Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And when they turned homeward , to tell their grandfather what they had seen and heard , the king of the vookodlaks scurried away to a muddy , murky , bushy part of the wood where he lived with all his tribe of ugly , dark , hairy , spiteful , brawling goblins . |
| 32 | Number forty-three where he lived with three other youngsters was more dilapidated than most . |
| 33 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 34 | Although he lived for eleven more years , he did not stand again . |
| 35 | The man claims he was then taken to a boat on the Norfolk Broads , where he lived for two weeks , and then spent a week holed-up in a room at an unknown holiday camp . |
| 36 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 37 | He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’ |
| 38 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 39 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 40 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |
| 41 | He lived for another four years while his empire lapsed into chaos . |
| 42 | Though Ceolwulf abdicated in 737 , he lived until 764 , and so was probably only in his early twenties at the most when he succeeded Osric . |
| 43 | As such he accumulated considerable property , as well as a reversion of the manor of Bletchingley , where he lived from 1546 , and a number of stewardships and keeperships of royal manors , including that of the new palace of Nonsuch . |
| 44 | He lived in one of the tombs . |
| 45 | After a torrid love affair , he lived in abject poverty , telling his story to anyone who would listen for the price of a drink . |
| 46 | He lived in great style with a hundred servants , keeping house ‘ right bounteously ’ — in 1554 his military equipment at Bletchingley alone filled seventeen wagons . |
| 47 | He lived in 1935 ( when I last saw him ) in the utmost simplicity , although if he had been a little more conciliatory he could always have earned enough for his comfort — and his wife 's ; but he never valued anything that money could buy as he valued the integrity of his sharp-shooting mind . |
| 48 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 49 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 50 | He relates a lasting erotic liaison with a certain Mary Parish , an astrologer , cunning woman , and medium , with whom he lived in Long Acre , and by whom he claimed to have had progeny numbering 106 . |
| 51 | But at Allen Street , where he lived in considerable poverty , he insisted on his independence , cooked all his meals on a gas ring in his room and refused to accept any hospitality from Minton . |
| 52 | He lived in considerable squalor and acrimony in a small Putney flat with his ‘ three bitches ’ : Queenie , his ageing Aunt Bunny , and his emotionally unstable sister , Nancy . |
| 53 | He lived in evident poverty , lodging with a cobbler called Morgan , and when his grandchildren came on Sundays to visit ; |
| 54 | Perhaps as a result , he lived in some poverty for a time in old age , though he was eventually rescued by his friends . |
| 55 | The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities . |
| 56 | On 20 January 1744 he reached Paris , and moved on to Gravelines near Dunkirk , where he lived in strict privacy under the name of the Chevalier Douglas . |
| 57 | He lived in beautiful houses , travelled the world in the greatest of comfort , and wanted for nothing . |
| 58 | His concern for the souls of the rich was equalled only by his fear of the impatience of the poor ; he lived in daily fear of revolution . |
| 59 | He was possessed of a calm , reasoned courage in the face of a real danger , but he lived in constant fear of dangers which existed in his brain only " . |
| 60 | He winched in hard and let go the lashings round the rolled bedsheets . |