Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was saved from sinking even lower by the balm of a journey he made in an open cart to Zweeloo with his landlord , who had to go to the market in Assen . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone in television told me he lived in an ordinary flat by the Park , with nothing but a secret service man lurking in the lobby . ’ |
| 3 | A Russian Jew , he lived in an elegant and beautifully ordered apartment , No. 112 Boulevard Malesherbes , his drawings all catalogued and filed in cabinets . |
| 4 | True to form , he attacked at an unexpected moment . |
| 5 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |
| 6 | Instead of employing the skills for which he is well paid , he passed to an offside Mo Johnston . |
| 7 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 8 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 9 | He rode through an ancient forest alone . |
| 10 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 11 | He asked for an Irish song of love and loss . |
| 12 | He asked for an urgent meeting with Colonel Easterhouse . |
| 13 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope … you do n't mind a man … leaning on you , ’ he asked with an innocent smile . |
| 15 | Whatever it was , Liam 's throat must have been bothering him something terrible for he got through an awful lot of the stuff that night . |
| 16 | He gazed at an ineffable , agonizing radiance which only he could perceive , banishing whatever throwback emotions the brew had triggered . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell me about your acting career , ’ he invited with an abrupt change of topic as if to say the matter of the earrings was forgotten , though she knew it was n't . |
| 18 | It had not been contended in the course of the case that there was not a sale , until during the debate in your Lordships ' House that suggestion was made , and I think that , beyond doubt , anyone , who in answer to the advertisement acquired a record , would say that he had bought it and would be surprised that any doubt should be cast upon what he regarded as an obvious fact . |
| 19 | Hayman had implicit trust in his hit-men , especially against someone he regarded as an old , rusty , washed-up veteran . |
| 20 | He moved to an independent helicopter operator in Dubai and had cause to visit Egypt to inspect some Bell 212s for sale . |
| 21 | At the Pessarane Behesht camp the young man had been known as Matchsticks because he was very tall and thin , with long monkey arms which he moved in an uncoordinated fashion that amused his comrades . |
| 22 | This explains why Mr. Llewellyn-Jones , for the defendant , sought to persuade your Lordships that the power to order the board to pay the defendant 's costs under section 18 was not limited to the costs he incurred as an unassisted party but extended to the whole costs of the proceedings . |
| 23 | Former Z-Cars and Softly Softly star Frank Windsor starred in and as Headmaster , written by John Challen and featuring characters he created for an earlier Play for Today slot . |
| 24 | He referred to an Old Testament story in which King David , regarded by the Jews as their greatest king , had broken the law when it was necessary to feed his retreating and hungry troops . |
| 25 | He referred to an old paper that is regularly recycled by one of the unions . |
| 26 | Over the past decade , the care of that group has been privatised : the hon. Member for Macclesfield illustrated the process very clearly when he referred to an excellent nursing home in his constituency , a fairly large institution containing trained nurses . |
| 27 | Mr Patrick O'Hara , spokesperson for the Ecological Study Group , claimed that the marsh land , which he described as an important area for wildlife containing 31 species of waders and wildfowl including some rare species , was zoned for industry in the council 's draft development plan . |
| 28 | Norman Lamont welcomed the plans , which he described as an important step forward . |
| 29 | Farah Aydid told a United States journalist in early December that it was his aim to " capture Mahdi " , whom he described in an International Herald Tribune report of Dec. 10 as more corrupt and dictatorial than former President Siyad Barre . |
| 30 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |