Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Henry was carrying his books , and suddenly he saw Sheila in the distance . " |
| 2 | After a while he dismounted , exhausted , and suddenly he caught sight of the car . |
| 3 | ‘ No , Apparently he wants access to the lower road . ’ |
| 4 | So he experienced society from the bottom up , before talent and determination made room at the top for him : ‘ That was a most valuable bit of education for which I shall always be grateful both to my bourgeois ancestry as well as to the regime , ’ he was to say later . |
| 5 | He explained without the slightest embarrassment , and while he did so he looped lengths of the rope clothes ' line by his feet . |
| 6 | So he started work in the office and showroom , a long narrow room on the first floor with windows that looked out onto the street , with shelves filled with lines of business machines , computers , word processors , the screens flickering as Lewis , Barnett 's other assistant , experimented with them . |
| 7 | As he did so he lost control of the vehicle which rolled over smashed into a lamp-post . |
| 8 | When Philip in 346 settled the Third Sacred War , he was ( personally ; not the Macedonians as a race ) admitted to the Delphic Amphictyony , the body which managed the prestige sanctuary at Delphi ; and so he gained admission to the Greek fraternity . |
| 9 | Thus he took part in the conference at Hampton Court which the King summoned in 1604 to discuss the demands of the Puritans for Church reform ; his only recorded intervention was to defend the use of the sign of the Cross in baptism by references from the early Fathers . |
| 10 | Robbins now draws more and more attention to the text itself , by indulging in a dialogue with his projected reader to celebrate reaching his hundredth chapter or by rejecting the claims of traditional literary decorum : ‘ happily , your author is not under contract to any of the muses who supply the reputable writers , and thus he has access to a considerable variety of sentences to spread and stretch from margin to margin … ’ ( 124 ) . |
| 11 | His leg was splinted , and thereupon he experienced life in a military hospital from the casualty 's viewpoint . |
| 12 | In effect , therefore , Gloucester 's offices were concentrated in the east of Lancashire , where they formed an extension of his West Riding interests , and elsewhere he yielded place to the Stanleys . |
| 13 | In effect , therefore , Gloucester 's offices were concentrated in the east of Lancashire , where they formed an extension of his West Riding interests , and elsewhere he yielded place to the Stanleys . |
| 14 | Moreover he had doubts about the Soviet ability to press a settlement upon a reluctant Vietnam . |
| 15 | Yesterday he drew attention to the three matters of concern to which I have no doubt that he will turn , in co-operation with other countries who are equally concerned , as soon as the Maastricht negotiations are complete . |
| 16 | Jazz was streamlined and beautiful and started to attract the girls ; he was the purest athlete of them all , but the more fluent he became at running and swimming , the more he lost confidence with the riding . |
| 17 | Later he became chairman of the Japan Society . |
| 18 | Later he became chairman of the orchestral committee for the Leeds music festival . |
| 19 | A year later he became master of the Stationers ' Company . |
| 20 | Two years later he became Leader of the House of Commons , and for the last two years of the Labour government presided over the empire of the Department of Health and Social Services . |
| 21 | In 1885 he became university lecturer in advanced invertebrate morphology and five years later he became superintendent of the University Museum of Zoology . |
| 22 | Three years later he became President of the College of Physicians and in 1727 Physician-General to the Army . |
| 23 | Later he became President of the MCC . |
| 24 | Later he visited Austria at the invitation of his friend Hugo Meisl , the Austrian team manager . |
| 25 | Much later he joined forces with the fledgling Spitalfields Trust , and their efforts have ensured that since 1961 only two more Georgian houses have been destroyed , and those in flagrant defiance of the law . |
| 26 | Burun loves power , but also he desires order in the land and so he will protect me . |
| 27 | The literary bias of British film reviewing has rarely been quite so plainly stated — Coward is the established name , his reputation guaranteed by years of theatrical success , hence he takes precedence over the mere maker of pictures . |
| 28 | Probably he required help with the auto-focus . |
| 29 | Everything was working out well : security and police chiefs on the Continent had been alerted ; the whole apparatus of WS & C was looking for Tweed under Morgan 's iron hand ; and now he had Marler in the manhunt . |
| 30 | Now he takes charge of a division with turnover approaching £3 billion and a product portfolio ranging from toothpaste to Calvin Klein perfumes . |