Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Katherine divorced him and he married the Italian girl , Yolanda . |
2 | ‘ Ta , ’ said Willie gratefully and he touched the soft wool of the pullover . |
3 | And he touched the thick-ribbed beer mug , brought it to his lips and drank again , sour , brown English beer . |
4 | He recognised the man with the white handlebar moustache sitting high in a ridiculous Japanese jeep , Health Physics branch , and he heard the sharp horn blast before he saw that the road ahead of him was clear . |
5 | The outbreak of war saw Bennett still in the navy blue of Imperial Airways and he heard the Prime Minister 's broadcast , declaring war on Germany , with much the same feeling as most of us who remember it . |
6 | He felt great , he worked with class and he had the right attitude . |
7 | The thing is you 've got to it 's it 's like Nigel , I mean , he works for my uncle erm and he had the other guy Mark working for him for a few years and then he employed Nigel , but Mark was n't a fully qualified plumber and Nigel was and he 's ooh I do n't know about I think he 's about nineteen or no he 's about twenty three I think , yeah |
8 | and his mate had one and he had the other one and he said I 'll never be able to use them he said and they 're in the way , can you do anything with them ? |
9 | He was up for a western , and he had the long hair , but after school he went to a barber and had his head shaved . |
10 | And he had the strange feeling that he was moving in a dream . |
11 | Sir Walter Scott , however , had no such constraints upon him fifty years later , and he had the added advantage of seeing Lady Grange 's journal . |
12 | His uncle , John George , owned a highly successful cotton agency which was one of the largest in Manchester , and he had the wealthy lifestyle that his nephew craved . |
13 | Nuadu could see that even the pale , jellied part of one eye was partly missing and he had the sudden sickening impression that it had been eaten away from within . |
14 | His iron-grey hair was parted in the middle and he had the mutton-chop whiskers of a bygone age . |
15 | And he condemned the Liberal Democrats for refusing to accept the need for minimum wages . |
16 | ‘ Bobby was the people 's captain and was extremely proud to lead his club and country and he achieved the ultimate goal of raising the World Cup in the summer of 1966 . |
17 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |
18 | Gaunt was determined to defend Wycliffe , and he ordered the new Marshal , Henry Percy , to arrest anyone who opposed his heterodox protégé . |
19 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
20 | Georgia 's President Zviad Gamsakhurdia continued to warn of the prospect of Gorbachev attempting to impose presidential rule , and he told the Georgian Supreme Soviet on Feb. 27 that he believed that Gorbachev was preparing to detach South Ossetia and the other troubled enclave of Abkhazia from Georgia if the republic persisted in refusing to sign the new Union Treaty . |
21 | Close by , at SPY HILL , pentices were remembered by the late Mr Armer , who was a neighbour , and he told the present owner of his recollections . |
22 | ‘ The old man was a damn good listener when it suited him and he knew the right questions . |
23 | His was the first correct solution selected and he knew the Premier League teams who have not played in European competitions are Crystal Palace , Wimbledon , Oldham , Norwich , Sheffield United , Middlesbrough and Blackburn . |
24 | There had been unsuccessful attempts even further south ; the unfortunate Raleigh got himself out of the Tower by promising to find James 1 a supply of gold in Guiana , but he found no gold and he irritated the Spanish so much that they pushed James into having him executed in 1618 on the 1604 charge of treason . |
25 | The sight of Fred and Daisy after the first night added to his nerve , and he scooped the skeletal Peaseblossom out of a dressing-room full of tulle to take her out to dinner with them . |
26 | He added : ‘ James was truly outstanding and he represented the archetypal British sportsman . ’ |
27 | Somehow that triggered the Doctor , and he interrupted the old man . |
28 | And he resurrected the symbolic pattern she had found in him , the amber , the velvet , the musk and acceptance . |
29 | This one was done for driving without due care and attention and he got the maximum fine . |
30 | Tshwete was a supporter of rugby unification and he got the old South African Rugby Football Board and the South African Rugby Union together at the conference table ’ , said French . |