Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course he needed to finance so improbable a research programme , so he sold his dragons to an Emperor , who had them minced up and served to him garnished with spit-roasted swallows ' tongues , at one of his less important banquets . |
| 2 | A 16-year-old youth with him escaped with minor injuries . |
| 3 | It felt as though the tree he was sitting in and the green leaves all around him belonged to another world altogether and that he was a trespasser who had no right to be where he was . |
| 4 | The man next to him smiled in total agreement . |
| 5 | In the nature of things meadow , grove and stream no longer appeared to him apparelled in celestial light , the glory and the freshness of a dream . |
| 6 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
| 7 | The drawings he made at various ports of call provide the main burden of this show arranged by the Goethe-Institut . |
| 8 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 9 | It traces Alfie 's career on the field with Downpatrick and Ireland and his rise to the top of officialdom 's tree , highlighting the impact he made for essential change in promoting the game and in the need for better communication . |
| 10 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 11 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 12 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 13 | Apart from the inherent implausibility of this claim , Althusser argues that if Marx were to defend it he would be vulnerable to the very criticism which he made of classical economy . |
| 14 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 15 | Recent controversies have resulted in the hearing of a court case against the art historian Professor James Beck from Columbia University in the US , for remarks he made about recent restoration work on a famous Italian sculpture . |
| 16 | SEVE BALLESTEROS yesterday extended the hand of sympathy to Scotland 's leading golfer , Colin Montgomerie , who has been fined £1,000 for comments he made about last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 17 | He made over forty transcriptions of the sonnets ‘ as the best presents I could offer to those , who had in any way won my regard ’ , and in his own poetic experiments of the next few years found an important model in the work of the now-forgotten Wiltshire priest . |
| 18 | He remembered the brackish stream where he had fished for pinkeens with — who was it , Tommy Murtagh and Seanin Carty ? — and the mercifully short walk to the National School that in good weather he made in bare feet over stony roads , with in winter a sod of turf for the schoolroom fire crushing the jam sandwich in his satchel . |
| 19 | Douglas Young reports from the Berlin Film Festival on several exciting discoveries he made among this year 's entries ( and some he wishes he had n't ) |
| 20 | He had two substantial houses ( in London he lived at 27 Queen 's Gate until 1913 , when he bought 93 Eaton Square , a still larger house with — an uncharacteristic touch for Baldwin — a more fashionable address ) and plenty of money with which to run them and do anything else he wanted . |
| 21 | He lived at nearby Whaddon Hall , also built in his beloved Gothic style . |
| 22 | Towards the end of his life he bought Wood House with its estate at Wood Lane , Shepherd 's Bush , where he lived with two cousins , Amelia and Maria Bridge . |
| 23 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |
| 24 | The man claims he was then taken to a boat on the Norfolk Broads , where he lived for two weeks , and then spent a week holed-up in a room at an unknown holiday camp . |
| 25 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 26 | He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’ |
| 27 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 28 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 29 | After a torrid love affair , he lived in abject poverty , telling his story to anyone who would listen for the price of a drink . |
| 30 | He lived in great style with a hundred servants , keeping house ‘ right bounteously ’ — in 1554 his military equipment at Bletchingley alone filled seventeen wagons . |