Example sentences of "he [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front rode Mr Rochester on his black horse , and with him rode a beautiful lady , her black curls streaming in the wind . |
| 2 | Turning the tables on him drew an expressionless silence for a few seconds , and then he smiled , his eyes gleaming in genuine amusement . |
| 3 | Walsh went first to Hungerford in search of Charles Mogg — ‘ by no means the most intelligent Man in the World ’ — and from him received a detailed account of his conversations with Thomas Jones and other villagers at Holford . |
| 4 | But as he did the wind caught at him even more mightily than before ; there was the sense of commotion and movement in the air and out of the darkness behind him came a terrible crack , a heave and a bang and whoosh such as he had never heard in his life . |
| 5 | With him came a young staff officer destined to become one of Germany 's greatest commanders in the Second World War ; Erich von Manstein . |
| 6 | From the darkness beside him came a sudden wild shout of laughter . |
| 7 | Behind him came a hefty , brisk-looking rabbit , something over twelve months old . |
| 8 | Cat watched them go , all about him hung a sweet smoky smell . |
| 9 | Deep in him lay a hard logic , which had resisted the Church , and now resisted Tess . |
| 10 | It was in ‘ the epic vein' which for him meant a long rhyming poem about knights in armour . |
| 11 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 12 | Later one of the Shahs ambassadors who eventually denounced him gave a different description . |
| 13 | America 's economic sanctions failed to dislodge General Manuel Noriega but squeezed the economy dry ; the invasion that did dislodge him left a war-battered city , with some 18,000 people homeless and unemployment soaring . |
| 14 | In front of him stretched a long queue of women each clutching a copy of As the Crow Flies . |
| 15 | The paper in front of him remained a virginal white ; Sergeant Bird had the role of scribe . |
| 16 | Amongst the papers before him stood an empty breakfast cup and an egg-smeared plate , suggesting that his digestion was as robust as his nerve . |
| 17 | Either side of him sat a large , so lid man : one caught Marcus 's eye and he began an earnest inspection of the floor . |
| 18 | He made a macabre figure standing there with wires up his nose and the whites of his uprolled eyes showing through his empty faceplate . |
| 19 | If he kens you too , then it will be a re-union , if not … ’ he made a clicking sound with his tongue . |
| 20 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 21 | He made a good living from his extensive knowledge of breakbeats and old funk records , and eventually Beats International evolved quite naturally out of his love of DJing . |
| 22 | He made a good living , and seemed resentful of his wife 's decision to take in a lodger . |
| 23 | After that no studio would touch him , although he made a good living as an actor and was even reunited with Gloria Swanson to recount more glorious days in Sunset Boulevard . |
| 24 | Fred had been helping to rescue a family trapped in a cellar when a collapsing beam held him trapped by his left arm and leg for several hours , but he made a good recovery . |
| 25 | He suffered another attack of pneumonia and , on medical advice , he spent the winter of 1905–6 in Egypt , where he made a good recovery . |
| 26 | He made a good recovery and in February this year was able to undergo an operation to replace both hips . |
| 27 | At the same time , he made a good contribution on the difficulty in which Labour will find itself , if it is ever in government , with its massive plans for overspending . |
| 28 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 29 | He made a good world . |
| 30 | it was like a maze , and he said to me Raymond you leave it to me , I 'll build these cheap as possible , but he made a good , the principle was |