Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some , like David Young , who had abandoned the law for a career as a property developer , she put in charge of great statutory bodies , in his case eventually raising him to the Cabinet as Lord Young of Graffham . |
| 2 | He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation . |
| 3 | Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post . |
| 4 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 5 | Two months later found him near the edge of the track at Cadwell Park , in Lincolnshire , as racing cars flashed past at over 100mph . |
| 6 | We sent the boat out to buy him in the first place . |
| 7 | The film director claimed his former lover regularly rang him in the middle of the night to scare him . |
| 8 | And when Rufus 's arms grabbed him from behind , ostensibly of course just to duck him under the surface , he found himself resisting in a way that Rufus recognized as real resistance and let him go . |
| 9 | Mark Hazell has been granted a judicial review of Avon County Council 's decision not to place him in the residential home of his own choosing , Milton Heights in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | Moore 's authoritative style of play soon brought him to the notice of the England management . |
| 11 | A parliamentary inquiry eventually cleared him of the allegations in June , but investigations continued into the conduct of Erik Ninn Hansen , who had been Justice Minister at the time . |
| 12 | After a few weeks , Mr Sowerberry decided that he liked Oliver 's appearance enough to train him in the undertaking business . |
| 13 | By embracing rather than plundering elements of jazz , soul and funk , Jamiroquai 's debut single on Acid Jazz , ‘ When You Gon na Learn ’ , served as the perfect foretaste to his future work and in the process instantly distanced him from the retro-funk-by-numbers style of his less talented peers . |
| 14 | The social workers even followed him into the bathroom . |
| 15 | It would also threaten the stability of the polity itself , and Gloucester 's public pronouncements in this period consistently present him as the defender of his brother 's achievements against the machinations of the Woodvilles . |
| 16 | It would also threaten the stability of the polity itself , and Gloucester 's public pronouncements in this period consistently present him as the defender of his brother 's achievements against the machinations of the Woodvilles . |
| 17 | Dorchester may have been an extreme case , but throughout England , there were hard-working , anxious , godly folk whose rage with their king eventually led him to the scaffold at Whitehall . |
| 18 | The king personally rewarded him with the Victorian Order , fourth class , but broke off relations when the disgruntled recipient of the decoration returned it the following day . |
| 19 | In countries , such as Japan , Belgium , and even Ireland , his runs have made him a well known figure , but he remained one of Britain 's unsung sporting heroes , until a magnificent record-breaking run at the NALGO 6-day race last October finally brought him into the headlines . |
| 20 | It was perfectly quiet ( no sounds ever reached him from the rest of the Tolbooth ; it was hard to believe that it existed , the street below was more real ) . |
| 21 | She turned her head slightly to look him in the face . |
| 22 | He also visited another important garden in the area , Meerburg , where the gardener kindly instructed him on the cultivation of pineapples — his employer , M. de la Court , was among the first to grow this fruit successfully in Europe . |
| 23 | Martha lovingly supported him to the end , friend and housekeeper for 25 years . |
| 24 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 25 | Picked up by Taxi George , he was steered successfully to the Filanta hotel , where the receptionist duly assigned him to the ‘ hot ’ suite . |
| 26 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 27 | Daniel Marsh usually met him at the station , but today Nahum was early . |
| 28 | The dog invariably followed him to the door , as if she expected , with each visitor , that her master would be back . |
| 29 | He was pursued by the customer who had been threatened , who caught up with him and knocked him off his motorcycle ; the offender then threatened him with the gun . |
| 30 | Fearless and aggressive , Jack become one of Palace 's youngest captains when he took over as skipper in 1956 , his determination and enthusiasm admirably suiting him for the role . |