Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather took to Bunny , but it was obvious the stage-manager was a crony of Potter 's and it was advisable , this early on , to leave well alone . |
| 2 | He rather thought of Kate as a country person . |
| 3 | We still refer to certain compounds as being ‘ hermetically sealed ’ , in reference to the touch of his magic caduceus which he latterly bestowed upon AESCULAPIUS , the god of healing . |
| 4 | Mr Ward was arrested by the FBI in Washington on Thursday and charged with Theft Act offences relating to the £5.2m he secretly received from Guinness through an obscure offshore nominee company in May 1986 . |
| 5 | Well my my mother had five children with her previous husband and my father met my mother while this fella was ill and he eventually died with T B and my father married my mother and took on these five children i in , in South Wales . |
| 6 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |
| 7 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 8 | He eventually settled in Paris and died at the early age of 45 , in 1792 . |
| 9 | Taking precipitously to his heels and hurriedly joining the Coldstream Guards , he eventually settled in East Anglia , where he married and where his literary son George was born in 1803 . |
| 10 | He eventually moved to Berlin , where he changed his name to Reuter . |
| 11 | He eventually flew to Europe , nervous and not knowing what to expect . |
| 12 | And , famously this time , he successfully campaigned for Mr Fallon who won the Darlington seat with a 3,437 majority . |
| 13 | The practice of blood-letting , associated with the Galenic theory that disease arose from an imbalance of the four humors. he duly rejected in favor of specific chemical remedies . |
| 14 | He was clearly far more remote from the succession than William III , or at least his wife , had been but he was a Protestant and he duly landed at Greenwich on 18 September 1714 , with two mistresses in tow , both very plain . |
| 15 | Accordingly , he was granted and Empire title challenge in 1931 at Leicester where he duly disposed of England 's Phil Scott in under two rounds . |
| 16 | The Leeds boss pointed the midfielder back on and had to be restrained by reserve official Brian Hill as he furiously remonstrated with referee Joe Worrall . |
| 17 | I brought my heel down on his instep , and then caught his forehead with my knee as he instinctively doubled with pain . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 19 | ‘ Last year he mostly caddied for Lars Persson , who finished around twenty-fifth in the Order of Merit and so he probably made less than five thousand pounds . |
| 20 | He provided Gordon with excellent feedback from the track and by now he rarely got into trouble on the circuit . |
| 21 | He rarely wondered about others ' lives except where they touched his ; his mind was perpetually occupied with his own concerns . |
| 22 | He especially thanked for years of hard work , and this was received with strong acclamation . |
| 23 | The suburbs he especially had in mind were the opulent , tree-lined jobs of Victorian England . |
| 24 | He obviously knew about David Harland , but why did that make him so cross ? |
| 25 | What he obviously had in mind was the manoeuvre carried out by horsemen displaying their skill at a gymkhana . |
| 26 | It was on cine-variety lines and as the producer was Francis Mangon , he naturally brought over Ethel Helliwell to choreograph for him . |
| 27 | He began pony racing and as his father actively encouraged him , he naturally progressed to horses and by coincidence landed his first winner on his first ride — Final Assault on the Flat at Naas in March 1983 . |
| 28 | With this ghastly thought in mind , he gently suggested to Sheila that they walk over to a nice patch of grass at the base of the earth bank . |
| 29 | In order to escape payment Beamish fled the country and he only returned to Britain at irregular intervals from then on . |
| 30 | He only returned in November last year when he ran sixth behind Gold Options , appropriately enough at Punchestown . |