Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mature scholarship to Oxford followed , where he acquired more refined snobberies than those afforded by the community of insurance clerks . |
| 2 | He subsequently went to law school and became a patent attorney , where he noticed how difficult and expensive it was to make copies of documents . |
| 3 | In 1875 Tosti made his first visit to London , and after this returned every year to the city , where he became very popular in fashionable circles . |
| 4 | For a while he was in financial difficulties , but by 1801 , after Paul 's assassination , he was working again at Tsarskoe Selo for the dowager empress and in 1802 Alexander I , the new emperor , appointed him architect-in-chief to the Admiralty , where he carried out minor works . |
| 5 | She was free to go as close to the man 's music as she dared , to stare as long as she wanted , to dance on the kerb right beside him where he seemed so tall he almost blacked out the sky , and the music so overwhelming you could hear nothing else . |
| 6 | Shortly before his fifteenth birthday he began boxing professionally as ‘ Kid ’ Lewis at the Judaean Club , Whitechapel , where he had nearly fifty contests , and when Premierland opened he boxed there thirty-five times in 1912 . |
| 7 | Where he comes seriously adrift , however , is in tackling the practical and ethical issues that arise from this uniquely far-reaching area of research . |
| 8 | The headaches , which in Italy had been tolerable when eased by a siesta or a day or two 's absence from the office , or the circolo , where he picked up most of his cases , had become unbearable in New York . |
| 9 | Nijinksy was then retired to stud at Claiborne Farm , Kentucky , where he proved equally brilliant as a stallion , siring such good horses as Golden Fleece , Ile de Bourbon , Shadeed , and in 1986 , he completed the Kentucky Derby/Epsom Derby double with Ferdinand and Shahrastani . |
| 10 | Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians . |
| 11 | There is a strong sense that he is not unaffected by his experiences , and emerges as a slightly different character at the end of the play , where he appears more direct and less polite . |
| 12 | The father allegedly admitted the abuse during therapy at the Gracewell Clinic where he completed only half the programme . |
| 13 | ‘ I could phone him with a problem and he had such insight that he could steer me through it , although he knew very little of the problems over here . ’ |
| 14 | Nigel also told every journalist proudly that he was ‘ married with one son ’ , although he made damn sure they did n't interview him at home , where they might meet his wife , or worse still , her friends . |
| 15 | Although he died comparatively young , around five years old , he had sired some excellent dogs who were used extensively at stud . |
| 16 | Although he died around 1307 , his memory is preserved on the Langtoft Cross which was erected by the last Sir Tatton Sykes of Sledmere on the small green at the southern end of the village . |
| 17 | On his site check our instructor found he was severely affected by reduced ‘ g ’ , although he had about 60 hours ' solo gliding . |
| 18 | It is rich for the hon. Member for Dagenham to claim that he is worried about the complexity of our proposal ; that from the hon. Gentleman who suggests that there should be property valuations on four different bases and annual rolling revaluations on a banded basis — although he keeps rather quiet about it . |
| 19 | Mary thought she liked this boy , although he seemed so strange . |
| 20 | This is the remark of an understandably anxious man , but one friend has observed that although he seemed as concerned as anyone about the advent of war he still retained his " detachment of spirit " . |
| 21 | Hotelling was a leading mathematical economist and statistician and , although he published very few papers in economic theory , his contributions to spatial economics , the economics of exhaustible resources , demand theory , utility theory , the analysis of the incidence of taxation , and welfare economics each assumed the stature of classics in his own lifetime . |
| 22 | How that might change his nature , there 's the question ’ mean that he is determined to become emperor , and if he did , he may well become a tyrant and abuse his power , although he seems very noble at the moment . |
| 23 | No sooner had de Gaulle ended the Algerian nightmare and registered his political triumphs in late 1962 than he became morbidly apprehensive of such a national relapse . |
| 24 | He thought he 'd got too much club for his second shot on the 17th , and he did n't hit it all that hard — a 5-iron — so he came up short of the green , after being in the left-hand semi-rough . |
| 25 | He missed a step so he went down two instead of one . |
| 26 | When Khrushchev visited President Eisenhower in the United States of America , the Chinese authorities became furious , and denounced Khrushchev , so he cut off all military and economic aid to China , although he continued to support the Communist leader of Cuba , Fidel Castro . |
| 27 | He has said he lost something like £15,000 in potential earnings as a freelance builder and an injury suffered in the tournament has meant that he is unable to work — so he loses out both ways . |
| 28 | Everything gets registered by Mr Sorley so he knows how much work we 've done and how much to bill the clients . |
| 29 | He , say , needs a new roof on his house , so he checks how much he has in his account , gets a roofer to do the job , and writes him a cheque in pints . |
| 30 | He then asked to speak to me , but I was on the phone so he rang back five minutes later . |