Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairbank 's contribution to handwriting made him known to a larger public . |
| 2 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 3 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 4 | One particular day , having struggled through an ugly crowd of protesters to the safety of the Welsh Office , the Prince announced he was going back out to talk to them . |
| 5 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 6 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 7 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 8 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 9 | Even old Stalin Nicholson might be exhorting Gary this very minute , over egg and chips , recalling his days as fastest hod-carrier in the high-rise development before the lumbago got him . |
| 10 | Howe 's reputation as an animal painter was made when Sir John Sinclair of the Board of Agriculture commissioned him to draw details of various breeds of cattle , and he went on to paint hundreds more pictures , mostly of horses . |
| 11 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 12 | Mickie then and there decided that if the opportunity arose he would team up with Raoul on future helicopter design . |
| 13 | A farm truck passed him , stopped and the driver , a man in his sixties , looked out . |
| 14 | The first hint that Hills might be interested in a group pensions plan came when the company 's Board asked him to arrange a formal briefing . |
| 15 | However , recognising John 's substantial experience of ICAO matters , the division appointed him as chairman of committee ‘ A ’ , with the result that I was left virtually as head of the UK delegation . |
| 16 | Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth . |
| 17 | The man who , up to then , had experienced 18 years as a player at the highest level revealed how the sack made him determined to prove he had not suddenly become second rate . |
| 18 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 19 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 20 | ‘ Have you sailed the rivers long ? ’ red-haired Darmid asked him . |
| 21 | But his ruthlessness made him as much a figure of fun as a minister of fear , and whatever his future holds , Souness will always be pursued by a sense of resentment in Scotland . |
| 22 | And , when the cast of The Hooded Owl met him , they could understand why . |
| 23 | His dribbly nose , crooked teeth and cheeky Cockney accent made him an obvious classroom victim . |
| 24 | he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse . |
| 25 | His Mum passed him his chips and crispy pancakes . |
| 26 | Quite different from her brother , who was slim where she was rotund , and whose dark hair lent him a certain swarthy , though boyish , kind of good looks . |
| 27 | This split made him simultaneously very alert and extremely absent-minded , now on the ball , now off in a world of his own . |
| 28 | ‘ Gardening vexeth the spirit , ’ my dad used to say to me with a broad wink whenever my mum asked him to get out and cut the lawn . |
| 29 | The fact that it lacked heraldry around it was a sign that he belonged to no particular lord , though the blue sash announced he was attached to the Household of Ralarth . |
| 30 | The abruptness of the change made him shudder . |