Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he saw their mood he made no attempt to join or follow ; and the people , seeing he had not the cut of a government man , passed him by . |
| 2 | This gallant officer , the colonel assured the regiment , careless of his own safety , continued the attack after Lieutenant Harvey had fallen , killing several German soldiers before reaching their dugouts , where he wiped out a complete enemy unit singlehanded . |
| 3 | He anticipated the later work of Humphry Repton [ q.v. ] by creating flower gardens adjacent to the house , as at Sandon in 1781 , where he laid out a garden under the windows of the drawing-room , planted with flowers and flowering shrubs and with a central basin of water with goldfish . |
| 4 | ‘ The tree in the forest , where he sealed up the dybbuk … ’ |
| 5 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 6 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 7 | But as he prepared to switch from the more austere environs of the Treasury , where he saw out the final 16 months of the last Tory Government , Mr Mellor spoke of the importance he and the Prime Minister attached to encouraging artistic excellence and preserving the national heritage . |
| 8 | Where he does so the court associate must , at the conclusion of the trial , record that opinion in his certificate so that an appropriate reduction may be considered ( Ord 35 , r 10A ) . |
| 9 | It was his desire to play the Senior Tour and his love of golf which has given the Notts professional the inspiration to overcome his terrible injuries and pick up where he left off a little more than a year ago . |
| 10 | He strolled along by the front of the house until he reached the north wing , where he turned down the grassy slope towards the trees . |
| 11 | no , not yet , I 've seen the beginning where he set up the and that |
| 12 | Then , leaving his sobbing family at home , he dashed to a soccer match , where he gave away a penalty and cheated his team of a victory . |
| 13 | His most spectacular success came in the AJC PLate , where he handed out a ten-length beating to his Melbourne Cup conqueror Nightmarch . |
| 14 | He pushed past Sharpe into the map room where he threw back the heavy wooden shutters to flood the tables with sunlight . |
| 15 | He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) . |
| 16 | During a lunch break I sat with him in a village pub where he put away a few pints . |
| 17 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 18 | Although he played only a minor military role in the war , he was a colonel by 1646 and was present at the capture of Ludlow in May . |
| 19 | Barely more than half an hour before , he 'd driven into the village on an errand for the Venetz sisters and although he saw almost no one along the way , he 'd been able to sense a tension in the air ; it was a faint background buzz like that of power lines in the rain . |
| 20 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh that one , ’ he said , although he had n't the faintest idea . |
| 22 | Although he had not a prayer against Desert Orchid in the Gold Cup , Norton 's Coin came to Cheltenham with the reputation of being a useful enough horse despite lowly origins . |
| 23 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
| 24 | Although he handed over the active management of his business some time ago to his son , Bill , his keen interest in the affairs of Cessford and in the welfare of his family never flagged . |
| 25 | Mark Hughes slotted in comfortably at centre-back , although he picked up a booking and went close to receiving a red card . |
| 26 | It was from these informants that he pieced together a picture of organised crime as being controlled by key personnel in the police force , local government , business and the legal profession . |
| 27 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 28 | Tories aching for fizz have to accept the meat and two veg reality ; and they may remember that , in the fable , Jupiter grew so tired of the frogs complaining about their uninspiring King Log that he sent down a replacement , King Stork , who ate them all . |
| 29 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
| 30 | It is a penalty if it was not a genuine attempt by the parties to pre-estimate the likely damages but was intended to hang in terror over one party to ensure that he carried out the contract . |