Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A son of Green Desert , Magic Ring is out of an Empery mare and there are indications that he will stay a mile despite the amazing speed he displayed as a juvenile .
2 With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old .
3 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 .
4 In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) .
5 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 .
6 The only ingredient he recognized on the prescription was caffeine .
7 From his bedroom he communicated with the rest of the world through the power of the postage stamp .
8 On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity .
9 Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier .
10 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 .
11 He has neither a running mate nor a campaign headquarters , but when he announced his bid he shot to the top of the polls .
12 The 30-year-old Scouser plays his first game for Coventry since his £250,000 permanent move from Newcastle against Liverpool , the club he worshipped as a boy .
13 Redmond , now with Oldham , is slowly recovering from the misery of his final few months at the club he joined as a boy .
14 Before then he had 14 years in charge of West Ham , the club he joined as a schoolboy player and where he progressed through the ranks .
15 The irony for him now is that a third success could relegate the club he supported as a boy .
16 When he ‘ found his car he sat behind the wheel , gripping it so tight he could 've snapped it .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Among his patrons was Lord Conway , a wealthy Irish peer whose agent he became for the purchase of rare books in London .
20 Taking the carrier bag from the back seat he slipped on the mask .
21 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 .
22 Frightened by the stranger he ran to the kitchen to find his mother .
23 My GP visited me and I still have the drawing he did of the cancer they had found in my kidney .
24 On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London .
25 Whatever the fault he had from the start ,
26 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 .
27 The wretched man made his way to Brighton where after one bungled attempt he walked off the pier and killed himself by drowning .
28 In an Aug. 12 interview he referred to a split in the Polisario leadership dating back to 1988 and said that he was " rallying against those who are stubbornly persisting in imposing a disastrous situation on our people … a dead-end solution " .
29 By the advice of his college he competed for a college research Fellowship , known as the Charles Kingsley Bye-Fellowship .
30 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 !
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