Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Belfast councillor John Carson has been reported to his North Belfast Unionist Constituency Association over allegations that he verbally assaulted party member Fred Proctor . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He eventually found solace in religion . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He eventually lost interest . |
| 10 | Perhaps inevitably , he eventually contracted typhus at Kherson , in the Crimea , in January 1790 and was dead within a few days . |
| 11 | He successfully defended rowing as an Olympic sport and in 1976 introduced women 's events , which have now expanded to six classes . |
| 12 | He successfully resisted treatment , and he returned home from the clinic describing himself , and I use his own words , as being ‘ fantastically ill ’ . |
| 13 | Having discovered the true position he successfully claimed recovery of all dues paid in respect of exempted limestone . |
| 14 | He successfully petitioned parliament to reverse the judgement of 1322 against his cousin Mortimer of Chirk , but declared himself his uncle 's heir and expropriated his lands despite the fact that his uncle had a son and grandson living . |
| 15 | In 1825 , however , he badly needed money to finance his Italian armies and had few options left but to convene the long-neglected Hungarian parliament . |
| 16 | In presidential elections held on Nov. 8 , 1988 [ see pp. 36337-42 ] , the Republican candidate and incumbent Vice-President , George Herbert Walker Bush , defeated his Democratic rival ; he duly took office as President on Jan. 20 , 1989 [ see p. 36391 ] . |
| 17 | In presidential elections held on Nov. 8 , 1988 , the Republican Party candidate and then Vice-President , George Bush , defeated his Democratic Party rival Mike Dukakis ; he duly took office as President on Jan. 20 , 1989 . |
| 18 | He effectively wrecked Ludo as a game of skill and honour . |
| 19 | as he wearily trudged door to door . |
| 20 | He mostly spoke English to us younger ones anyway . |
| 21 | In conjunction with English printers in Amsterdam , he mostly reprinted anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish books during the 1620s . |
| 22 | He rarely had recourse to it . |
| 23 | It was Sunday , and Yanto had enjoyed the casual breakfast with his Mother , something he rarely had time for during the working week Their chat during breakfast had revealed to him that his Mother had enjoyed the previous Friday evening out with Sid Watkins and would probably see him again . |
| 24 | Shortly afterwards he apparently became tutor to a son or sons of Sir Thomas Hoby [ q.v. ] , of Bisham Abbey , Berkshire , whose wife Elizabeth [ q.v. ] commended him to her brother-in-law William Cecil ( later Baron Burghley , q.v. ) , whom Hayes apparently served in unknown capacities for at least twenty years . |
| 25 | He apparently introduced Fagg as his colonel . ’ |
| 26 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 27 | He merely shifted position slightly , knotted his fingers more tightly together and continued gazing out of the window . |
| 28 | It would be too banal if he merely had epilepsy . |
| 29 | He obviously had impregnation on his mind , but by now Lydia had lost her temper and she told him to get stuffed . |
| 30 | Apart from calling Blum ‘ the most dangerous man in Indo-China ’ de Lattre complained of all the ‘ missionary young men ’ the US was sending to Vietnam , of the way in which they undermined the idea of the French Union and , as he obviously had time to read the reports as soon as they were sent , he objected strenuously and in person to US correspondents who did not share his more exalted view of France 's mission in Indo-China . |