Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither the man nor his union could have pursued the case alone , but thanks to the insurance he eventually collected £22,500 compensation . |
| 2 | He described their house , the large stable which had grown year by year under the assiduous management of his father , or ‘ second father ’ , as he hesitatingly described him. , |
| 3 | He had stolen £1,200 and , when asked why he only had £700 left , said : ‘ I gave the rest to a prostitute for sex . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He only received £11,000 PRS . ’ |
| 5 | Bill Hand was a little fellow with a little name — he only stood 5ft 6ins in his stockinged feet — but he was tough and sturdy and could play on the wing or at inside-forward and did so to considerable effect for the Palace in the early 1920s . |
| 6 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 7 | He only liked people of his own generation . |
| 8 | And he only charged sixpence . |
| 9 | I suppose he just felt people ought to know what things were like people down South , you know . |
| 10 | Budhoo was allegedly on short rations from the honeypot because of his intransigence , but he nevertheless pulled $143,000 a year in salary and other subsidies , excluding those related to official travel and mission work . |
| 11 | At this time of night he always enjoyed fish and chips , as opposed to a good , traditional Jewish meal , whether that be chicken soup with kneidlech ( a type of doughball ) fish latkes or potato latkes ( a latki being a fritter ) lokshen ( noodles ) or sandwiches made with baigels ( rolls ) and salmon . |
| 12 | He always pitied people who had to ask for information . |
| 13 | He once lost £80,000 when a tour of Japan was cancelled suddenly and he had to pay the cost of transporting the show 's equipment back to Britain out of his own pocket . |
| 14 | His record includes robbery and burglary and he once gave £1,000 to a drug dealer for heroin . |
| 15 | He also grew fruit and vegetables for domestic consumption . |
| 16 | He also received £1,000 to donate to the charity of his choice , Back-up , for spinally-injured men and women . |
| 17 | He also said people had experienced electric shocks when working on roofs directly below the cables . |
| 18 | One patient had ileal ( by barium follow through ) and rectal Crohn 's disease , one had an ileal vascular malformation ( showed by angiography and at laparotomy ) and one had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with a slight increase in chromium labelled red cell loss ( though he also took aspirin ) . |
| 19 | He also recovered £600 by way of damages from Captain Lake . |
| 20 | He also raised $1.2m — twice as much as Mrs Molina . |
| 21 | At Mr Ramirez 's request he also transmitted $60,000 from WedTech to a company controlled by the official after he left the government . |
| 22 | He also left £1,000 to the King 's Heath and Moseley Institute . |
| 23 | He also left £4,000 for its endowment . |
| 24 | He also quoted £45 for building a staircase and balcony on to the ladies ' room . |
| 25 | He also had 6½d a day allowed to him for lunches at work and demanded that 1/1d a week be spent on ‘ relishes ’ for his breakfast and tea — usually consisting of an egg , a piece of bacon , or fish . |
| 26 | Only very occasionally is it possible to read between the lines , as in one instance at South Luffenham , where Henry Bonytt , as the sole tenant of freeholder Edward Sapcote , presumably held a lease ; he also had 10s. a year in land and a subtenant called William Clark , who must mutatis mutandis have held from him by lease , if not from year to year . |
| 27 | He also gutted fish on a trawler in the north Atlantic . |
| 28 | He also predicted people would be forced to move out of sheltered housing centres , many of which have centrally controlled heating points . |
| 29 | He received no payment for his attendance on the young king and he also paid £800 towards the king 's expenses , including the cost of the royal household — a contribution which must have enhanced his political prestige . |
| 30 | He received no payment for his attendance on the young king and he also paid £800 towards the king 's expenses , including the cost of the royal household — a contribution which must have enhanced his political prestige . |