few scrawled words , into a cardboard box at his feet . |
| 6 | We had known one another less than a year , all Paris knew of our passion , and he chose three months in the company of Du Camp ! |
| 7 | Mid-season , Honda had become confident enough in the Dutchman 's ability to equip his RS with a much-prized HRC kit and he finished top privateer in the World Championships . |
| 8 | Thus he became known and he declined repeated calls to important churches before accepting the challenge of the debt-burdened Whitefield 's Tabernacle in Tottenham Court Road , London . |
| 9 | His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response . |
| 10 | A slow smile spread over his face and he raised both hands to frame her face . |
| 11 | But this time , faced with an orchestra which apparently was at first slow to respond to his blandishments , the musician took priority over the Mahlerian moraliser and he revealed many details and subtleties of the score while keeping its huge overall span firmly within his sights . |
| 12 | He started to have fits and he suffered permanent damage . |
| 13 | He was rear-admiral in the squadron of ( Sir ) William Penn [ q.v. ] at the battle off Portland in February 1653 ; his ship was boarded by the Dutch and he suffered severe head wounds in the fighting . |
| 14 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 15 | This man came up to and he heard this chains . |
| 16 | He wakened sometime during the night and he heard this scrummage up in the in the light room . |
| 17 | He was a clever man and he wrote clever plays , but people still liked Will 's plays best . |
| 18 | Found a tune , he took up his pen and he wrote some words , and according to the story , according to the legend , the next day at day-break , he rushed off to the Mayor Dietrich , and was able to say , I have done it . |
| 19 | A further month went by and he wrote another letter to threaten proceedings . |
| 20 | His father was the laibon at the time and he had five brothers . |
| 21 | Barium enema showed multiple polyps in the rectum and he had total panproctocolectomy with ileostomy . |
| 22 | He spoke Maa fluently and he had unrivalled connections . |
| 23 | ‘ William , he was seventy-five years old , it does happen , you know , and he had terrible eating habits . |
| 24 | He was tall , near six-foot , and he had dark hair , black , and deep grey eyes . |
| 25 | His teeth were gritted together and he had dark circles under his eyes . |
| 26 | Whether he will be as successful again is open to doubt , because his own playing career was then an issue and he had substantial sympathy backing both inside and outside the committee and membership . |
| 27 | And he had tremendous flair . |
| 28 | Two terrorists were dead and he had one prisoner . |
| 29 | we were lucky to get this because chap er wanted to get out into a house really and he had one offer er from down south and they 'd put in and looked and they er and they sort of bo had n't followed it up , so |
| 30 | He was a dear father and he had two sons , doctors . |