Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most nights he made at least one trip out here , and each time he learned nothing . |
| 2 | He made at least 5 million workers unhappy but if his actions make the unemployed happy because they now can get jobs , his bitter medicine will have been worthwhile . |
| 3 | He made at least 5 WORLD class saves , the best to deny Noel Whelan . |
| 4 | Sometime before Jacques married he had moved from the rue Dauphine St Andre des Arts , where he had lived from about 1714 , to the rue de Seine , in the parish of St Sulpice , where he had a large five-storey house in which he lived for over 40 years until his death in 1763 . |
| 5 | His house was sacked during the revolt , and he himself was discharged from office ; although he lived for almost twenty years more , he was not reappointed . |
| 6 | He succeeded with only two of then attempts from a slushy field against Otago . |
| 7 | The Ostrogothic era ; Ravenna was taken by Theodoric in 493 and he ruled for over 30 years . |
| 8 | In this capacity he produced at least one paper on study skills which is most notable for its adherence to the conventions of academe . |
| 9 | Mayne was not at all happy about this , but he agreed with as good a grace as possible . |
| 10 | Later he would travel to France and England , where he met with more senior BCCI officials as he tried to make arrangements to launder millions of dollars a month . |
| 11 | He lives , still , in the same Chelsea fiat with its pink and white striped wallpaper , geranium-filled window-boxes , elegant chintzy furniture , and the myriad of expressive original paintings which Joyce and he shared for so many years . |
| 12 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 13 | The king was astonished that he asked for so little , and readily agreed . |
| 14 | ‘ Why are you so touchy about Doreen ? ’ he asked with barely concealed amusement . |
| 15 | He failed by just 12 runs to equal Sunil Gavaskar 's individual India Test record the 236 not out he made against the West Indies at Madras in 1983-84 . |
| 16 | But poor old Wayne Phillips was always going to suffer for the demise of the local hero , unless he got at least 100 in his first trip to the crease . |
| 17 | Under ‘ Thursday ’ , he read of only two engagements : his treat , that is , the lunch he was giving at English 's Oyster House at one o'clock for six of his local party , much travelled Salopians upon whose goodwill , patience and forbearance he had long relied ; and ( here his heart fell ) the National Society of Agents ' dinner at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 18 | At the same time , mindful of the need to reward his partisans while controlling the distribution of influence , he allotted at least one ministerial position to each of the socio-political groupings in his camp . |
| 19 | When the Antwerp market began to contract , he diversified into more risky ventures . |
| 20 | McCallen had problems with the carburration and as a result he never really got into the final practice but unofficially he lapped at over 119 mph only three seconds behind the overall leader Carl Fogarty . |
| 21 | With the outbreak of civil war in 1642 , he moved into both military and naval administration . |
| 22 | In the second and third years , he concentrated on more sustained studies through arranging short and Terminal courses under Chapter III arrangements as well as continuing to provide many village lectures . |
| 23 | He referred to only one of the Opposition 's policies that would wreak havoc on the British economy . |
| 24 | On two occasions during this period he told at least four people that money had been found by her body . |
| 25 | To the list of writers who developed psychoses Karlsson adds , among others , Hugo , Scott , Tolstoi , Pope , and Poe and puts the overall incidence of such disorders among the individuals he surveyed at around 30 per cent ; a staggeringly high figure , given that , taken together , non-organic forms of psychosis are usually quoted as carrying a lifetime risk of about 5 per cent . |
| 26 | He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters . |
| 27 | When he came to about twenty minutes later he could n't get out . |
| 28 | ‘ He came at about seven . |
| 29 | Tony Adams , the Arsenal skipper , says : ‘ Niall and I are great friends and have been since he came over here 10 years ago . |
| 30 | ‘ He came in here one night with a very angry look , ’ said store boss Mike Brent . |