Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [adj] " 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 | The man next to him smiled in total agreement . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The drawings he made at various ports of call provide the main burden of this show arranged by the Goethe-Institut . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Central to Peter Slade 's theory of child drama was the distinction he made between personal and projected play ( or drama ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He lived at nearby Whaddon Hall , also built in his beloved Gothic style . |
| 15 | After a torrid love affair , he lived in abject poverty , telling his story to anyone who would listen for the price of a drink . |
| 16 | He lived in great style with a hundred servants , keeping house ‘ right bounteously ’ — in 1554 his military equipment at Bletchingley alone filled seventeen wagons . |
| 17 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 18 | He relates a lasting erotic liaison with a certain Mary Parish , an astrologer , cunning woman , and medium , with whom he lived in Long Acre , and by whom he claimed to have had progeny numbering 106 . |
| 19 | But at Allen Street , where he lived in considerable poverty , he insisted on his independence , cooked all his meals on a gas ring in his room and refused to accept any hospitality from Minton . |
| 20 | He lived in considerable squalor and acrimony in a small Putney flat with his ‘ three bitches ’ : Queenie , his ageing Aunt Bunny , and his emotionally unstable sister , Nancy . |
| 21 | He lived in evident poverty , lodging with a cobbler called Morgan , and when his grandchildren came on Sundays to visit ; |
| 22 | The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities . |
| 23 | On 20 January 1744 he reached Paris , and moved on to Gravelines near Dunkirk , where he lived in strict privacy under the name of the Chevalier Douglas . |
| 24 | He lived in beautiful houses , travelled the world in the greatest of comfort , and wanted for nothing . |
| 25 | His concern for the souls of the rich was equalled only by his fear of the impatience of the poor ; he lived in daily fear of revolution . |
| 26 | He was possessed of a calm , reasoned courage in the face of a real danger , but he lived in constant fear of dangers which existed in his brain only " . |
| 27 | He winched in hard and let go the lashings round the rolled bedsheets . |
| 28 | However , what is not generally known by the public is that although you will be designing all these items , the finished work will he commissioned from outside studios in the case of advertisements and print work , while TV commercials will be made by independent production companies . |
| 29 | ' Tuppe , ’ he whispered through clenched teeth . |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ he whispered through gritted teeth . |