Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E looked like an Italian but 'e did n't speak like they do . |
| 2 | The man next to him winked in a fast act of conspiracy , a runner bean of a man who then extended his hand to Holly and their fists gripped in a distant greeting , but there were no words . |
| 3 | In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months . |
| 4 | When Albert missed the child most urgently , the refusal of money for him seemed like a moral tactic to take him away forever . |
| 5 | From the corner of my eye I see Walter return and realise with a start that the person accompanying him enswathed in a black bournous is Marianne . |
| 6 | Part of him hankered after the poetic Victorian times when women died in childbirth at twenty leaving their partner free to get another young girl . |
| 7 | He made for the central entrance to the choir under the organ and almost collided with Dhani , who giggled . |
| 8 | Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door . |
| 9 | While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible . |
| 10 | One of the ways in which Upper Palaeolithic man differed from his predecessors lay in the use he made of the skeletal structures of his food animals . |
| 11 | Whilst I would commend you to study the German Staff Paper in its entirety , I would also draw your attention to its personal citation of AVM Bennett , and note the dateline March — 1944 : " This 35-year-old Australian — known as one of the most resourceful officers in the RAF — had distinguished himself as long ago as 1938 by a record long-range flight to South Africa … an example of his personal operational capabilities … may be cited in the attack which he made of the German Fleet base at Trondheim . " |
| 12 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 13 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 14 | Mr Larkin is haunted by memories of a visit he made to the secluded woods at along with Marie Pettitt , Gary 's mother . |
| 15 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 16 | Gouzenko 's involvement in the allegations against Sir Roger Hollis was the result of statements he made during the lengthy debriefing following his defection when he claimed there were two Russian spies both with the codename Elli . |
| 17 | I mean he saw he sh great pace was shown then it was a nothingy ball that he made into a good situation . |
| 18 | She could n't relax ; she could hear every move he made through the flimsy wall , and each one stretched her nerves tight . |
| 19 | He was saved from sinking even lower by the balm of a journey he made in an open cart to Zweeloo with his landlord , who had to go to the market in Assen . |
| 20 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 21 | Everything else might be changed by the demands of story and of ratiocination — there are clear differences , for instance , between the accounts of that scene in the 1925 poem ‘ Light as Leaf on Lindentree ’ and in Aragorn 's song on Weathertop — but to the vision itself he remained true , working out from it as from the detailed paintings of Lake Mithrim , Nargothrond , Gondolin , etc. , which he made in the 1920s ( see Pictures 32–6 ) . |
| 22 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 23 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 24 | He pounced in the 30th minute , rifling home a super shot from 20 yards in the twinkling of an eye . |
| 25 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |
| 26 | They went to the pub with Air Marshal 's ranking chalked on their uniforms , windows were smashed to prove that broken glass need not draw blood , there were tremendous fights , he lived at the local hall , there was game , there were bounties we never saw in London — he sailed very very close to the law during that period . ’ |
| 27 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 28 | And if he lived on the other side of the world she would think nothing of flying to meet him , she said . |
| 29 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 30 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |