Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , clutching his belly with both hands and sucking his buttocks tightly together , he made one more panic-stricken dash for the little cubicle . |
| 2 | After this he made them both some cocoa and began the first of the Just So stories . |
| 3 | The most romantic period of the whole adventure now followed as , often resembling a ragged beggar more than a would-be king , the young prince moved across to the west coast , hiding in caves and foresters ' huts , until at the end of June he made his most famous journey , ‘ over the sea to Skye ’ , posing as an Irish sewing maid . |
| 4 | On Easter Saturday 1982 he made his most famous deal , picking up troubled Chelsea Football Club when it was in danger of closure — for £1 . |
| 5 | In the two months Coleman spent at Eurame , he met him there three times , including one occasion when ‘ Nazzie ’ volunteered the information that he was on his way to Houston with a load . |
| 6 | On the ramshackle desolate station at Latimer Road he met them dutifully changing cars , but instead of joining the Safeguards , found himself offering Jed and Abelard , his pet Harris hawk , a home at the School . |
| 7 | It was characteristic of him that his last work , and his greatest apart from Justification and Reconciliation , was a three-volume History of Pietism ( 1880–6 ) , in which he applied his very considerable erudition to demonstrating that Pietism represented the improper infusion into German Protestantism of alien , Roman Catholic conceptions of the Christian life . |
| 8 | Then in 1929 , he announced his most astonishing discovery — that of what immediately became known as ‘ Hubble 's law of redshifts ’ It was the empirical discovery of the expansion of the Universe . |
| 9 | Would that explain why he asked me so few questions , took my unlikely presence and knowledge so much for granted ? |
| 10 | Oh I must n't lose that , my grandson bought me that in Greece Cos I 'm a pipe smoker and er , but it 's not a Zippo , and he got it very cheap English you see , but I 've knackered him you see , because I , he thinks I 've still got that , but I , I , I bought a Zippo one , and it 's , it 's the hippo , the Zippo one that 's in there the other one was fucking useless , well , it lasted for a couple of months , a few months , but er |
| 11 | Mind you , he phoned you late last time . |
| 12 | He grasped her suddenly nerveless fingers in his hand , sending her a smile with enough voltage to make her weak at the knees . |
| 13 | I , I , I think he described them as light granite , but , but actually of a manmade material , which is being used at the moment in Nottingham on a something called a heritage walk which takes you up to the lace market in Nottingham . |
| 14 | During the revolutions of 1848 he used his seemingly impregnable position to repress rebellion in Romania , to restore Habsburg control in Hungary , and to prevent constitutional change in Germany . |
| 15 | The rumour that he used his notoriously smooth tongue to get himself recognized as seneschal of France suggests that he was aiming at Anjou , since this was a title claimed by the Counts of Anjou . |
| 16 | If it does , you will also remain in the son , and in the father and this is what he promised us even eternal life . |
| 17 | He visited her there one evening , Bishop Jon and Eochaid in tow , and the three men talked without ceasing , before food and through food and after it , Bishop Jon making notes in his own hand on a slate with a stylus that squealed . |
| 18 | He told me about two photographers who used to work together . |
| 19 | Watching the flames shoot up the chimney , he told himself firmly that marriage was out of the question . |
| 20 | Then he bundled her now rosy body into her dry shirt and sat her down on the sleeping-bag to vigorously rub her hair dry . |
| 21 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 22 | In the next decade he composed his most notable work . |
| 23 | WHEN Italy 's President Francesco Cossiga was first elected in 1985 , he compared his largely ceremonial job to that of an English monarch . |
| 24 | He secured his most spectacular coup in 1872 when he won a concession from the shah of Persia covering the exploitation of all industrial and mineral rights . |
| 25 | ‘ He drove me home that night . |
| 26 | He licked his suddenly dry lips . |
| 27 | He telephoned me late that evening — when they began to worry about her — asking if she 'd been here . |
| 28 | He allowed them just enough milk to supplement the grass they were learning to eat and then pushed them aside , replacing their mouths on the teats with his fingers , squeezing the milk in short squirts into a frothing bowl on the ground below . |
| 29 | We do n't know how Beethoven conducted his music or how he would have conducted if he had been able to hear everything that was going on , but we know from Brahms 's letters that he allowed himself sometimes great flexibility . |
| 30 | Here he discovered his most enduring sources of sexual pleasure — pornography and masturbation . |