Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1981 , after fifteen months hors de combat , he made yet another reappearance , this time in the valuable Whitbread Trial Chase at Ascot . |
| 2 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 3 | He made so many plans for this wedding . |
| 4 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 5 | His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one . |
| 6 | Pete must have dropped onto his bed without undressing , he made so little sound . |
| 7 | Walking on his hands , he made hardly any noise , only a carpet-slipper slapping of palms against the floor . |
| 8 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 9 | He made far more play than his father ( or other ninth-century Carolingians ) with the penalty of the harmscara — a public humiliation imposed at the ruler 's discretion which involved the victim 's carrying a saddle on his back . |
| 10 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , he lived here all his life . ’ |
| 12 | He lived so much within his own head that the times at which he ate and slept were entirely arbitrary . |
| 13 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 14 | I do n't give a damn about Ivan 's ridiculous rag , said Charles , but of course he did , he cared much more than she did , and with reason , for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment , whereas Charles always got it in the neck : ‘ HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG ’ had been the headline of Ivan 's latest piece of gossip , which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles 's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors , laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge . |
| 15 | But he always gave the impression that he cared much more about people than things — even if that meant falling , as Pat would have it , for the occasional sob story . |
| 16 | He produced as many copies as possible in the economical A state , stopping the press at once to rejig the type . |
| 17 | In 1864 he sold over half a million prints . |
| 18 | ‘ He did , once , but he threw them out of his house ; he thought he wasted too much time telling his two youngest sons bed-time stories . ’ |
| 19 | Parsons left the NME before he became just another hack , taking with him memories like this : |
| 20 | You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now . |
| 21 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 22 | When he got home that evening he could smell that Val was in a mood . |
| 23 | When he got home that evening he still could n't get the hat off . |
| 24 | Sometimes he got as much as what would now be £1.50 to go home with . |
| 25 | When he got too much praise in training , Probyn said : ‘ I knew they were going to try someone else . ’ |
| 26 | He owned very little and the packing did not take long . |
| 27 | There was a time when he owned only this great mausoleum , and that piece of derelict land at the bottom of Shorrock Hill . |
| 28 | He owned so many feddans of land . |
| 29 | Then he read somewhere that heavy sweating is how the body expels poisons it ca n't get rid of in any other way . |
| 30 | He read extensively many leading political writers of the age , notably Turgot . |