Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1456–8 he was certainly in England , for he made over all his property to others by letters patent ; he was at the time verger to the collegiate chapel of St Stephen , Westminster . |
| 2 | In February 1981 , after fifteen months hors de combat , he made yet another reappearance , this time in the valuable Whitbread Trial Chase at Ascot . |
| 3 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 4 | He made so many plans for this wedding . |
| 5 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 6 | His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one . |
| 7 | Pete must have dropped onto his bed without undressing , he made so little sound . |
| 8 | Walking on his hands , he made hardly any noise , only a carpet-slipper slapping of palms against the floor . |
| 9 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 10 | He made far more play than his father ( or other ninth-century Carolingians ) with the penalty of the harmscara — a public humiliation imposed at the ruler 's discretion which involved the victim 's carrying a saddle on his back . |
| 11 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , he lived here all his life . ’ |
| 13 | She said it because Rory was in her mind , and he had told her he lived not many miles from Belleeks , at a little crossroads in the lower hills . |
| 14 | He lived so much within his own head that the times at which he ate and slept were entirely arbitrary . |
| 15 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 16 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 17 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 18 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 19 | He realised how much he longed to wear that splendid sober regalia and take up a whip to drive a team of four horses . |
| 20 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 21 | [ I ] t seems to me much more likely that Lord Hardwicke LC adopted [ the construction argued for by Mackenzie ] than that he laid down some new constitutional principle that the court had the power to give relief against the provision of a statute . |
| 22 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |
| 23 | Athelstan was an ‘ emperor ’ ( if he was ) because he ruled over several kingdoms ; the kings of León-Castile in the eleventh and twelfth centuries were sometimes called emperors for a slightly different reason , that they had aspirations to rule over other peoples . |
| 24 | Although Keating once again expressed optimism that the recession was bottoming out , he ruled out any further cuts in interest rates in the immediate future . |
| 25 | I do n't give a damn about Ivan 's ridiculous rag , said Charles , but of course he did , he cared much more than she did , and with reason , for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment , whereas Charles always got it in the neck : ‘ HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG ’ had been the headline of Ivan 's latest piece of gossip , which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles 's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors , laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge . |
| 26 | But he always gave the impression that he cared much more about people than things — even if that meant falling , as Pat would have it , for the occasional sob story . |
| 27 | He passed along several narrow alleyways , the tight , over-crowded vicoli that led towards Via Crispi where his pensione was situated . |
| 28 | He produced as many copies as possible in the economical A state , stopping the press at once to rejig the type . |
| 29 | In 1864 he sold over half a million prints . |
| 30 | he sold off all his stock |