Example sentences of "he [adj] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | He first met Colin Chapman , boss of Lotus cars , at Brands Hatch in 1958 who was impressed with the youngster 's driving . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | He first met Minton in a top-floor club in Wardour Street and they became firm friends . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was being built between 1831 and 1833 , and it was probably about then that he first met Gilbert Scott . |
| 8 | He first met Chapman when he played a game for Leeds City in 1917 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A bookmakers ' 2–1 favourite , he first confronts Stephen Murphy , of Dublin , three years a professional but raw to the aptly-named Crucible . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was in Berlin that he first read Morelli 's work . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | According to a colleague , Yasuo Goto , 67 , president of Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co , was ‘ struck by lightning ’ when he first saw Sunflowers . |
| 17 | Taylor , 22 , from Inverurie , said he first realised Murray was involved in drug-taking when he saw him stick a needle in his arm at the depot . |
| 18 | A week after he first lobbed Scuds into Tel Aviv , Mr Hussein had managed only to kill three elderly women . |
| 19 | ‘ He first registered Eva as a missing person and then got a judge to issue an order to seek and find her , ’ explains Glynn . |
| 20 | As ‘ R.P. ’ he first published De morbis capitis ; or , of the chief internall diseases of the head ( 1650 ) . |
| 21 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 22 | It was probably here , too , that he first encountered Paul Odo Cross , the wealthy ex-ballet dancer who lived with the plant photographer , Angus Wilson , at Tidcombe Manor in Wiltshire , where they created a marvellous garden and influenced Cedric Morris with their growing and breeding of irises . |
| 23 | He half-expected to hear Kate or Massingham moving up beside him to watch , unspeaking but with interested eyes , his untypical act of sentimental folly . |
| 24 | Police inspector Alex from Mapperley said he last saw Helen at bedtime on the second of November . |
| 25 | Alan Brown , whose wife runs the Old Court Residential Care Home in Abbey Court , told the hearing at Abergele that he last saw Mr Richardson early on August 11 . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last met CBI ( Scotland ) to discuss the role of Scotland in Europe . |
| 27 | That look I think was for when he next meets Gareth Gilcock . |
| 28 | My right hon. Friend will be aware , when he next visits Lancashire , that the news that the Liberal council has had to give up office in Maidstone has travelled the length and breadth of the land — |
| 29 | Was he wise to give Joanne Menzies his address ? |