Example sentences of "he [vb past] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked . |
| 2 | David Icke insists he made no such claim , and blames the media for turning him into a laughing-stock . |
| 3 | He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca . |
| 4 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 5 | To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage . |
| 6 | As each door opened to him , he made the same statement . |
| 7 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 8 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 9 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
| 10 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
| 11 | Cooper was trained as an art historian and he applied the same methodology and rigorous scholarship to his chosen artists as earlier generations had to the Old Masters . |
| 12 | To receive Sainteny he asked the former emperor Bao Dai to stand with him and endorse the agreement . |
| 13 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 14 | As a result , he got the same response as he had received at Munich : ‘ Sorry , no vacancies ’ . |
| 15 | Later in the year he conveyed the same message to the visiting American Under-Secretary of State , George Ball . |
| 16 | But this in essence is just what Pooh did when he inferred the same belief about honey from his direct observation of bees . |
| 17 | Again he found the same link between unemployment and mortality . |
| 18 | The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes . |
| 19 | Everywhere he found the same thing : elderly employees , attempting to run things as they thought the old baron would have wanted , out of touch with new ideas , fearful of taking any decision on their own , and consequently stalling , allowing problems to build up . |
| 20 | Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide . |
| 21 | Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 22 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 23 | He used the same technique as when looking for a lost golf ball and took a line on a large house on the Ramsgate front . |
| 24 | He used the same language as that employed by the Chinese government to explain away the unrest that the democracy movement unleashed in May and June — namely that it was the work of a ‘ handful of evil-doers ’ . |
| 25 | But then Carver had heard that on other occasions he used the same language about Galvone . |
| 26 | Face it , he used the same joke on everybody . |
| 27 | He used the same line with his mother ; for once he did n't give her the real reason . |
| 28 | He quickly got a corn broom , went out to the back porch again and brushed his footwear clean ; then he used the same broom to sweep the snow from the kitchen floor into a safe hiding-place under a scatter rug . |
| 29 | He stopped a little way away , and so did I. He 'd obviously got some plan . |
| 30 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |