Example sentences of "he [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One often reads of jealousies , of quarrels , of friendships , of instances of patronage , of pique and of loyalty which illuminate some aspect of a man 's character , of the nature of the society in which he lived or of the system in which he worked . |
| 2 | But he realised that for a man like Lancaster — trusting and timid — the betrayal would have been much , much worse . |
| 3 | Then he realised that for the first time he was looking into the front of a hurricane . |
| 4 | He realised that for the first time in weeks he had not thought of school , Murray , Fairbrother or the wretched affair of the letter . |
| 5 | He realised that despite the money he would miss this place , the friendly faces , even the work that blinded him . |
| 6 | He realised that in the centre of the soft fake torso was a hard real butcher 's hook . |
| 7 | He was about to go back to the company when he realised that in the middle of the town was a house where an old man lived , exactly where the company were planning to build their new station ; and the old man was refusing to sell . " |
| 8 | One non-commissioned officer , writing home , said he presumed that by the time his letter arrived ‘ the bells throughout the whole of Germany would be announcing the victory over the mightiest enemy of civilization . |
| 9 | He beamed and in a while went on , ‘ Except for the engineers , the same crew will stay with the train to Vancouver ! ’ |
| 10 | He agreed that without a friendly settlement of the candidate question and a unified opposition campaign , the Janata Dal could not hope to win . |
| 11 | Furthermore , he agreed that after the trials and tribulations of the previous 29 months since taking over from Bobby Robson , he finally feels at ease with himself and the job . |
| 12 | He realized that to a materialistic society losing a wife to a millionaire hardly counted as failure . |
| 13 | Complaints had been received from local residents that their wash-houses were being abused , and he expected that by the end of his beat at 6 a.m. he would be busy enough . |
| 14 | On 4 June he announced that in the forthcoming referendum and elections Algeria would have a single electoral college , rather than the old dual college system , which had guaranteed an over-representation for Europeans . |
| 15 | He recovered but at the age of 22 was left almost completely bald and had to wear a wig , a fashion he discarded in the heat of India . |
| 16 | So that , when cornered , he admitted that over the year he had become affected by simple , inexplicable bouts of fear . |
| 17 | Interest increased when he revealed that among the types of RNA successfully attacked was RNA from the HIV virus which causes Aids . |
| 18 | He found that in the neutral condition , where no particular inference was confirmed or disconfirmed by subsequent information , all potential inferences were falsely identified as having occurred in a passage about 25 per cent of the time . |
| 19 | In particular , he found that in an organisation committed to consultative management , a superior may become more and more reluctant to exercise his authority . |
| 20 | He found that from the intersection of Fleming 's Cross-cut with the vein , the level had been taken S.E. along it for 40 fathoms , at the forehead of which was a cross-course which cut off the lode . |
| 21 | This solution , which he regarded as amongst the most valuable and characteristic of all his works ( Hume 1981 p 165 ) and which had originally been suggested to him by his brother as the plan for a large house to be occupied by workmen ( Stephen , 1900 p 201 ) , he published in pamphlets entitled Panopticon or the Inspection House and Panopticon Postscripts Parts 1 and 11 . |
| 22 | He described that as a substantial real-terms increase and a generous package of support . |
| 23 | In addition to relief forms , which he described as in no way different from those which might have been expected from water action , there are great waste fans at the foot of the Andes in the desert . |
| 24 | He turned now and led her towards the door , but there he stopped and in a quiet voice said , ‘ Now , do what I tell you . |
| 25 | On Jan. 6 , as part of a televised speech , he had described the liberation of Palestine as the main objective in the struggle , while reaffirming nevertheless that " the return of Kuwait to the motherland is a reality " , that the Iraqi army should prepare for " the mother of battles " , and that the war would reach " every struggler and fighter whose hand can reach out to harm aggressors in the whole world " ; on Jan. 9 , when an International Islamic Popular Conference opened in Baghdad , he promised that in the event of war the Americans would " swim in their own blood " . |
| 26 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 27 | Looking back wistfully three decades later , he recalled that during the summer months the Office followed the Law Courts in observing what were called ‘ vacation hours ’ . |
| 28 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 29 | ‘ He was rather like a new-born baby when he came because of the lack of stimulation , ’ she said . |
| 30 | He noted that despite the fact that its glory lay mainly in the nature of the orchestral score ‘ one could start afresh with a version for piano and still do a Pelleas of great vitality ’ . |