Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] he [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ I never struck him with my fists or kicked him in the face when I was in a standing position . ’ |
| 3 | They think he is a PERFUME … while others suspect they 've seen clothes he designed , or clocked him behind the wheel of a racing car . |
| 4 | Then swabbed the wash-basin clean guided Maxim downstairs and found their shoes and socks moving with a numb efficiency that abstracted him from the terrors of his imagination . |
| 5 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 6 | It was the same mentality that led him into the folie de grandeur of thinking that , having been a champion driver , he was also fitted to run a motor-racing team — indeed , to think that he was better fitted to do so than those for whom he had worked and driven . |
| 7 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 8 | Connors left the Brazilian shaking his head in disbelief as he hit winners at will and showed the kind of form that rocketed him to the semi-finals last year . |
| 9 | It was Darwin 's fortune that spared him from the drudgery which wore out his contemporaries , and allowed him to do his research without worrying about whether he would have bread and cheese . |
| 10 | Not only has Mellor lost the cherished Cabinet post that thrust him to the forefront of British politics , but he has also waved goodbye to the Heritage Secretary 's salary of £63,047 . |
| 11 | He waited until the coastguard officer had got well ahead , than followed him along the path back the way they had come . |
| 12 | Tabitha separated herself from Marco with a convulsive heave that spreadeagled him against the porthole . |
| 13 | In addition , despite a disarmingly pleasant manner , Reagan was widely considered to harbour views that placed him outside the mainstream of American politics ; there was a possibility that he might tamper with social security or lead his country into war . |
| 14 | Philip Tufnell is welcomed back to Test cricket after his appendix operation by a Waqar Younis yorker that hit him on the foot |
| 15 | As he tried to grab me , I feinted , slipped back to make him follow me , knowing he would think I was afraid , and then I let him have a classic straight left that hit him on the point of the jaw . |
| 16 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |
| 17 | Most of the people in Bonanza 's outfit had been aware that Mahoney was up to some kind of private business that kept him in the bucks more than whatever he earned from Bonanza . |
| 18 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 19 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 20 | Lawrence has demanded a battling performance after a Watford defeat that reminded him of the FA Cup knockout by Portsmouth . |
| 21 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |
| 22 | ‘ I understand from the Echo man that it was your paper in Nature that put him onto the track , ’ Kegan said maliciously . |
| 23 | But there could be no begrudging the 1990 innings at Hove that put him in the Somerset record-books . |
| 24 | It was , however , his permanent design of the deceptively simple 1920 Whitehall Cenotaph ( originally erected in wood and plaster as a saluting point for the Victory March Past of Allied troops in July 1919 ) that put him in the eye of the general public and for the first time turned Lutyens into a household name . |
| 25 | ‘ He came over incensed , accusing me of hitting the ball that struck him in the testicles … it 's a reflection of the degree of tension . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Reagan was showered by shards of glass , including at least one that struck him in the face , but was unhurt . |
| 27 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 28 | Bashful Barry believes it was his failure with girls as a schoolboy that set him on the path to fame as a film buff . |
| 29 | It had been alleged that after hiring Mr Mullan 's taxi for a journey from Gourock to Greenock , he produced a hunting knife and stabbed him on the chest . |
| 30 | The prosecution claims that Westmore James got into a row with the cousin , and stabbed him in the neck on the steps of a social security office . |