Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] he [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 2 | The fact that DEC plucked him out of its largest and most profitable systems businesses and split that down the middle so he could run the NT operation is proof that DEC expects significant results out of NT . |
| 3 | And although Hick hit him out of the attack briefly , producing a second cameo of the series which included an extraordinary one-handed straight six , Patel returned downwind to sneak one through before the Zimbabwean could reach a maiden Test half-century . |
| 4 | But Shuckburgh 's long exposure to the whims and sensibilities of Eden and Churchill led him on at least one occasion to comment favourably on Eisenhower and Dulles as political leaders . |
| 5 | Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 . |
| 6 | It wo n't have escaped anybody 's attention that the Indian spinner Anil Kumble rose to the dizzy heights of No 3 in the world thanks to the vain attempts of Robin Smith and Co to fathom him out during the disastrous tour of the subcontinent . |
| 7 | The retirement lasted two year , until McLaren tempted him back to the sport in 1982 and his old skills were soon apparent at Brands Hatch and Watkins Glen , where he returned to winning ways . |
| 8 | The Haldane partisan , Morris , moreover , said openly that he defied Captain Cunningham and all his friends and supporters to remove him again from the town . |
| 9 | As a cross-bencher in the House of Lords he had steered clear of party politics , but his writing and speeches put him firmly on the side of the underdog . |
| 10 | Their patient was a man in his late thirties , and Kathleen recognised him immediately with a sinking heart . |
| 11 | McGee knew of only one way to circle the ring — clockwise — and Denny put him off at will . |
| 12 | Then she has Darren until May picks him up at seven . |
| 13 | The first of the four visitors entered and Nicholson recognised him immediately as Bernard Clinton , the MP . |
| 14 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 15 | Sammy sniffed at the food in the bag and Tom tapped him tenderly on the nose and slung it on his back . |
| 16 | Bruce was still lost in the red mists of temper seven minutes later when Simpson , City 's impressive recruit from Swindon , released White with a splendid pass — and Bruce tracked him almost to the deadball line before scything him down . |
| 17 | In the decade since Mr McGuinness professed to have turned his back on the IRA and to have become a Sinn Fein politician , more than 40 witnesses and statements placed him firmly at the scene of violent incidents — and at the heart of the IRA 's decision-making process . |
| 18 | I would n't be surprised if Rose put him up to it ! ’ |
| 19 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 20 | When Cromwell became Protector in December 1653 Simpson and Feake attacked him ferociously at Allhallows . |
| 21 | When it became obvious that he would not be successful he decided to train as a pharmacist and father set him up in business . ’ |
| 22 | Though the journey from Godolphin 's house in Primrose Hill to the Tabula Rasa 's Tower was short , and Dowd got him up to Highgate on the dot of six , Oscar suggested they drive down through Crouch End then up through Muswell Hill and back to the Tower , so that they 'd arrive ten minutes late . |
| 23 | Against all odds , he regained his health , and Mary pampered him back to fitness for David to win a National Championship on him . |
| 24 | Simon and Marian laid him down on a couch of deer-skins . |
| 25 | Arghatun wo n't arrange the remount herds without your authority , and Wotai backs him up in everything . |
| 26 | Despairing in his heart that anything further could be done to improve the conditions of seafarers , Plimsoll nevertheless continued to work without respite to promote the cause in which he so passionately believed , and did so until illness forced him out of the public scene . |
| 27 | He fails , however , to win Miss Lillerton , who gives her hand to a smooth young curate instead , and Parsons gives him up in disgust . |
| 28 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 29 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 30 | The same day the King died , late in the morning , this mysterious Frenchman hired my husband 's boat and services to take him across to Inverkeithing . |