Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expressly forbade men to call other leaders ‘ Father ’ . |
| 2 | He rarely asked questions of them . |
| 3 | A tense , private man , he rarely gave interviews . |
| 4 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 5 | Given a choice , he much preferred knives to guns . |
| 6 | He obviously wanted aliens on the agenda of the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 7 | Thus John V of Portugal ( 1706–50 ) gave public audiences regularly twice a week at which he personally received petitions for the redress of grievances . |
| 8 | He instantaneously demolished years of careful Liberal/Alliance efforts to educate people to think in terms of ‘ balanced parliaments ’ and more representative government . |
| 9 | Andrew Hagans , who denies raping Mrs McGurk , says he only told police he did n't know her to protect her good name . |
| 10 | He only had minutes . |
| 11 | He only had eyes for Mary , especially as she immediately burst into tears . |
| 12 | But he could n't enlighten them : he only had orders to ‘ paint the place up a bit ’ . |
| 13 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 14 | He only had charts for western Russia , primarily Moscow and St Petersburg . |
| 15 | Cos he only got sandwiches . |
| 16 | He only used spanners and gauges , scorning the runes or litanies which all other techs deemed so essential to woo the spirit of a machine . |
| 17 | But he so impressed bosses they asked him to apply for the more senior post of general marketing director . |
| 18 | The night was still but a mist was descending slowly ; he stood looking towards platforms 2 and I when he suddenly heard footsteps on the ballast approaching him . |
| 19 | In addition , work on Sri Ramana can help to illuminate many of the " inwardness " — exercises suggested by the experiential approach to RE , for he constantly advised devotees to meditate on the question " Who am I ? " |
| 20 | So he just stopped — ‘ made that decision ’ — burned everything he had written and now he just took pictures . |
| 21 | He just collected animals but did n't know how to look after them . |
| 22 | And it turned out that there was a big goblin that lived on this island and he just ate fairies . |
| 23 | He just said girls are completely different from , from boys . |
| 24 | He said it was something to do with digging for roots , but William did n't know about that , he just liked graveyards . |
| 25 | Like you just did and he cracks up like he just did looks highly amused by the whole thing as to how somebody could could be so , I felt really stupid , as to walk out in front of them . |
| 26 | He easily rounded Eagles cover and cantered the fifty metres to score his first try in a month . |
| 27 | Although filling such conventional offices as JP and DL in Kent , he generally preferred profits to power . |
| 28 | Their son Prince Francis ( Frank ) inherited the habit , and as an officer with his regiment in Dublin he soon amassed debts of up to £1,000 . |
| 29 | When he set up his shop he already had plans for a town of books . |
| 30 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |