Example sentences of "[subord] he [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although there is no indication of the source of 10 marks payable to Roger Blomfeld of Buxton , Norfolk ( where he also owned land worth 13s. 4d. ) , the £1. 9s. 8d. assigned to Thomas Parker , a servant of the king at Elmley Lovett , Worcs. , could well have been a payment from the manor , which was a royal estate , and Parker himself did not live there . |
| 2 | In 1850 , as a newly appointed house surgeon to St George 's Hospital ( where he later became lecturer in anatomy ) he presented a paper to the Royal Society ‘ On the development of the optic and auditory nerves ’ . |
| 3 | He joined the leisure and later the entertainments division , where he later became director , with responsibility for such venues as Talk of the Town , Belle Vue Zoo , Blackpool , Eastbourne and Yarmouth piers and a caravan park . |
| 4 | The article sent the leading RISC analyst Andrew Allison to his keyboard where he promptly made hash of its arguments . |
| 5 | Joseph met President Roosevelt in 1903 , and visited the Carlisle Indian School , Pennsylvania on his journey home , where he graciously met General Howard . |
| 6 | In 1692 he published a Pharmacologia , an early work on drugs and medicines , which showed his wide botanical knowledge and where he gratefully acknowledged help from Sloane , Ray , Sherard , Doody and Petiver . |
| 7 | And although he passionately rejected demands from radical Soviet reformers to abandon the party 's monopoly of power , at least at this moment , he insisted that only the most far-reaching changes could solve the Soviet economic crisis . |
| 8 | Despite himself he had been touched by her fierce defence of him , and although he frequently entertained Mrs Darrell he only did so because she was the widow of his dead friend . |
| 9 | Bowie is a close enough friend of Scorsese 's to have been given a storyboard of a fight scene in the director 's Raging Bull ( Bowie loves boxing ) although he intensely disliked Marty 's latest film , the box-office smash Cape Fear . |
| 10 | In his Life of Hooker Walton states that in the original lost manuscripts there was no mention of kings being accountable to the people ; and he relates how Charles I , in a discussion with the Parliamentary leader Lord Saye , refused to accept any arguments based on the last three books , because it was doubtful whether they were authentic , although he gladly accepted Hooker 's judgements in the first five . |
| 11 | The family was clearly influential , perhaps having been helped by his brother who was archbishop of Canterbury , and a third brother was an alderman , although he never became mayor . |
| 12 | But perhaps the best measure of Paul 's ability was that , although he never sought publicity or acclaim , he was voted Palace 's Player of Year for two consecutive seasons , both of which were spent in Division One , in 1979–80 and 1980–81 . |
| 13 | There was general agreement that , although he never led Surrey to the title , their placings of second , third , fourth , third and second between 1921 and 1925 were little short of miraculous given the glorious lopsidedness of the team — brilliant batting ( led by Hobbs ) totally unmatched by workaday bowling . |
| 14 | Although he always treated Richard Baxter with the utmost politeness and civility , he nevertheless refused to embrace the Gospel himself and kept his family and servants away from the meetings . |
| 15 | At the same time , although he much liked Maritain as a person ( as who could not ? ) , he felt that the French post-Bergsonian intellectual approach , even if called ‘ Neo-scholastique ’ , differed markedly from that of St Thomas himself : it was the difference between a hovering darting kestrel and a ‘ dumb ox ’ pawing the ground . |
| 16 | Although he publicly renounced Remy and repealed the law making Jamel his natural successor , he had always refused to allow Ngune 's men to touch them . |
| 17 | In his position as the British Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan announced , in July 1961 , that the British government wished to negotiate joining the Common Market , i.e. the European Economic Community , but the French President , de Gaulle , fearing that France would lose her position as the leader of the six member countries , was not keen on the British , entry , despite the agreement of the other five nations , The special relationship that Britain had with the U.S.A. was also disliked by de Gaulle and , in any event , the French government wanted special provisions to protect French agriculture , so he effectively blocked Britain 's entry into the E.E.C . |
| 18 | He saw Oliver running away , so he naturally thought Oliver was the thief . |
| 19 | However , he played far better yesterday and was heading for a 67 until he unexpectedly dropped shots at both the 16th and 17th . |
| 20 | If Colt knew , then he 'd be back , but it looks like he never made contact from the day he disappeared , so he wo n't know . |
| 21 | Preston needed an old friend , like he sometimes needed nursery food after a disappointment , or a hangover , and William was the only one left lined up against the wall . |
| 22 | If he later showed hostility to policies of the United States this was quite separate from his personal feelings about the American people . |
| 23 | ‘ They 'd get short shrift from him if he once laid hands on them . |
| 24 | She let him tell Gentle that if he ever saw hide or hair of Gentle in the building again he 'd have him arrested as an accomplice to attempted murder . |
| 25 | Jack had always been teetotal , since he was convinced that if he ever touched alcohol , he would become dependent . |
| 26 | If he ever left Everton now it would be for a modest fee . |
| 27 | I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace . |
| 28 | He knew that , if he ever told Creed the story of the radios , Creed would understand . |
| 29 | Hitler was fit only for the loony bin , his generals would kill him within five minutes if he ever declared war , and he only had one ball . |
| 30 | But then he knew he would n't , because he would be doing it for just that reason even if he really preferred tea with lemon . |