Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
| 2 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 3 | After this he made them both some cocoa and began the first of the Just So stories . |
| 4 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 5 | To achieve this he carried it over roads and streams by means of aqueducts , of which the most notable was that at Barton ( two hundred yards long and nearly forty feet above the Irwell ) , crossed valleys by embankments , cut through hills where they were unavoidable , and followed the contours where possible . |
| 6 | Instead of this he left her to think of a solution and then rejected it as an inappropriate translation . |
| 7 | He came in one afternoon and started painting black and white stripes round the fuselage and wings , when asked the reason for this he said it was a new allied marking . |
| 8 | At the Warwickshire Eyre of 1221 , one Reginald was found not guilty of the rape of Margery daughter of Aelfric ‘ because a long time before this he had her of her own free will , and again two years afterwards in the house of her father , and they say no cry was raised . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it . |
| 10 | A long letter from him to Miller in 1730 was brought to the attention of the Royal Society and in this he related his experience with inarching ( grafting ) for exotic trees , the climate of Midlothian not being as rigorous as one might imagine . |
| 11 | When Toscanini was told about this he doubled their winning for them . |
| 12 | With this he dismissed me . |
| 13 | Stark however was keen to distinguish knowledge from ideology and in this he differentiated himself from Mannheim 's position which he regarded as too dominated by Marxism ( Stark 1958 : 104 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ To this he called you through our gospel , so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ ’ ( 2 Thess. 2 : 1 4 ) . |
| 15 | In this he stated his loyalty to the ‘ Church of England , whose faith and government and worship are … free from the extremes of irreverence and superstition … and which I firmly believe to be a sound part of the Church universal ; and which teaches me charity to those who dissent from me ’ . |
| 16 | Hercules acquired through Athena an enormous bronze rattle made by Hephaistos , and with this he scared them from their coverts , then shot them down with arrows , the tips of which were poisoned with the blood of the Hydra . |
| 17 | It followed that punishments should be no harsher than was necessary to achieve reductivist ends by means of deterrence ; from this he derived his proposal for a tariff of fixed , certain penalties , proportionate to the offence but relatively mild by the standards of his own day . |
| 18 | We worked 12 hours a day , and for this he paid me 200 francs ( £20 ) a week because , he said , he had to take our board and lodging from our pay . ’ |
| 19 | And though it was not his way to wait passively for things to come to him , in this he found himself helpless , unable to act . |
| 20 | Despite all this he gave me one term to show some improvement , I never really shed the " below average " tag at the Halton style of academy . |
| 21 | With all this he retained his poise , his special modest confident quality , concealing the melancholy and resisting any temptation to swank . |
| 22 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 23 | In 1885 he obtained his doctorate with at thesis on the theory of invariants . |
| 24 | Count Geoffrey , by concentrating his forces on the conquest of Normandy , was able to recover the continental part of his wife 's inheritance by 1144 , and in 1150 he passed it on to his eldest son Henry Plantagenet , now twenty years old . |
| 25 | In 1881 he married his first cousin , Eliza , daughter of Franklin Stanley Cripps , a small shopkeeper in Wisbech . |
| 26 | Kate was cornered and it was clear he knew it . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes — but my father 's will makes it clear he wished her to remain here , and , as you know , she has no desire to move . ’ |
| 28 | In 1802 he joined his elder brother Daniel in founding a drapery business at 3 North Street , Brighton , where he drew and published ‘ A New and Correct Plan of Brighthelmstone ’ . |
| 29 | In public he put it all on unemployment . |
| 30 | When , for the first time , the Reverend John Wesley stopped in Portadown , then a village of about 700 inhabitants , on Friday 10 April 1767 he made his oft-quoted remark that it was ‘ a place not troubled with any kind of religion . ’ |