Example sentences of "he [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was he ashamed to meet men to whom he talked two ways ? … |
| 2 | Helmut Mahlke , was hit in the starboard wing by an A.A. burst , and only by luck and much skill was he able to regain Sicily and land safely . |
| 3 | LEAs would not he able to restrict admissions to schools by using artificial admissions limits . |
| 4 | The chairman of the 1922 Committee and scrutineers designated by him will he available to receive nominations . |
| 5 | On the contrary , as I have insisted , one indelibly American thing about Pound from the day when he first reached London was his , as it must seem to us , excessive faith in know-how , in a communicable ‘ bag of tricks ’ . |
| 6 | He first met Colin Chapman , boss of Lotus cars , at Brands Hatch in 1958 who was impressed with the youngster 's driving . |
| 7 | She invited Nkrumah to breakfast , and he first met Mrs Pandit 's grand-daughter : However , reportedly , Nehru was not amused : ‘ From then on he considered Nkrumah an opportunist of the Sukarno stamp . ’ |
| 8 | He first met Minton in a top-floor club in Wardour Street and they became firm friends . |
| 9 | He first met Wordsworth in 1795 and corresponded with him thereafter ; meanwhile he dedicated himself to Left-wing political and religious propaganda , writing and lecturing in provincial towns . |
| 10 | This was being built between 1831 and 1833 , and it was probably about then that he first met Gilbert Scott . |
| 11 | He first met Chapman when he played a game for Leeds City in 1917 . |
| 12 | In a 1975 introduction to his first novel , Jill , Larkin has revealed what his college life in war-time Oxford was like , and how he first met Amis there — an account somewhat amended by Amis in his contribution to Larkin at Sixty ( 1982 ) ; and collections of essays with titles like My Oxford ( 1977 ) and My Cambridge ( 1977 ) have assembled reminiscences of how mind and character were once forged round and about the tender age of twenty . |
| 13 | It was on a visit to Ulverston that he first met Thomas West , who was working on his historical and topographic work on the area . |
| 14 | He first met Ms Margaret Maughan , a person and ‘ lifelong fan ’ , in 1967 and they embarked upon ‘ an eight-year affair ’ which culminated in the birth in 1976 of one ‘ James ’ whom Mr Milligan ‘ has never met ’ even though he is said to have ‘ admitted ’ to newspaper reporters : ‘ It 's all true . |
| 15 | A bookmakers ' 2–1 favourite , he first confronts Stephen Murphy , of Dublin , three years a professional but raw to the aptly-named Crucible . |
| 16 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 17 | But in 1483 Richard of Gloucester , later Richard III , is supposed to have been in residence when he first heard news of the murder of the princes in the Tower . |
| 18 | Sam was so relieved at the news that mother and child were well that the fact that he had n't won the wager was nothing to him , and when he first laid eyes on the baby all he could do was kneel down and weep for joy . |
| 19 | Arguing that Richard 's attack on Toulouse was a breach of the truce of 1187 — which Richard denied — Philip invaded Berry for the second time in twelve months , though he first took care to ascertain that Henry II disclaimed any responsibility for his son 's actions and was therefore unlikely to move swiftly to his assistance . |
| 20 | Despite the disquiet at the club this year , Mr Stringer still appears more relaxed and more in control than he did when he first took charge in that winter of 1987 . |
| 21 | This was perhaps because he managed to stop Sandys sweeping the aircraft-carriers onto the junk-heap of history as he had intended to do when he first took office . |
| 22 | His own union grew from 1,000 when he first took office to 10,000 within a decade . |
| 23 | Life went on that way until 1986 , when he moved to New Orleans , where he first received notice for being arrested twice in six months for driving while intoxicated . |
| 24 | He first became director of education , Tonga ( 1916–19 ) , and thereafter held professorships in Cape Town ( 1921–5 ) , Sydney ( 1926–31 ) , Chicago ( 1931–7 ) with Yenching University in China ( 1935 ) , and Oxford ( 1937–46 ) with a fellowship of All Souls College and a wartime secondment to Sao Paulo . |
| 25 | It was in Berlin that he first read Morelli 's work . |
| 26 | As the play goes on , we notice that when Tamburlaine is confronted by war , he first offers words as a way of warning and deterrent , and then is the opposition do not listen , he follows this up with swift and bloody actions . |
| 27 | Allen said he first had sex with Soon-Yi in the autumn of 1991 . |
| 28 | He was still convinced that there was something wrong and said that he had noticed some urethral discharge first thing in the morning and also a slight ‘ tingle ’ when he first passed urine in the day . |
| 29 | Local magistrate Ron Turner , who arrives with his sandwich-box and has probably not missed a match since he first saw Hampshire at Dean Park in the 1930s , remembers Len Hutton 's double-century and the various Championships decided there . |
| 30 | According to a colleague , Yasuo Goto , 67 , president of Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co , was ‘ struck by lightning ’ when he first saw Sunflowers . |