Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the forest the Doctor discovers the Daleks have taken the piece he sabotaged from the TARDIS . |
| 2 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |
| 3 | … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién . |
| 4 | With these words he ran at the Husayn twins and started to belabour them with his plastic sword . |
| 5 | Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 . |
| 6 | Henry died twelve days later , and much of Eliot 's time during the two months he stayed in the United States was spent in winding up his affairs . |
| 7 | But in February he returned to the Rhineland to deal with yet another raid by Louis the German there ( this time the emperor drove his son out so forcefully that he had to seek refuge with the Slavs before making his way back to Bavaria ) . |
| 8 | Thus the star of the show is the mock-up of a banquet complete with the extraordinary salt cellars he commissioned from the Regency silversmith Paul Storr — a crab and winkle here , a triton or braying donkey there , all of gold . |
| 9 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 10 | At the first rehearsal he played through the Brahms Second and changed nothing . |
| 11 | During the war he served with the R.A.F. and before joining Douglas Reyburn he was involved with retail grocery business . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England . |
| 13 | Yet his ability was obvious the moment he arrived from the West Indies and enrolled , aged seven , at a primary school by the old White City track near QPR 's ground . |
| 14 | Jacob Cohen had promised to send Charlie over to Chelsea the moment he reappeared in the Whitechapel Road . |
| 15 | Indeed , the author recalls at the EPP Conference he attended in the Reichstag in Berlin before the last European elections , a leading German politician advocating a federal Europe in vivid emotional terms : ‘ My heart rages with passion at the thought of a Single Government and a Single Parliament ’ . |
| 16 | A note to William Watson suggests that there might be a case of mistaken identity in an abstract he presented from the Flora Sibirica on Sphondylium vulgare hirsutum [ i.e. Heracleum sphondylium ] . |
| 17 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 18 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 19 | Despite his disappointments he starred for the South African side which played as Springboks against the Juniors late last season . |
| 20 | When Zen judged that he had enough for his purposes he pointed to the Fiats . |
| 21 | For the next twelve years he cruised in the North Sea and Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa . |
| 22 | During the six years he spent as the AAT 's Public Relations Officer , their membership rose from 30,000 to 100,000 . |
| 23 | But on the day he came to the TWW studio to be interviewed , he brought her with him and I thought what a shy , pleasant girl she was . |
| 24 | The next day he appeared at the Uxbridge Magistrates ’ Court where he admitted having the drug in his possession . |
| 25 | During the return voyage he died in the Mediterranean 20 February 1929 and was buried at sea . |
| 26 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 27 | In August he returned to the Maldives , saying that he was willing to answer questions about the affairs of the STO . |
| 28 | McIllvanney was a Protestant bully from the Shankill Road in Belfast , who had learned his thuggery in the hard school of Northern Ireland 's prejudices , honed it in the British army , and now put it to whatever good use he wanted in the Bahamas . |
| 29 | From France he went to the Alps and Italy , and in 1870–1 he made his first visit to America , where he may have encountered his father , as well as many unfamiliar trees and shrubs . |
| 30 | As vice-president of the Union he went to the United States ( September-November 1925 ) as part of a debating team of three , all of whom were later well-known in public life . |