Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sgt Alan Jones made his defiant vow as the man who gunned him down began a 15-year sentence . |
| 2 | Haavikko closed the door behind him then gave a small shudder , staring at the tiny slip of plastic in his hand . |
| 3 | There were times , though , when he rather hoped a working-class bloke would take a shine to his wife and beat the hell out of her . |
| 4 | But lucky Craig Harris escaped with bruises and minor burns after being thrown into the air as he accidently touched a live wire attached to overhead power cables . |
| 5 | He eventually formed a religious group , the Royal Church of Nagriamel , before declaring a provisional government on Espiritu Santo on May 29 , 1980 , the eve of Vanuatu 's independence . |
| 6 | On his father 's death in 1621 he was adopted by his uncle John Browne , a merchant tailor , from whom he eventually inherited a substantial fortune . |
| 7 | Meanwhile in 1772 the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew engaged its first professional plant collector , Francis Masson , and packed him off to South Africa from where he duly introduced a great number of exotic plants , at least two of which , Zantedeschia erathiopica and Amaryllis belladonna , are still grown in Trust gardens in warmer areas to this day . |
| 8 | " Thank you , " I said confidently , and glared at the man when he discreetly placed a huge jug of iced water at my elbow . |
| 9 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 10 | Next day , when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields , he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance ; and when the rioters ' work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes : ‘ That 's pretty well , gentlemen , for one day ; I hope you will now go to your own homes . ’ |
| 11 | But Neath are backing the player 's insistence that he merely took a cold remedy . |
| 12 | In any event he had little time to give careful immediate consideration to the letter ; he merely wrote a short reply pressing Balfour to reconsider his position . |
| 13 | But his reaction was difficult to define because he merely gave a small shrug and , taking Lucy 's hand , he led her back along the path , where the darkness continued to be broken by the moon 's rays filtering through the trees . |
| 14 | He obviously had a detailed account of the origins of Rome . |
| 15 | He obviously found a ready-made son too . ’ |
| 16 | A juror asked what the comforts were , for he only saw a little straw in the corner of the room , the windows of which were broken . |
| 17 | The church warden gave me sizes but did not ask for reproduction pieces and anyway , he only had a poor and partial photograph . |
| 18 | He only had a little bit , but they put him away for three years . |
| 19 | Here at the scene of the crime he only made a preliminary examination . |
| 20 | As a result , he necessarily developed a new self-image , and took on a new social personality in the process . |
| 21 | He rightly defined a potential market for Tudor-style post-and-beam homes full of nooks and crannies and launched the Heritage range at the 1981 Homeworld Exhibition in Milton Keynes . |
| 22 | But then , as she stood stiff and resisting in his arms , he suddenly applied a gentle pressure , and all at once she was against his chest . |
| 23 | She told herself firmly that he did not suspect a thing , but he suddenly slanted a brilliant glance across at her and she was n't at all sure what he thought . |
| 24 | As he prepared to take full advantage of the situation he suddenly recalled a horrible memory . |
| 25 | He suddenly dropped a quick kiss on her startled lips and then bounded off up the stairs , and Jenna was left with his briefcase in her hand , her expression stunned . |
| 26 | when he suddenly heard a strange sound ; |
| 27 | His mind reeling with the difficult mathematical equations , he suddenly heard a soft knocking at the door . |
| 28 | He bewildered his audience for a moment , and then moved them , when he suddenly turned a political invective about government 's neglect of the environment into a lament that one of the sad losses was going to be the poetry of the countryside , the pastorals of a Vergil or a Theocritus . |
| 29 | So the head of a major I ca n't think of the guy 's name and he just had a major acquisition and this guy was |
| 30 | He just took a calculated risk on the spur of the moment . |