Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery . |
| 2 | Thus a buyer 's legal position is better if he made no examination than if he made merely a superficial one . |
| 3 | He made quite a decent job of it too . |
| 4 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 5 | Therefore — rightly claiming that his force was as yet incomplete and most of his field guns not brought up — he made only a token attack on the Russian left , while positioning his troops as they detrained and making his own tactical preparations . |
| 6 | He made only a brief speech to the meeting , described by Bridgeman to Davidson ( who was in the Argentine ) as ‘ a good opening — plain and dignified — and with fewer mannerisms than have recently been apparent , and no apparent nervousness ’ . |
| 7 | He made almost a clean break with the game , except for some local television work . |
| 8 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
| 9 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 10 | Always self-deprecating and modest , he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer , remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes . |
| 11 | He became eventually a conscientious objector . |
| 12 | He became instead a boot and shoe maker . |
| 13 | Thereafter he became almost a father to me . |
| 14 | Bodley was a corresponding member of the Institut de France ( Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques ) , and he was praised by Charles Maurras as the Englishman who knew France , so that ‘ he became almost a Frenchman without ceasing to be an Englishman . ’ |
| 15 | He asked nothing but justice of Heaven , and of man he asked only a fair field ; and his father seeing of how good heart he was , gave him his sword and his blessing . |
| 16 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 17 | He got quite a hefty government . |
| 18 | He got together a serious amount of cash and called a meeting with the skaters to ask them what they wanted ; 3 skaters turned up . |
| 19 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |
| 20 | Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days . |
| 21 | He flung open a pair of doors she had not even noticed in the gloom and revealed the largest room she had ever seen , endlessly high , and filled with the grey light of the sea . |
| 22 | Walking along the top landing , he flung open a door at the end , and stood back for her to enter . |
| 23 | He cobbled together a brunch of cold remains from the fridge , with lemon tea . |
| 24 | He found only a weak negative relationship between the two variables . |
| 25 | Leading scorer Graeme Sharp put Oldham in front after 29 minutes when he headed home a Mark Brennan free-kick . |
| 26 | He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night . |
| 27 | If she were to hum quietly a popular song of the day , or laugh gaily at something which tickled her sense of humour , then he let loose a stream of abuse and insults , shouting hysterically . |
| 28 | Leaning out of the window , he let loose a stream of abuse . |
| 29 | He let only a moment go by before filling a teaspoon full of caviar and feeding it to her . |
| 30 | Two other traits Charles may have owed to the influence of his father Louis the Pious , though he pursued both a good deal further than Louis . |