Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked the softness of silk , the slippery feel of it under his hands as he slowly undressed a woman in a shadowed bedroom . |
| 2 | She watched him covertly while he deftly impaled a wedge of fillet steak on his fork , and put it in his mouth . |
| 3 | He gladly accepted a lift back to Stromness on Venturous and repaid me by filling in some details for my report on the development of the terminal and the Piper Oil Field which would be supplying it . |
| 4 | Dad Ron had by now qualified as an accountant and he eventually landed a job with the local council . |
| 5 | He had his own clergy attached to his cathedral , and gradually he eventually acquired a parish clergy over whom he could sometimes exercise control . |
| 6 | However , his hold on power was weakened by the result and he eventually formed a minority coalition with the Liberals ( Venstre ) . |
| 7 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 8 | There is a reference in a letter from one of his dependents that he eventually took a passage home from Corfu on a naval vessel in 1843 ; and that an 1851 census shows that he was living with his wife and two of his daughters at Longhorsley , his birthplace . |
| 9 | Very quickly , however , his superiors recognized his talent for understanding and winning the goodwill of Africans , as when he successfully resolved a dispute with the rulers of Old Calabar , upon which the settlement was largely dependent for foodstuffs . |
| 10 | At home , he successfully advocated a return to fiscal orthodoxy , ‘ sound money ’ , and the gold standard . |
| 11 | He also experimented with lighter-than-air flight : he wrote three papers on airships in the Philosophical Magazine ( February 1816–July 1817 ) of Alexander Tilloch [ q.v. ] , and in 1820 he successfully flew a model airship at Brompton . |
| 12 | He also built several handsome examples in masonry ; and , most important , at the Ouseburn and Willington Dene bridges ( 1836–9 , demolished ) on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway and in a number of subsequent examples he successfully employed a system of laminated timber arches , which , for a short time , was widely imitated in railway-bridge construction . |
| 13 | Despite everything he had drunk already that night he badly wanted a brandy — and a large one at that . |
| 14 | To move over from religion into art with his newly liberated soul , he badly needed a bridge — a Dutch bridge . |
| 15 | Armed with some facts and figures , he confidentially approached a number of very senior civil servants within the Department of the Environment . |
| 16 | It was Banting , the crown undertaker , who provided the model for the future ; for he rarely saw a corpse , contracting out at every stage of the proceedings . |
| 17 | Amongst all the abuse , he especially valued a letter from Swinburne , a fellow-sufferer at the hands of critics , in which he praised the novel as beautiful and terrible in its pathos . |
| 18 | He apparently wrote a continuation of the unfinished commentary of Aquinas on Aristotle 's Perihermeneias , as well as a continuation of Aquinas 's commentary on Aristotle 's De generatione et corruptione . |
| 19 | Secondly he is concerned for the church in Rome , a church that he has never visited , though he obviously knew a lot of the leaders there . |
| 20 | He obviously made a habit of this . |
| 21 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 22 | He henceforth had a bicycle . |
| 23 | He gently pushed a lock of hair from her face . |
| 24 | Slowly , still like a conjuror , he gently poured a drop or two in . |
| 25 | Perhaps he only wanted a cigarette , or a couple of bob for the meter . |
| 26 | His plan , with the apparent co-operation of the heiress and owner of the papers , was to write a life of Rudyard Kipling [ q.v. ] , but he unwisely signed a contract with her ( Mrs Bambridge ) which gave her sole control over the book as a condition of full access to the family papers . |
| 27 | He could quite clearly see through it to the crushed grass on which it lay but , when he gingerly touched a scale that was a mere golden sheen on thin air , it felt solid enough . |
| 28 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 29 | He suddenly had a vision of Lee tearing up his note-book and wearing his helmet . |
| 30 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |