Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He vigorously defended against all comers the enormous expense of bringing La Scala to Scotland . |
| 2 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 3 | But his grandfather he only saw in brief glimpses , when James called in the hope of being given a shilling . |
| 4 | He only played in four Tests but the sweater ( and his knotted silk scarf ) became his uniform . |
| 5 | I could no longer talk or laugh freely , as I knew he only approved of serious moods and studies . |
| 6 | ‘ When can we go home ? ’ he suddenly enquired in piercing tones . |
| 7 | He finally returned with two chunks of roughly cut bread , a slab of cheese and a tiny tin jug of milk . |
| 8 | He nevertheless shared with other critics a concern about the untrained , unregulated , and unsupervised adolescent work-force , and found it impossible to separate completely the behaviour of these young workers from the larger problem of unemployment . |
| 9 | He soon got through 90 guilders , which his father thought an excessive amount . |
| 10 | Intended at first for the church , he was sent to Göttingen , but he soon turned to legal studies and the pursuit of mineralogy under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . |
| 11 | He soon turned to Jewish studies , his interest from childhood , when he had a traditional religious education and learned Hebrew from the Cairo Genizah scholar , Jacob Mann . |
| 12 | Mr Logan , 54 , said : ‘ He normally stayed at top hotels . |
| 13 | He needed no telling twice , but alas the episode was fatal to his position at United Racecourses and he thereupon turned to other activities . |
| 14 | He still paid with violent headaches , but it could have been so much worse . |
| 15 | He drove as he always drove in those days , well , but far too fast . |
| 16 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 17 | He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority . |
| 18 | Replaced by a stagestruck girl of fourteen , recruited locally , she would be superficially trained in a matter of hours by the Head Girl then , absolutely terrified out of her wits , be put on stage the same night to pacify the Producer , for having paid for eight costumes for a number , he usually insisted on eight bodies filling them , whether or not they knew the routine . |
| 19 | He also advised on other schemes . |
| 20 | Some of his old friends claim he also flirted with other women and Meli and Marje were not the only ladies in his life . |
| 21 | He completed his studies at St Catharine 's College , Cambridge , which he also represented at various games . |
| 22 | Back from injury , Selby skipper Ray Adamson kicked well for good positions downfield and he also succeeded with three penalties and converted one of scrum half Dave Bramley 's two tries . |
| 23 | The next year he also served for six weeks in Kuwait , with the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , to counter an Iraqi threat . |
| 24 | He also looked about ten years younger . |
| 25 | He also warned of dire consequences such as hyper-inflation if the country failed to maintain a unified budget and a co-ordinated fiscal policy . |
| 26 | In order to broaden interests he also invited to these courses experts from other disciplines : musicians , historians , gallery owners and poets . |
| 27 | He also worked for several years with the Lutheran World Federation . |
| 28 | He also worked in other hospitals in the city and in Fife . |
| 29 | Surviving reports show that he also acted for other litigants during the same period , both in the Common Bench and in eyres . |
| 30 | He also withdrew from presidential elections due to be held on Oct. 16 . |