Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made both England tries , having the nous as well as the courage to launch a counter-attack from deep inside his own half . |
| 2 | The late Raymond Lewenthal is perhaps best known these days as the first performer in modern times to have revived the music of Alkan , a collection of whose music he also published two years after he made these Gershwin recordings ( in Walthamstow Town Hall , of all places ) . |
| 3 | He also repeats gay allegations he made last April against Prince Andrew 's younger brother Edward on a controversial American TV show . |
| 4 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 5 | He battered 43-year-old Jane to death with a bottle at their £275,000 weekend home at Middleton-on-Sea , Sussex . |
| 6 | From 1753 , when he sold two Sussex farms , until the death of his wife Elizabeth , daughter of Henry Thompson , of Kirby Hall , Yorkshire , in 1759 , his country home was in Charlton , moving to Lamorbey , at Bexley , when he married Esther Spencer ( died 1784 ) in March 1760 . |
| 7 | Pawar began a four-day official visit to the USA on April 8 during which he met key US officials including Defence Secretary Richard Cheney . |
| 8 | He met former James Bond girl Alison Doody in a Dublin nightspot on the last day of his trek around Ireland in the footsteps of ex-fiancee Julia Roberts . |
| 9 | Hopes were raised on June 28 when French President François Mitterrand , immediately after the EC summit in Lisbon [ see pp. 38942-43 ] , unexpectedly paid a six-hour visit to Sarajevo , where he met Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and Radovan Karadzic , leader of the Bosnian Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) . |
| 10 | She was referred to the town 's main fire station where he met sub-officer John Yoxall and had the bracket cut off with a small hacksaw . |
| 11 | ‘ He was a thirty-two-year-old widower when he met nineteen-year-old Lucia Lucchesi and fell deeply in love with her . |
| 12 | Whatever it was , he appointed one John Leathart , a mining engineer , to conduct a survey of the Coniston Mines and to advise on the true position there . |
| 13 | He won his first round match in the United States Open , putting Flushing Meadow into a party mood as he whipped Brazilian Jaime Oncins 6-1 , 6-2 , 6-3 . |
| 14 | He avoided other Lake Tourists and yet , if caught , he would be as warm as an old friend . |
| 15 | But really , he led poor Amy a dog 's life . |
| 16 | But he led poor Stevenson to his death , and he almost killed me . ’ |
| 17 | I did n't know he got two James Bond |
| 18 | ‘ He read all Thucydides , Sophocles and Sallust , 12 books of Tacitus , the greater part of Horace , Juvenal , Persius and several plays of Aeschylus and Euripides . |
| 19 | In desperation he tried heathen Trob , and the little man 's face split into a delighted grin . |
| 20 | He defeated fellow Scot Colin Montgomerie at the first hole of a sudden-death decider after the pair had tied on three-over-par 287 . |
| 21 | He defeated 59-year-old Denis Watson of Leeds by 32592072 . |
| 22 | He defeated Moldavian CP leader Pyotr Luchinsky . |
| 23 | Then he hanged himself in the garage close to where he found battered Marion dying last week . |
| 24 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 25 | He found Royal St. George 's unpredictable and demanding . |
| 26 | Then News at Ten told how he found 11-year-old Matthew Davies stuck up to his waist in peat on the Brecon Beacons in Wales . |
| 27 | Reynolds , sidelined for 2-years by a disputed doping suspension , made the most of his first appearance back on the world 's stage as he caught Nigerian Sunday Bada coming around the final curve and won going away . |
| 28 | Newman slowed down as he approached 495 Greenway Gardens , Wandsworth . |
| 29 | Chang , the sixth seed , was clearly exhausted by the two-and-a-half hour match after having been on court for nearly four hours on Friday when he beat Russian Andrei Chesnokov in the quarter-finals . |
| 30 | FALLEN hero Alex ‘ Hurricane ’ Higgins took another step on the comeback trail last night when he beat Canadian Kirk Stephens 10-5 to keep alive his dream of a return to the Crucible . |