Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance . |
| 2 | It arrived at the sixth , where he drove into the lake , picked out his ball under penalty , then hit it 260 yards with his 1-iron straight into the hole . |
| 3 | Between Piccadilly and Putney , where he lived in the basement of a decaying Victorian house , he progressed through his usual states of somnolence , sick juddering wakefulness , and increasing worry about Val . |
| 4 | He did no wilful damage but regarded himself as entitled to go where he wished for the purpose in his mind without regard to the rights of ownership and the alleged presence of man traps and spring guns . |
| 5 | His companion managed to drag him into St Stephen 's Hospital , where he died within the hour . |
| 6 | One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last . |
| 7 | Cassidy , I thought , was rather more interesting in his nightmarish salamander-prince incarnation , where he writhed around the stage in scaly green tights . |
| 8 | A report on ( Hekmatyar 's ) Radio Message of Freedom on Sept. 24 said that former President Najibullah had been moved from the UN offices in Kabul ( where he fled at the outset of the fall of his regime ) to Mazar-i-Sharif " where he now lives under the intimidation and torture of leaders of the unholy coalition of the north " . |
| 9 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 10 | He did a really intimate show where he sat on the edge of the stage with his ankles crossed and talked to them and sang them songs . |
| 11 | The world of the Zoo seemed to move without any noise at all and around the Cages all was still but for the visitor Creggan had attacked , who swayed back and forth where he sat on the ground , others gathered around him . |
| 12 | It was in a cinema on 86th Street where he sat in the balcony , wearing an old sports jacket and open-necked shirt . |
| 13 | He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand . |
| 14 | A CSCE mission was nevertheless permitted to visit Nagorny Karabakh on Feb. 12 , and on Feb. 17 Hassan Hasanov , the Azerbaijani Prime Minister , arrived in Brussels to attend a session of the European Parliament and a meeting of NATO 's Political Council , where he spoke about the background to the conflict . |
| 15 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 16 | A few days later , he was off to south London , where he concentrated on the subject of deserts — his speciality . |
| 17 | Having to choose between being ‘ poor in Oxford or comfortable in Aber. ’ , he chose Aberystwyth , where he worked on the university magazine , published his first poems and stories , and dabbled in left-wing politics . |
| 18 | Now retired and living in Woodside , Barnard Castle , he left Tyneside to become a UN civil servant based in Washington DC , in the USA , where he worked with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund . |
| 19 | In the summer of 1914 Braque was once more at Sorgues , while Picasso spent his time between Sorgues and Avignon , where he worked in the company of André Derain . |
| 20 | He has a non-vocational Oxbridge degree but has been thoroughly trained in the operations of the family business and is a shrewd and capable manager with some 32 years of practical experience ( plus 5 years in the army , where he rose to the rank of major ) . |
| 21 | When the Devil was driven from the centre of the Divine Drama , as he was by the medieval scholastics , he resurfaced elsewhere among the superstitious beliefs of medieval Europe , where he remained despite the Reformation . |
| 22 | The Syrians performed the task swiftly , and Aoun was forced to take refuge in the French embassy , where he remained at the end of the year . |
| 23 | In business for himself , first near St Paul 's , but by 1812 firmly established at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ( where he remained for the rest of his career , apart from an enforced absence during the rebuilding of 1838–44 ) , Wilson became the determined champion of a free press — ‘ It is like the air we breathe ; if we have it not , we die . ’ |
| 24 | It was to this much dive-bombed , shelled and strafed position — described as a forefinger poking into Rommel 's midriff — that Leslie came , and where he remained throughout the summer and autumn , constantly in action . |
| 25 | Three years later James Walker , a past president of the Institution of Civil Engineers , appointed him principal assistant in his London office , where he remained until the beginning of 1862 . |
| 26 | Satan lies to his followers and has convinced us too of his mighty strength and even starts to believe in his own lies when he claims he was ‘ self-begot ’ , caused by Fate , or he sprang from the ground or willed himself into existence , an absurd contradiction in terms . |
| 27 | Captain John Nisbet fought in the battle and , although he escaped from the field , he was hunted by the Dragoons for the rest of his life . |
| 28 | Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium . |
| 29 | Maurinus , cantor in the royal palace , had effectively challenged Eligius to do so , by searching himself , although he died in the attempt . |
| 30 | It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton . |