Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot .
2 Steve Raper ( Punyettas ) had a 4 lb bream in the first ten minutes opposite the bungalows and continued on the feeder with caster for roach that lifted him to 11–10–0 .
3 Today we can admire the determination that drove him across dangerous seas to find the ‘ New World ’ .
4 Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew .
5 The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton .
6 What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ?
7 For the ‘ Banality ’ show , Koons created a startling series of ads that showed him in four flagrantly artificial settings .
8 So far as Pitt was concerned , America came first , but he was as delighted as anyone when the English force protecting Hanover won a distinct success against France at Minden , which might have been decisive if Lord George Sackville had not disobeyed an order to charge in a way that exposed him to conspicuous , though not permanent , disgrace .
9 But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside .
10 And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 .
11 His round was made around a run of five 3s from the second to the sixth holes — that brought him to two under for the championship .
12 Now he staggered towards Holly , making a path between the tables and benches and the backs of sitting men that flanked him on one side , and the waiting line on the other .
13 He was always happy to help her keep her hair beautiful , even when it was time to use the greenish-brown powder that reminded him of warm cow-dung when she mixed it with water .
14 He tells interviewer Melvyn Bragg in Sunday 's South Bank Show that acting was a therapy that saved him from self-destruction .
15 He had a kind of inbuilt guilt that saved him from most affairs , but also occasionally made a fool of him .
16 Forsbrand came home in 30 for a 66 that put him on ten under par 134 but said : ‘ I 've never shot 29 for nine holes and I missed a four footer on the last . ’
17 Whereas Cipriani , in all his dealings , retained a high degree of honour , albeit confused , those that superseded him after 1938 , heralded in a period that is recognised by some as the nadir of political life in Trinidad .
18 Sheffield Wednesday 's player-manager watched his side claim a place in the last eight of the Coca-Cola Cup by destroying the club that sacked him in controversial circumstances .
19 Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity .
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