Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He vigorously defended against all comers the enormous expense of bringing La Scala to Scotland . |
| 2 | He apparently continued in this office until 1655 , when , with essentially unchanged duties , he was appointed one of the two chamberlains of the Exchequer and keeper of its records . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He constantly fiddled with that badge of office , a ready-made , multicoloured , bow tie , as he talked to Jane . |
| 5 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 6 | He just brought along some typing . |
| 7 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 8 | ‘ I have a business engagement , ’ she excused , and wondered for a moment if Lubor had guessed that her business engagement for that evening was with his employer , or if perhaps he already knew from some office discussion with him that she was dining with Ven ? |
| 9 | He drove as he always drove in those days , well , but far too fast . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 12 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 13 | He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority . |
| 14 | Both have been chronicled in this book , and perhaps we can say now of Eliot what he once said of another poet , " We also understand the poetry better when we know more about the man . " |
| 15 | He once said of this discovery : |
| 16 | He also wrote at this time The Advocate ( 1652 ) , in defence of the Navigation Act , and a related economic tract , Free Ports ( 1652 ) . |
| 17 | He also appealed to all Beninois to return to work to lay the basis for economic revival , while the transitional government implemented an economic structural adjustment programme and negotiated for external financial resources . |
| 18 | He also put in that air-vent on the wall between his room and this one . ’ |
| 19 | In order to broaden interests he also invited to these courses experts from other disciplines : musicians , historians , gallery owners and poets . |
| 20 | He also worked for several years with the Lutheran World Federation . |
| 21 | He also decided at that moment , to his own amazement , that somehow , some time , he would have her as his wife . |
| 22 | A few weeks later , he also reported with some amusement how he had involved a colleague ( not a member of the group ) in discussion about another pupil when he had caught both himself and his colleague ‘ fixing ’ the child inadvertently in his bad behaviour . |
| 23 | Then he put this on and he instantly transformed into another character who did a mime to a piece of Baroque music . |
| 24 | As he swung it into Charing Cross Road he nearly collided with another car . |
| 25 | He later eloped with another girl . ’ |
| 26 | Naturally , he listens to recommendations from the local councils , as he clearly did on this occasion , but he was absolutely right not to adopt all their suggestions . |
| 27 | Nor , for once , did he enclose his curriculum vitae — which he now contemplated with some discomfort . |
| 28 | He had a number of set speeches which he frequently rehearsed for such occasions . |
| 29 | The miniature flute was the only object Carrefour retained from his childhood , and the only one which he even remembered with any clarity . |
| 30 | He was glad that he had dismissed Palottino , although the Neapolitan had made it dear that he strongly disapproved of this mania for walking . |