Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he walked the Dark Elves trembled , for he commanded the powers of magic as if born to them . |
| 2 | His first cure was at Yalding in the Medway valley , where he succeeded the radical printing preacher John Strowd . |
| 3 | Horne was educated at Newport Grammar School , joined Newport 's Congregational church and , with the ministry in mind , went to Glasgow University ( MA , 1886 ) and then Mansfield College , Oxford , where he took the three-year college course in theology . |
| 4 | He was educated at Quaker institutions : Sidcot School and Woodbrooke College , Birmingham , where he took the social studies course . |
| 5 | ‘ Sweetie , you are looking at an old moose who just ca n't figure out where he took the wrong trail and he 'll never get back up that hill again . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think so , ’ he replied sullenly , unrolling his sleeves and going to the chair , where he collected the burgundy waistcoat given to him by the old man . |
| 7 | Flynn had overcome this shortage by holding a night school for his gangers , where he taught the simple precepts of laying down a line on the ground from a survey map . |
| 8 | Reagan 's formative years were spent in a series of small Illinois towns — Tampico , Monmouth , Dixon and finally Eureka where he attended the small church-related Eureka College from 1928 until 1932 . |
| 9 | News of the men 's golf included Mr. H. le Fleming Shepherd 's efforts in the Amateur Championship at St Andrew 's where he reached the 3rd round . |
| 10 | At Canniesburn Hospital , where he spent the major part of his working life , his close friend and colleague , Professor W Henry Reid , said that Prof Gibson was one of the city 's finest sons . |
| 11 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 12 | He went first to a choir school , St Michael 's College , Bexley , then , having failed his Eleven-Plus , to Oakfield School , Dulwich , where he received the private education on which his parents were so keen , although that meant sacrifices for them , such as giving up smoking . |
| 13 | In 1734 he was appointed Bishop of Cloyne , eventually moving to Oxford in 1752 , where he died the next year . |
| 14 | On the morning of 19 April , Kadir Kurt was detained in Birk village , district of Bismail near Diyarbakir , and taken for interrogation to the Gendarmerie Battalion Headquarters where he died the same night . |
| 15 | Mike shrugged easily , but his right hand crept around to the rear pocket of his overall , where he kept the big Stilson spanner . |
| 16 | His first destination was the headquarters of the ANC in Lusaka ( Zambia ) , where he met the exiled ANC executive committee , and other leaders of the Frontline states and Commonwealth representatives , and was greeted with the ceremony normally reserved for heads of state . |
| 17 | The first he knew of it was a warning call from high above where he saw the angry silhouette of a golden eagle stooping . |
| 18 | For the most part , however , he found more to preoccupy him outside France ( where he feared the imminent outbreak of a global conflict ) than inside . |
| 19 | Before managing the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Palazzo Grassi in Venice , the Swedish scholar presided over the fortunes of the Pompidou Centre , where he pioneered the multi-disciplinary approach and the concept of architectural flexibility . |
| 20 | Before that , Swan was at Madge Networks Ltd , where he turned the ailing business round in spectacular fashion . |
| 21 | On April 29th Chavez was buried in Delano , a small town in California 's Central Valley , where he founded the United Farm Workers ( UFW ) in 1962 . |
| 22 | He was educated at Harrow ( 1870–3 ) and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he won the inter-university mile race in 1877 . |
| 23 | As he journeyed on horseback through Palestine and then up the coast of southern Lebanon in the 1830s , he was an adventurer , staying overnight with the governor of Tyre , crossing the snows of the Chouf mountain chain to the gentleness of the Bekaa Valley where he sketched the great temples of the Roman city of Heliopolis . |
| 24 | But he could and did hold a fringe meeting with the Bow Group , where he gave the becoming speech of a statesman . |
| 25 | Minns brought a broad range of expertise to bear on a field extending from eastern Europe to China , while at the same time paying close attention to the antiquities and books of his own college , where he occupied the same rooms over a period of fifty-five years as undergraduate , fellow , president ( 1928–49 ) , and senior fellow . |
| 26 | After a successful career in England , Willie Johnson followed the exodus of ageing British professional players to the US Soccer League , where he joined the Canadian team Vancouver Whitecaps . |
| 27 | His obsession with the social history of the Twenties and Thirties led him to Wilsford Manor , Tennant 's home , in 1986 , where he wooed the eremitic inhabitant with chocolates and orchids . |
| 28 | Blake Morrison will be literary editor ; he also leaves the Observer , where he held the same position . |
| 29 | In 1852 he was appointed medical officer to the Royal Free Hospital , Hampstead , where he handled the local offensive against cholera during the 1854 epidemic . |
| 30 | He was educated at Evesham Grammar School and , from 1885 to 1887 , at Mason College , Birmingham , where he gained the junior engineering diploma . |