Example sentences of "he [adj] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 He first met Colin Chapman , boss of Lotus cars , at Brands Hatch in 1958 who was impressed with the youngster 's driving .
3 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 . ’
4 He first met Minton in a top-floor club in Wardour Street and they became firm friends .
5 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 .
6 This was being built between 1831 and 1833 , and it was probably about then that he first met Gilbert Scott .
7 He first met Chapman when he played a game for Leeds City in 1917 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 His own union grew from 1,000 when he first took office to 10,000 within a decade .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 It was in Berlin that he first read Morelli 's work .
21 Allen said he first had sex with Soon-Yi in the autumn of 1991 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 According to a colleague , Yasuo Goto , 67 , president of Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co , was ‘ struck by lightning ’ when he first saw Sunflowers .
25 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 .
26 Entitled To Advance Further Along the Road to Perestroika , Gorbachev 's address began with the assertion that there had been a " revolutionary stride " in all spheres of life since he first announced perestroika in April 1985 .
27 He first illustrated CD when he reprinted an extract from ‘ The Bloomsbury Christening ’ in Seymour 's Comic Album ( 1834 ) ; also furnished two designs for ‘ The Tuggs 's at Ramsgate ’ on its first appearance in the Library of Fiction for Apr. 1836 .
28 A week after he first lobbed Scuds into Tel Aviv , Mr Hussein had managed only to kill three elderly women .
29 He first caused outrage last February when he put his arm around the Queen 's waist during a Royal visit .
30 He first registered Eva as a missing person and then got a judge to issue an order to seek and find her , ’ explains Glynn .
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