Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old . |
| 2 | It 's a debate Howe understandably does does not want to enter into but he has noticed a similarity between the current team and the Arsenal side he coached to the Double 21 years ago — coincidentally , the same season the Blues won their last major honour , the Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 3 | Ben , watching him , saw once again how the light seemed trapped by the matt black surface of the heavy iron ring he wore on the index finger of his right hand . |
| 4 | The only ingredient he recognized on the prescription was caffeine . |
| 5 | From his bedroom he communicated with the rest of the world through the power of the postage stamp . |
| 6 | Henry was going to add a chapter towards the end of The Complete History of Wimbledon in which he planned to deal with the failure of nerve he sensed in the place . |
| 7 | He has neither a running mate nor a campaign headquarters , but when he announced his bid he shot to the top of the polls . |
| 8 | When he ‘ found his car he sat behind the wheel , gripping it so tight he could 've snapped it . |
| 9 | Besides , as pecuniary punishments may increase the number of robbers , by increasing the number of poor , and may deprive an innocent family of subsistence , the most proper punishment will be that kind of slavery , which alone can be called just ; that is , which makes society , for a time , absolute master of the person , and labour of the criminal , in order to oblige him to repair , by this dependence , the unjust despotism he usurped over the property of another , and his violation of the social compact . |
| 10 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 11 | Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London . |
| 12 | Taking the carrier bag from the back seat he slipped on the mask . |
| 13 | Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims endorsed the Christian monarchy whose laws promised both security for ecclesiastical wealth and firm support for the church as an institution with its own hierarchical structure , as well as investing Charles 's kingship with new forms of legitimacy , Hincmar , as he wrote proudly to the pope , regularly supplied the military aid he owed to the king . |
| 14 | Frightened by the stranger he ran to the kitchen to find his mother . |
| 15 | My GP visited me and I still have the drawing he did of the cancer they had found in my kidney . |
| 16 | K. Barrett 's book , Luke the Historian in Recent Study is the weight he gives to the Word as the prime agency through which the Spirit extends the good news of Christ . |
| 17 | Whatever the fault he had from the start , |
| 18 | Certainly things went wrong when he was Chancellor , but none of it was his fault he explains in THE VIEW FROM NO. 11 ( Bantam Press , Pounds 20 ) . |
| 19 | MacArthur did not regard him as particularly able and remarked on the disappointment he felt at the failure of Japanese politics to produce outstanding personalities . |
| 20 | When an accomplished actor like ( bridegroom 's name ) realizes he is going to have a speaking part in the wedding ceremony he jumps at the opportunity . |
| 21 | The wretched man made his way to Brighton where after one bungled attempt he walked off the pier and killed himself by drowning . |
| 22 | Twelve minutes after the break he moved into the middle during a rare Palace break and was in just the right spot to hammer home a left-wing cross to give Palace a great victory and set up a 3rd round tie against Liverpool ! |
| 23 | Arieti , an expert on both creativity and schizophrenia — and therefore the most qualified among these contemporary psychiatric writers to comment — is equally disappointing in the light he throws on the issue . |
| 24 | The document is aimed at stimulating international solidarity , not only with regard to the effects of the refugee crisis , but above all tot he causes of the tragedy . |
| 25 | Dodging the hurled dishcloth he slipped through the door , leaving me to sip my coffee and breathe in the sweet smells of home . |
| 26 | And yesterday , TACP Design 's practice partner Brian Evans , a former city councillor and conservation work pioneer , showed off the prestigious trophy he received at the RICS Awards 1992 ceremony in London . |
| 27 | In the dark he cut across the grass by the tractor-shed , then back behind a row of buildings where there was an old cow-byre that they did n't use any more except for storing stuff . |
| 28 | By night for twelve hours in another boat he sailed through the Underworld beneath the earth , bringing his light to the lower darkness . |
| 29 | If he is interested in looking close to home , he should note the fact that while unemployment in my constituency has , tragically , gone up by the figure he mentioned in the course of the past 12 months , it has gone up in his constituency by 110 per cent . |
| 30 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |