Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tanaka 's latest works are the culmination of a process that has brought him from the flat and serial minimalism of lines of white cement blocks to such imposing works as ‘ Scenery comes vertical ’ , a bronze obelisk placed in front of a painting depicting the course of the Nile . |
| 2 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 3 | The storms that threatened to pluck him from the summit where he stood barely rippled the grey waters of the lakes that were strung like pearls along the centre of the grassland far below . |
| 4 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 5 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 6 | Manuel had quietly melted away , perhaps to leave the stage clear for Andy , perhaps to grieve alone at the cruel injustice that had robbed him of the top prize . |
| 7 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 8 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 9 | The police car that had followed him to the Windorah was still parked across the road . |
| 10 | It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat . |
| 11 | He had served twenty-four years in the US House of Representatives , including nine as Minority Leader of the Republicans , and it was Ford 's popularity on both sides of the aisle that had brought him to the presidency . |
| 12 | ‘ Survival of the — ’ Jamie drew his breath in sharply and pulled the stick so hard he almost fell off his stool , but he managed to dodge the darting yellow bolts that had driven him into the corner of the screen' — nastiest . ’ |
| 13 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 14 | And then he knew what it was that had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 15 | Holly coming back to the bench after an hour 's walk that had taken him to the ski jump where the young people gathered to watch the first of the winter 's athletes propel themselves into the dizzy air flows . |
| 16 | Dexter guessed she was starting to share the same nagging sense of depression that had afflicted him since the end of the interview with Parkin . |
| 17 | ‘ If I 'm given a challenge I have to have a go at it , ’ he admits , reflecting on the guiding principles that have taken him to the top of two major industries . |
| 18 | At Pace 's 57th St space until 17 October , Claes Oldenburg has returned to the possibilities of human scale sculptures of harps , saxophones , scent bottles , a tie etc after his monumental commissions that have occupied him since the 1980s and which include ‘ Match Cover ’ in the Olympic village at Barcelona . |
| 19 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 20 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 21 | Franco conducted it on his own terms , however , which meant that it was so gradual as to be barely perceptible at times , and designed to show him in the most favourable light possible . |
| 22 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 23 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
| 24 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 25 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 26 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 27 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 28 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 29 | She looked around her despairingly and began to push him towards the pantry . |
| 30 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |