Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 2 | Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery . |
| 3 | You ca n't escape the noise in these thin little flats , so maybe he 's lying in bed , staring in the dark , listening to the personal stereo I told him fell off a lorry last Christmas , letting reggae drown the sound of grown-ups talking . |
| 4 | But him put up a fight . |
| 5 | This for him highlighted both the frightfulness of war and the ineptitude of the governing classes . |
| 6 | So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it . |
| 7 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 8 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 9 | When he asked the new tsar to give land to the peasants he made plain the other . |
| 10 | He made fast the rope round Trent 's neck to the handhold beside the companionway leading down to the head in the port hull . |
| 11 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 12 | He made out a case for dressing down rather than up . |
| 13 | To his left wing he made out a line of higher hills and headed for it . |
| 14 | On 4 July 1933 he made out an application to the Passport Office . |
| 15 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 16 | Allan said when he realised how the football disaster , which claimed 95 lives , had left his son . |
| 17 | In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum . |
| 18 | He laid down the letter at breakfast with a white face . |
| 19 | He anticipated the later work of Humphry Repton [ q.v. ] by creating flower gardens adjacent to the house , as at Sandon in 1781 , where he laid out a garden under the windows of the drawing-room , planted with flowers and flowering shrubs and with a central basin of water with goldfish . |
| 20 | He laid out a fiver — and went home counting the cash after Dowie scored twice . |
| 21 | At the same time , offering low rents to those who would agree to build in stone , he laid out a town which after seven years had a population of 25,000 , served by a free port . |
| 22 | He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering . |
| 23 | He laid out the argument : the Mirror had gone to Maxwell and dived downmarket , along with its Sunday counterpart ; the Mail on Sunday was repositioning itself after its disastrous launch , but had still not recovered . |
| 24 | There is a deep aviation history in the Red Lake area , Romeo Vachon is credited with the first flight into Red Lake in 1924 , when he checked out a fire for Ontario Provincial Air Service . |
| 25 | No one was really surprised when he checked out a week later after an argument about drinking beer in his room . |
| 26 | He plunged up the embankment , taking a grateful breath of fresh air , then turned and extended a large imperative hand to Catherine Crane and pulled her up beside him . |
| 27 | Without waiting for the others he plunged down the bank into the stream , slipping and slithering heedlessly over the protruding roots and rocks . |
| 28 | But with 15 minutes left Dyer gave the visitors some hope when he chested down a cross and struck a strong shot past Muggleton from close range . |
| 29 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 30 | He ruled out an alliance with either the FLN or the FIS for the second round . |