Example sentences of "he [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 2 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 3 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 4 | He helped everybody in the local community . |
| 5 | He risked everything at the short 15th after his five-iron tee shot finished among the rocks . |
| 6 | In doing so , he achieved something of the economic uplift associated with a move to the West , with little of the attendant culture shock , a fact which Glasgow can take as a kick in the groin or a pat on the back . |
| 7 | At the inquest into his death and those he killed the sergeant said he saw nothing in the dead officer to make him question his state of mind . |
| 8 | For several minutes he saw nothing in the shimmering haze of the plain . |
| 9 | He saw everything through a red mist . |
| 10 | He knew something of the new music , but neither the movement as a whole nor Wagner 's particular achievement within it meant anything special to him . |
| 11 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 12 | He knew nothing of the other facts and , as he continued relentlessly , Jenna was pleased she had not told him . |
| 13 | But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving . |
| 14 | In Green 's Tourist 's New Guide 1819 , p.4. he says ‘ The writer was encouraged to the pursuit of painting by Mr. West , but why he knows not , his few sketches were humble , his mind untutored , and he knew none of the requisite theories , but geometry , perspective and architecture ’ . |
| 15 | After a while he boiled something in the blackened tin suspended over the fire , stirring it with a white peeled twig , and then plunging the tin into the stream to cool it . |
| 16 | Instead of the authorised prayer , he recited one for the dead . |
| 17 | The speed of descent must have cut down the exposure to any residual gas since he felt none of the earlier weirdness as he approached the still sealed engine room door . |
| 18 | He attended none of the leading schools , nor did he go to university . |
| 19 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 20 | Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper . |
| 21 | He had nothing but the highest praise for you , sir . |
| 22 | He was a short , precise man with a small moustache which reminded me a little of Hitler 's , but he had none of the German leader 's belligerence . |
| 23 | Whatever authority it had , came not from the power of the speaker — he had none in the conventional sense — but from the cogency and relevance of what he said and the hope it inspired . |
| 24 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 25 | He said something about an insolent pup . ’ |
| 26 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 27 | He said nothing of the Soviet plan . |
| 28 | He said everyone in the front trenches was splashed with blood from the German trenches . |
| 29 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |
| 30 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |