Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet .
2 Colin Mackie , 26 , a self-confessed former heroin addict , told the court that Murray had injected him with heroin during drug-taking sessions while he was working as a tyre fitter with Kenway .
3 He took out the remaining hand-grenade that Frankie had given him in New Orleans and slipped that into his inside pocket .
4 Alec Guinness introduced him to the audience after the first night , although such was his nervousness that Sherek had to push him onto the stage and , when a photographer blew a flash bulb in his face just as he was about to speak , he muttered " Oh my God " .
5 Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken .
6 I suspected that Fenella had bullied him into it .
7 I realised that Harold had appointed him in order to maintain a keener watch on what the BBC was saying about people .
8 The papers to which he had referred , and which he kept in a tin box underneath his bed , contained an unexpected coda to this small adventure — an unfortunate little postscript which reminded me how Captain Scott must have felt when he reached the South Pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten him to it .
9 He was planning on a shave and a slow , hot bath ; he might even throw in some of that stuff that Wayne had bought him for his birthday , that came in a dubious-looking novelty bottle shaped like a tiger 's head .
10 It was said that nature had endowed him with a penis some thirteen inches long and an insatiable sexual appetite — so much so that even in his teens his physical attributes were the delight of many local girls .
11 He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning .
12 At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous .
13 Yeah that 's right , very good , so nine , by pouring out this holy spirit and Jesus , Jehovah was er knighting him or appointing him to be the king of this coming kingdom , thing thus have anointed with the spirit , Jesus became the Messiah , which words in the Hebrew and Greek languages mean appoint , a anointed , therefore he became in fact Jesus Christ or Jesus the United , so , so it was Apostle Peter spoke of Jesus who was from Nazareth , Nazareth , how about anointed them , but all the spirit and power , also by his baptism and water , Jesus was presenting himself to God , to carry out the work that God had sent him to earth to do , what was that important work ?
14 The way he worked upsides her other ride , Spooked , showed that Bill had trained him to perfection .
15 I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene .
16 The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded .
17 But before they reached the other side , Caesar cried out to Cassius for help , so Cassius had to carry him to safety .
18 Tight in his hand he held the silver coin that Dad had given him at the front door .
19 During 1915 Modigliani came to feel that Max had betrayed him by siding with Beatrice .
20 He fought against the sensation that Molland had strapped him on a sort of conveyor belt in a factory that processed death .
21 The great painter Albrecht Dürer rejoiced that Luther had delivered him from a ‘ terrible distress , ’ from bondage to rituals that the Catholic clergy prescribed as necessary for salvation .
22 Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer .
23 And Preston very dubious , because she did n't look like she had a baby in her tummy and experience had taught him to be very sceptical about any information his family gave out , especially on the subject of babies and where they came from .
24 Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award .
25 After Hocazade 's appointment to the kazaskerlik some years later , his father and brothers came to visit him in Edirne .
26 Alexei guessed that if Burun wished to discredit him with Artai he only had to link his name with any one of the intrigues which were a constant background to the life of the court .
27 It was the first time for a long while that Tommy had come into the dining rooms for his morning break and Carrie had spotted him from the window as he pulled up outside and climbed down wearily from his horsecart .
28 Frankie had been told to dress in a hurry , and Sweetheart had taken him to the park near the old railway bridge in Horton Park Avenue .
29 On the Monday , though , Slater had been in the small steamy cafe and sandwich bar on Red Lion Street which he usually spent most of his term days in , and Graham had supplied him with cups of tea and expensive rounds of smoked salmon on granary bread while Slater slowly , teasingly , told him about Sara .
30 Barnes has been suffering from a hamstring strain , but he was able to train on Thursday and yesterday , and Robson had expected him to be fit for Chorzow , where a point will be enough to take England to Italy as winners of Group Two .
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