Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely wondered about others ' lives except where they touched his ; his mind was perpetually occupied with his own concerns . |
| 2 | He especially thanked for years of hard work , and this was received with strong acclamation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was nothing if not patriotic — that is , he only drank at pubs called the Queen 's Head or Arms . |
| 5 | He was potentially a useful ally and one with whom Edward needed to keep on good terms , if only because of his claim to the French throne ; but he proved unreliable and the expedition to Normandy was aborted when he suddenly came to terms with John II . |
| 6 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 7 | ‘ Nothing of importance , he just mumbled about shadows , shadows on the Kinghorn Ness . |
| 8 | When Michael saw the happy faces on Christmas Day , the food that seemed inexhaustible and the merriment his gifts had brought , he finally came to terms with himself . |
| 9 | He gave her his best smile , a greeting he normally reserved for waiters . |
| 10 | He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work . |
| 11 | In vacations he still went for interviews with his psychiatrist , who did not feel that he had quite got ‘ to the bottom of things ’ . |
| 12 | In retirement he still worked with horses at his home near Tewkesbury … signed on as Central 's racing tipster … and no national hunt gathering was complete without Terry Biddlecombe … |
| 13 | He still complained of headaches . ’ |
| 14 | Would he marry Clara Delluc , the least celebrated of his mistresses , and the one to whom he always returned after forays elsewhere ? |
| 15 | Peter seized the black document-wallet he always took to meetings . |
| 16 | And he always dressed in rags . |
| 17 | The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back . |
| 18 | Too shy ( and now , he smiled at the word shy ever applying to him ) to approach her directly in the way that he usually did with women he found attractive . |
| 19 | It should be noted , however , that he also protested against conditions at Newgate , particularly the presence of strangers in the chapel ‘ pointing & whispering , to ye Confusion of ye wretched Men to Dye ’ . |
| 20 | After the society refused his application he also failed in attempts to have his case taken up by the Building Societies Association and the insurance ombudsman . |
| 21 | He also looked for signs of abnormal radioactivity in the vicinity while seeking for the source of the heat and gas but nothing significant turned up . |
| 22 | A Romanian traveller arriving in Yugoslavia said he also heard of protests yesterday in the cities of Craiova and Suceava . |
| 23 | He also wrote under pseudonyms , most notably a novel , The Call of the Town ( 1904 ) , light reminiscences , and biographies of , among others , Arthur Mee and Sir J. M. Barrie [ qq.v . ] . |
| 24 | * He also asked for swabs for drying balls and replacement brushes be made at certain tees and that a brushwood boot scraper be provided ‘ as the present iron one was ‘ impossible ’ ’ . |
| 25 | He also called for prayers for both victims and perpetrators of violence . |
| 26 | He also called for sanctions against South Africa to be maintained . |
| 27 | He also called for measures to favour lower-paid employees in respect of income tax , and for measures to help small businesses . |
| 28 | He also referred to provisions in the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers , and to many other provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 and in the Companies Act 1985 which might conceivably have some bearing on this question . |
| 29 | He also stated in terms that can not be misunderstood that science is after all a human activity , dependent on human imagination to produce its hypotheses , absolutely incapable of describing the world absolutely , but setting itself merely the obligation of bouncing its ideas against reality . |
| 30 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |