Example sentences of "he [vb past] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was plenty of praise and some prizes for Ben when he became the All British Champ . |
| 2 | This remained only a vague idea until he read the same Soviet paper from the 1970s as Chatterjee had seen and which dealt with the abundance of helium-3 and helium-4 in minerals . |
| 3 | He used the same foul language and coarse expressions the big Glaswegian would have used and , of course , McEllhoney laughed and made the expected ribald comment . |
| 4 | Very likely he used the same precise manner ; she could n't imagine him doing otherwise . |
| 5 | It seems that the potential of this new method was not realized in petrology for another forty years , for the first printed account did not appear until 1831 , in H. T. M. Witham 's Observations on Fossil Vegetables , when he published an account of how he prepared the many thin slices of fossil wood of which a microscopical description is furnished in the text . |
| 6 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 7 | He showed the same scant respect for other agents of central power . |
| 8 | He exposed the many devious ways in which Governments bent the rules of free trade in their favour , while flying the free trade banner . |
| 9 | Clayson avoids sycophancy , recounting , for instance , the time when George reacted to news of Brian Jones ' death with the comment , ‘ I do n't think Brian had enough love or understanding ’ , and the fact he ‘ just went back to sleep actually ’ when he heard the same new about John Lennon . |
| 10 | Clayson avoids sycophancy , recounting , for instance , the time when George reacted to news of Brian Jones ' death with the comment , ‘ I do n't think Brian had enough love or understanding ’ , and the fact he ‘ just went back to sleep actually ’ when he heard the same new about John Lennon . |
| 11 | But he soon forgot his discomfort when he examined the many interesting rocks . |
| 12 | He wore the same black clothes — baggy corduroys , heavy sweater , working-man 's jacket — that he had worn through the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 13 | He wore the same khaki overalls as we all did , but he had a major 's crown on each shoulder . |
| 14 | He wore the same sombre clothes as Lever , a wine red pau that made them seem more like clerks than the heirs to great Companies . |
| 15 | But he gave the all clear after testing most of the track in the post lunch stroll . |
| 16 | Nails , now a connoisseur of horses , looked critically at Midnight and saw that he possessed the same nervous temperament as Lucky Lady Firelight , and was pleased . |
| 17 | Even Frank Sinatra said that Darin would be his successor — he had the same tremendous phrasing — although death cheated him of that . |
| 18 | He had the same flat back to his head and angularity of neck , and his walk was tense and silent . |
| 19 | ‘ He had the same smarmy patter . |
| 20 | and a he had the same unyielding attitude to life that Germans would have and a very bad temper . |
| 21 | Contemporary miniatures show that Dara bore a striking resemblance to his father ; he had the same deep-set almond eyes , the same straight , narrow nose and long , full beard , although in some pictures he appears to have been slightly darker and more petite than Shah Jehan . |
| 22 | He said the former Yugoslav republic could become a ‘ European Lebanon ’ and fighting would spread beyond its frontiers if Bosnia crumbled into separate ethnic mini-states . |
| 23 | I should have been able to give him something to hope for , " he thought with a sigh , as he descended the half dozen stairs and went to kneel beside Miriam on the stone flags . |