Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He met Yves Saint Laurent , then at Dior , and helped him found his own fashion house . |
| 2 | With the coat-collar of his Burberry turned up , he reminded her of a private eye in a film — she was under surveillance , everything about him accentuated his detailed analysis of her appearance , and she felt a shiver at what it might portend . |
| 3 | A part-time soldier who was nearly killed when a grenade exploded just six feet from him celebrated his 50th birthday at home . |
| 4 | With him went his 15-year-old son , Richard Parkes Bonington , destined to become one of the greatest of all British painters . |
| 5 | I want us to thrash them just to see him shut his fat mouth — and then whinge about unfair treatment blah blah blah . |
| 6 | The thought of the Marlborough boys ‘ discovering ’ him gave him obvious pleasure ; and whether or not he believed that the curriculum should include modern literature ( as Auden was later to say that it should not ) , he certainly believed , with his own youthful experience in mind , that the young should be enabled to explore new fields in the arts for themselves . |
| 7 | As Endill ate his breakfast he felt a thousand eyes watch him put his cold piece of toast into his mouth and it sent shivers down his spine . |
| 8 | Behind him flitted his clerical assistant , pale Paola , her long colourless hair bound in a rubber band , her huge glasses moth-like , her finger-tips dusty grey pads . |
| 9 | trousers , boots , fucking the leggings , the gloves , the mask anything , he made me fucking walk into the sea . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not Superman , my dear , ’ he made her bruised chin immediately better with that warm-sounding ‘ my dear , ’ ‘ so what else could I do — and I own that I was n't thinking at all too clearly — but appeal to the pride I 'd seen in you ? ’ |
| 11 | He made himself some Ovaltine in the kitchen around ten-thirty p.m . |
| 12 | He made his greater mark as a cricket administrator . |
| 13 | In 1929 he made his first trip to Spain , where Toledo inspired him to achieve a greater breadth and expressiveness in his landscapes . |
| 14 | This new prodigy , already 36th on the provisional list after only three ranking events , started playing in his mother 's snooker club when he was nine ; at 13 he made his first century and at 16 his first 147 . |
| 15 | Then , the day before Latowa 's death , he made his first contact with ‘ Charlie ’ . |
| 16 | The former striker played under several big-name managers from the day he made his First Division debut as a raw teenager . |
| 17 | In the same year he made his first parachute jump from an airship . |
| 18 | After the 1979 season , Dave caddied for Michael King and Manuel Calero , then he made his first bid for the bag of Sandy Lyle . |
| 19 | Doherty was aghast 12 months ago when he made his first attempt to win the title and lost heavily to the unfancied Fergal O'Brien but this year he was determined to wipe out that memory and win his third title in a matter of months . |
| 20 | He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City . |
| 21 | He made his first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival two years ago with his much-acclaimed ‘ What If Dolphins Talk Shit Too ? ’ and this summer he returned to play eight sell-out nights at the Assembly Rooms ' main theatre ( sponsored not by some Australian lager but by Stella Artois ) . |
| 22 | In 1915 he made his first appearance at the German Opera House , Berlin . |
| 23 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 24 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 25 | He made his first visit to Vesuvius in 1831 , and published Sketches of Vesuvius , with Short Accounts of its Principal Eruptions in 1832 . |
| 26 | From France he went to the Alps and Italy , and in 1870–1 he made his first visit to America , where he may have encountered his father , as well as many unfamiliar trees and shrubs . |
| 27 | In 1876–7 he made his first visit to Japan and this confirmed his admiration for oriental design and inspired much of his best work , as well as a book , Japan : its Architecture , Art , and Art Manufactures ( 1882 ) . |
| 28 | The thin , handsome face , grey-eyed and intelligent , no longer struck attractive as he made his small talk . |
| 29 | He touched down at Upper Heyford right on schedule at 1.55 a.m. local time , disturbing the sleep of the villagers beneath him as he made his final turn into the approach lights . |
| 30 | It was a strange coincidence that he made his final sailing to America on the day that his closest friend , Mr Huddlestone , was buried . |