Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His claim to have loved Clare Mallender and to have had her stolen from him somehow lacked conviction and , anyway , his conquest of Virginia Dysart could be said to have evened the score . |
| 2 | If he was n't there , he rather feared Paul Lexington might have come to the end of his understudies . |
| 3 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 4 | Dexter decided he rather liked Jane Pargeter . |
| 5 | He rather liked Dr Lange . |
| 6 | He rather doubted Caroline 's story , but it was flattering that any woman should think she 'd had him . |
| 7 | Bowie is a close enough friend of Scorsese 's to have been given a storyboard of a fight scene in the director 's Raging Bull ( Bowie loves boxing ) although he intensely disliked Marty 's latest film , the box-office smash Cape Fear . |
| 8 | He expressly forbade men to call other leaders ‘ Father ’ . |
| 9 | Instead , thanks to Adolf Hitler , he was employed as military attaché at the British Embassy in Lisbon where he unofficially represented SOE . |
| 10 | In his Life of Hooker Walton states that in the original lost manuscripts there was no mention of kings being accountable to the people ; and he relates how Charles I , in a discussion with the Parliamentary leader Lord Saye , refused to accept any arguments based on the last three books , because it was doubtful whether they were authentic , although he gladly accepted Hooker 's judgements in the first five . |
| 11 | The government insisted this was the reason he secretly contacted Castro to mediate a solution that would save him from the drug dealers ' retribution . |
| 12 | He secretly visited Singapore and on return to Hong Kong was again arrested . |
| 13 | He vigorously applied Charles 's policy of raising money by reviving the ancient Forest administration . |
| 14 | He vigorously defended astrology in a sermon ( later published as Signa Coeli : The Signs of Heaven , 1652 ) preached the day before the notorious ‘ Black Monday ’ , the solar eclipse of 29 March 1652 . |
| 15 | Belfast councillor John Carson has been reported to his North Belfast Unionist Constituency Association over allegations that he verbally assaulted party member Fred Proctor . |
| 16 | He eventually rejoined Brighton on a free transfer — and last night , at last , he enjoyed a taste of the good life . |
| 17 | Neither the man nor his union could have pursued the case alone , but thanks to the insurance he eventually collected £22,500 compensation . |
| 18 | When he eventually succeeded Nixon , Ford immediately made reassuring noises to his former colleagues in the legislature . |
| 19 | With the help of several Frenchmen he eventually reached Spain , but this neutral country 's police handed him back to the Gestapo . |
| 20 | He eventually offered Richard £10 more than the asking price . |
| 21 | He eventually became Queen 's Counsel and magistrate despite ‘ an eccentric manner ’ and beliefs that included opposition to drink and tobacco and advocacy of votes for women ( the latter provoking ‘ considerable amusement ’ during his four unsuccessful attempts to become MP for Aylesbury ) . |
| 22 | Commissioned as an administrative officer , he eventually became adjutant to the commander of the tactical air force , based at Larisa in central Greece , and made a point of being around whenever any representatives of civil suppliers appeared at headquarters to make presentations . |
| 23 | His meeting with those he eventually took hostage in San José was reported as being part of his negotiation with the Honduran government , mediated by Fishman , over the return of two Hondurans who had " disappeared " eight years previously . |
| 24 | He eventually found solace in religion . |
| 25 | His empire was badly shaken by the October 1987 worldwide stock market crash [ see pp. 37540-41 , and he eventually lost control of the Bell Group to fellow Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond . |
| 26 | He eventually lost interest . |
| 27 | Perhaps inevitably , he eventually contracted typhus at Kherson , in the Crimea , in January 1790 and was dead within a few days . |
| 28 | For 12 years from 1962 he successfully fed Edgar Hoover at the FBI a mixture of tantalising bits of fact and rubbish , including false information about Russia 's space-rocket programme which led the Americans to think they were ahead of the Russians . |
| 29 | He successfully persuaded RTE the Irish State-run broadcasting network the event should go ahead in his home town almost 200 miles from Dublin rather than in the capital city . |
| 30 | He successfully defended rowing as an Olympic sport and in 1976 introduced women 's events , which have now expanded to six classes . |