Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] he " in BNC.

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1 Kambiz Atabai , a slim , good-looking and asked him if he would share his secret and Dr Shakhar said by all means .
2 The Queen delighted in his preaching and made him Dean of Westminster .
3 He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’
4 So , he got me handbag and took off with me bottle of DFs and me book from the social and said he 'd give it me back once he 'd cashed enough to pay the bread off .
5 Managed to let him know about our Social and sold him a book of Christmas Draw tickets .
6 Raymond Williams has objected to the ‘ limiting ’ associations ’ which have attached to Stephen Duck 's name : ‘ Stephen Duck … had written one fine poem before the court and the church and neo-classicism patronised and emasculated him . ’
7 He looked embarrassed and said he did n't have the faintest idea .
8 His own closest friends looked embarrassed and avoided him .
9 Eliot 's own reactions to this meeting are not known , although it must have profoundly embarrassed and unnerved him — not least because further public encounters of that kind were always possible .
10 In addition , having listened repeatedly to the cassette he felt much happier in himself , realizing that the stammer which so embarrassed and distressed him was not going to prove incurable .
11 Thus that dappled skin , peeled from a mutant , both reminded him of how he had been orphaned and reproached him too .
12 First Benny had turned her back on him in public and told him to go home without her after he had driven up especially to collect her .
13 How unsettled and agitated he had been when they last had visited the Springall house .
14 That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad .
15 She said it was highly possible that had he received a blood transfusion his life might have been saved .
16 These new words can be proved by taking statements from an aggrieved person(s) to say how harassed , alarmed or distressed he was .
17 The expectations on him to perform as a wit at the Painters ' Table further drained his energy and if feeling jaded or bored he drank a lot .
18 He employed the wry , self-deprecation that made him a refreshing presence on the campaign trail .
19 But she told the boy his offences were so serious that had he been 15 , not 14 , he 'd almost certainly have received a custodial sentence .
20 Shackel became indignant and said he would fetch a magistrate and complain about the Chief Constable 's attitude , which he did .
21 Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ?
22 He says did n't realise it was so serious and sent him back to class with an ice pack .
23 The next morning Benjamin rose early and said he wished to watch the clerks at work in the scriptorium .
24 She felt sad and hoped he felt the same .
25 Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek .
26 Part of the cuff was visible and reminded him of Middy sleeping under the quilt .
27 He was only half-listening ; the Major 's constant tirades against Durkin bored and irritated him .
28 Not just because of not just because certain men at a certain place were sinful and crucified him unjustly not just because of sin but he died for the sin of the world , taking our sin in our place .
29 Septimus Coffin , with a little bow of the head , retired and left him to it .
30 So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up .
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