Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He never worried about exhibiting his work : never came to steal from neighbours ; he lived in and for himself ’ . |
| 2 | He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature : his last few weeks before his death from cancer , which he fought uncomplainingly and with great courage , were spent in devising an entertainment , ‘ The French Revolution through British Eyes ’ , for the RSL . |
| 3 | He announced afterwards that for the first time " active negotiations " had begun . |
| 4 | ‘ It is Ianthe Broome ? ’ he asked tentatively and with no trace of foreign accent . |
| 5 | Well , cos with him being on night , I do n't suppose he got up till about |
| 6 | He got out but before going to knock at the door , crossed the road and stood for a moment contemplating Ivy Cottage . |
| 7 | He had tried to sleep when he got home but to no avail . |
| 8 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 9 | Apart from calling Blum ‘ the most dangerous man in Indo-China ’ de Lattre complained of all the ‘ missionary young men ’ the US was sending to Vietnam , of the way in which they undermined the idea of the French Union and , as he obviously had time to read the reports as soon as they were sent , he objected strenuously and in person to US correspondents who did not share his more exalted view of France 's mission in Indo-China . |
| 10 | He drew closer till at last his forehead was leaning forward , touching Hector 's . |
| 11 | As an alternative , he tried on occasions to tax them in assemblies which were not parliaments nor yet independent clerical gatherings , but he alarmed the clergy either by the writs which he used then or by the presence of his lay councillors at the meetings . |
| 12 | The sky had now stripped back to blue as he entered slowly and with a surge of pleasure into the cut of Buttermere . |
| 13 | ‘ Never write an angry letter ! ’ he exclaimed decisively and by way of offering advice to us all . |
| 14 | It was there as confirmation of the course he sailed rather than as an ever-present guide , as were the slowly changing figures on the Loran 's small screen on the bulkhead beside the companionway . |
| 15 | Mr Thomas was from Hastings where he practised privately and at the Royal East Sussex Hospital as a heart surgeon . |
| 16 | A bad accident at Mosport nearly cost him his life but he came back and on his return to England joined the new Honda team . |
| 17 | And his brother he was in the er Spanish Civil War , he was an officer , he was a miner , but he left to join the the Spanish Brigade and er he came back and of course but after the General Strike they would n't neither set him nor his brother on the pits you know . |
| 18 | He banged on and on : ‘ Preparation , forward planning , attention to detail — it 's just like batting . |
| 19 | He learnt then and in later practice how to jump into a bobbing canoe , letting his feet give under him without capsizing the frail Folbot . |
| 20 | There had been no unexplained nights away and no displays of petulance , and when he set off through the gates of his house he drove slowly and with care . |
| 21 | had a yard there and an old building , that 's where he had , that 's where he operated from and he used to get all this second hand timber demolition timber from Liverpool and Berkenhead and all that and he reckoned then that for every hundred pound he spent on demolition he had a thousand pound back |
| 22 | It is no defence that he acted reasonably if in fact the goods are not reasonably fit for their purpose . |
| 23 | In the same instant , however , Grant was caught a numbing blow on his left shoulder , as Angel One reacted to his move with uncanny speed , chopping down at him as he hurtled past and over him . |
| 24 | He climbed up and at some point he was beckoned in . |
| 25 | He danced round and round Mary , and sang a funny little song about Miss Mary and her stupid flowers . |
| 26 | By means of a strip of lead called a leaden tape , which he pressed around and into the fillets and hollows with his finger and thumb , he transferred the exact contour of each moulding to his drawing … |
| 27 | With his unbuttoned shirt hanging outside his trousers , and his bare feet thrust into his shoes , he clattered out and down the stairs , his socks clutched ridiculously in his hand . |
| 28 | He walked up and down the track , waiting impatiently ; he had made his mind up , he was going to lie down in front of the train . |
| 29 | He walked round and round his small chamber , haranguing the walls . |
| 30 | He walked round and round the circle , singing a strange song . |