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

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1 No no it 's , it 's very good he actually had a go and the rest of you were sitting there dumbfounded by the question .
2 In late 1909 he also published a pamphlet , The One Life .
3 For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England .
4 He also experimented with lighter-than-air flight : he wrote three papers on airships in the Philosophical Magazine ( February 1816–July 1817 ) of Alexander Tilloch [ q.v. ] , and in 1820 he successfully flew a model airship at Brompton .
5 On August 2nd he needlessly started a war .
6 In 1961 he finally pulled a deal together with the Ford Motor Co and AC Cars Ltd , and early in 1962 the Cobra was born .
7 It had suddenly occurred to her that he probably had a family , a wife .
8 Ackroyd put the signals to red , rang the station down the line to tell them that he had a problem and then rang the next station above to alert them that he still had a train in his section .
9 WHEN Laszlo Polgar , a Hungarian vocational school teacher , married his Ukrainian wife , Klara , in 1965 he carefully studied a number of books on ‘ fathering ’ .
10 So far from allowing that number might increase , in 1769 he even favoured a reduction of the number of the enfranchised .
11 At best he maybe had a letter from the client , that letter had gained copious notes as it filtered its way through the hierarchy , some helpful , some intelligible , unintelligible should I , should I say , and some contradictory .
12 Apart from his Midlands Grand National triumph in 1990 he also gained a verdict over Norton 's Coin at Cheltenham — two months before that horse 's Gold Cup success — and would have been an easy winner of the Greenall Whitley Chase but for falling when clear at the last fence .
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