Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie looked at him with interest and he nodded , seeing he had her complete attention . |
| 2 | Allison will be assisting manager Denis Rofe on a consultancy basis from later this week , returning to the Twerton Park ground where he began his managerial career 29 years ago with Bath City . |
| 3 | George , who had two sisters and a brother , attended a private day-school in Eltham and at the age of thirteen entered the Royal Arsenal , where he continued his basic education whilst gaining valuable practical experience . |
| 4 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 5 | He never brought his friends to the house and she had never known where he spent his spare time . |
| 6 | With this he faced the world , soon gravitating to Soho and the French pub , where he spent his last pennies . |
| 7 | Nervously he ran through the palace to the room , where he kept his magic lamp — rubbing furiously , he summoned the genie ! |
| 8 | He eventually joined the Ed Dubois design office where he met his current business partner Richard Lovett while they were working on two Admiral 's Cup yachts , Formidable and Promotion in 1982/83 . |
| 9 | He had been the one to persuade her brother , an alcoholic and addict , to flee New Orleans for the sobriety of the Midwest , where he kicked his bad habit . |
| 10 | Hendry , who defeated James Wattana 9-5 , captured snooker 's biggest prize of the season so far , a cheque for £110,000 , as well as being given the gold-plated trophy as a memento of his outstanding record at the London venue , where he stretched his unbeaten record to 20 successive victories . |
| 11 | He was a choirboy at St Paul 's Cathedral , where he had his first starring role , leading a processional , picked to do so , he believed , ‘ because I looked such a cherub ’ . |
| 12 | In his first 13 tournaments — up until the Swiss Open — he had only slipped over par in one event — the French Open where he missed his only cut — and he had seven top-10 finishes . |
| 13 | Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) . |
| 14 | A wealthy and handsome ‘ man of many parts ’ , he owned considerable property in Funchal and designed his own town house ( the large house , with a tower , which the Madeira Wine Institute now occupies ) and his favourite country residence , Quinta do Jardim da Serra , where he built his own mausoleum and was buried . |
| 15 | This season his form was confirmed , appropriately enough , against Neath at the Gnoll , where he demonstrated his main assets of speed off the mark and eye for an opening . |
| 16 | Almost a whole generation knew him as Curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum in London ( 1945–84 ) , where he maintained its distinctive , old-fashioned atmosphere throughout his tenure and on Saturday afternoons himself guided visitors around . |
| 17 | However , it is as an active patron of architecture that Hope is best known , where he used his immense wealth to provide the tangible realization of his Gothic aspirations . |
| 18 | He was educated at Cardiff Intermediate ( later High ) School , where he showed his academic paces , winning four distinctions in the senior honours certificate of the Central Welsh Board at seventeen . |
| 19 | If Leland had gone there , he might well have described the eastern Weald as he did the Forest of Dean : ‘ more fruitful of wood and grass than corn ’ with ‘ many iron mines and forges ’ ; yet although he judged it self-sufficient in corn , Dean was very much poorer than the Weald . |
| 20 | When darkness came he ventured out , selecting a large potato — which tasted awful although he ate it all . |
| 21 | Like Cantona , Wright was also a spectator , although he had his full kit on . |
| 22 | Although he spent his early career teaching , including seven years as a headmaster , he moved into management consultancy work at the beginning of the 1960s , using a variety of selection firms on behalf of his clients . |
| 23 | Prison had been too good for him and although he declared himself innocent of any crime , he was most certainly guilty of fecklessness , leaving important matters of finance in the hands of his greedy younger brother . |
| 24 | One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur . |
| 25 | He had never liked Marler , although he recognized his great ability . |
| 26 | Yep it was against Chelsea or Arse , although he commited his fair share of blunders he was supposed to be ( I was around when he was ) a decent keeper . |
| 27 | He did n't let it affect him for too long , although he put his second into the bunker at the 10th . |
| 28 | Although he broke his regular Saturday habit and failed to score , two of Hughie 's former Bellshill school friends , Alex James and Alex Jackson , scored five goals in a breathtaking display of unfettered football , magically achieved by a forward line of five irrepressible midgets who will be forever etched in the history of Scottish football as ‘ The Wembley Wizards ’ . |
| 29 | He wanted what I wanted and it was n't love or commitment or really even friendship ( although he called it that ) . |
| 30 | Rhoda Brocklebank had a part too , although he found it hard to give it a name . |