Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS . |
| 2 | As soon as he started to tear the paper off I had a wild desire to snatch it back , rush out and buy him a record-player ; it seemed such a ludicrously inadequate present after all he 'd done for me . |
| 3 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 4 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 5 | At a dinner to celebrate his 25 years , said of that he was an example to everybody in terms of hard work and leadership and recalled how in the snow of 1982 he had walked the five miles from his home and Playford to be at his desk at the normal time . |
| 6 | Told the women he was sharing a seat with that he 'd lost his money . |
| 7 | It was probable that he had not , and best in any case not to go near ; soon he would miss her , want her back , and perhaps give his permission for the marriage despite all he had said to the contrary . |
| 8 | This year 's Third Focus is highlighting , through screenings and a discussion forum , the work of Indian film maker Ritwik Ghatak and the work of those he has inspired . |
| 9 | As a boy of fifteen he had impressed his father , the Emperor Jehangir , with the taste he demonstrated in redesigning the Imperial apartments in Kabul . |
| 10 | There 's a vet like this he 's got a fucking bone in his mouth and the dogs his fucking leg . |
| 11 | In the civil war of 324 he had represented his military campaign as a crusade against a corrupt paganism . |
| 12 | By his retirement in 1955 he had performed in over 200 plays . |
| 13 | He felt drained , absolutely shattered by the enormity of all he had learned . |
| 14 | sort of , quarter past seven he 's had to leave in the morning to get there and then not getting home to , sort of , seven o'clock Dave picks up from the station and I think |
| 15 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 16 | He was a founder of the PLO , and since becoming chairman in 1969 he has involved himself tirelessly in every aspect of Palestinian affairs . |
| 17 | After being shown around the factory , Mr Hunt said that as a father of four he had had cause to be thankful for the company 's products . |
| 18 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 19 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 20 | At the age of eleven he had driven a herd of Welsh ponies up to the West Riding , for use as pit ponies in the mines . |
| 21 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 22 | At the age of seven he had fallen in love with a schoolteacher like her . |
| 23 | By the age of ten he had taken to dreamily wandering around areas of Stretford and Hulme not normally reserved for the vision of one so young . |
| 24 | By the age of twenty-nine he had appeared in two of the most successful films of all time and had won an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl . |
| 25 | And , indeed , he must have been a tough little lad to have survived it all , though it was to take its toll on him eventually ; by the time he died in far-away London at the age of 29 he had lived through some very harsh times indeed . |
| 26 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
| 27 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 28 | He visited the home of Simon Peter , was supported by well-to-do people and never encouraged Zacchaeus to dispose of the whole of his wealth at the time when he returned money to those he had cheated . |
| 29 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 30 | By an extended tour in 1780–2 he had become known as a pianist in Paris , Strasburg , Munich , and Vienna , and in 1802 he was enthusiastically received in St Petersburg . |