Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He remained a member of the Diet and , although he tendered his resignation as leader of the Takeshita faction , this was not accepted . |
| 32 | In 1941 he stood as an independent candidate in four by-elections ; but although he retained his deposit on each occasion , there was to be no political comeback for this highly cantankerous patriot . |
| 33 | And Goethe — although he retained his admiration for the Greeks , and not least for the three tragedians , right up to his death in 1832 — mostly looked in other directions for his inspiration after the unfinished drama Pandora of 1810 . |
| 34 | No doubt it was easier to reform it with Dzerzhihsky nut of Moscow , although he retained his post as head . |
| 35 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 36 | During his speech he made no mention of Kuwait , although he repeated his call for a ceasefire , to be followed by US-Iraqi talks and inter-Arab dialogue . |
| 37 | Instead , although he drenched his campaign with the rhetoric of ‘ change ’ , some of the most potent symbolism he invoked in his speeches was backward-looking . |
| 38 | Dana would fall asleep immediately he put his head on the pillow , and after a while I had to try to extract myself from his embrace . |
| 39 | Immediately he slipped his arm about her . |
| 40 | In that case it is all one operation , and it could not matter that he wrote his signature on the document before the dispositive wording of the will . |
| 41 | It was to celebrate recovery from this illness that he wrote his Hymn to the Supreme Being , on Recovery from a dangerous fit of Illness . |
| 42 | Sutton-born Geoff Chilvers had been with the Palace as a Junior in the early days of the 2nd World War and had appeared at Selhurst Park in an interesting schoolboy game that was used as an experiment with numbered players , but his extraordinary claim to footballing fame , which will delight fans with a statistical quirk in their nature , is that he made his debut with a League club as a 16-year-old in a match where his side scored double figures . |
| 43 | Anybody who has kept copies of WCM will see that he made his debut against West Indies at Lahore in November 1986 , scoring 8 and 6 . |
| 44 | None the less , it was in London that he made his will on 8 April 1416 , characteristically dedicated to his kin , staff , and domestic servants . |
| 45 | MORLEY STREET 's hat was back in the Champion Hurdle ring yesterday after persuading trainer , Toby Balding , that he retains his dash in a crucial gallop on Saturday . |
| 46 | The result was that he left my flat in a fuming temper , very gruff but very sober , and the broadcast was , I was given to understand , of consummate skill and effectiveness . |
| 47 | what he has said is that he , it 's a matter for myself to talk to whoever I wish , and that he respects my judgement in these matters , er according to the joint statement issued Mr Reynolds briefed him on his discussions with me on that on that |
| 48 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 49 | It turned out that he shared my liking for the more conventional kind of organ . |
| 50 | Welsh bardic tradition was that he carried his offensive into the heartland of Gwynedd . |
| 51 | Perhaps he could n't bear to , perhaps it was just that he felt his marriage to be a private affair . |
| 52 | It was , for example , a sheer fluke that he began his career as a mining engineer with Manchester Collieries Ltd . |
| 53 | Before the hon. Gentleman gets stuck into the CAP , on which matter I hope that he will be as robust as my right hon. Friend in defending the interests of the British farmer , may I advise him that I was interested to note that he began his speech by talking about animal diseases and BSE ? |
| 54 | My first thought was that he meant his feeling for me . |
| 55 | Such was his ardour that he forced his way into the room where Thatcher sat in tears , threatening in the process to ‘ flatten ’ Sir Peter Morrison , who was barring the door . |
| 56 | My rebellion was only half-consciously directed at my father 's choice of reading matter for me , although his disapproving and often angry comments made it clear that he took my behaviour as a personal affront . |
| 57 | He was born Femão de Magalhães , and the Portuguese — ‘ he is ours ’ , they insist — rarely care to acknowledge that he renounced his citizenship after a row , pledged his allegiance to King Charles I — later to become the Emperor Charles V — and was given a new name : Hernando de Magallanes . |
| 58 | This sensation of being hemmed in in the middle of Europe was heightened by the foundation of the German Empire in 1871 , although it was Bismarck 's great achievement that he united his country in concert with the other nations of Europe . |
| 59 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 60 | Tom Conway , the London school 's master-in-charge , felt such sympathy for the Latymer Upper side , who outplayed his own team and lost 2-1 , that he popped his head around the visitors ' dressing-room door to say ‘ Sorry ’ . |