Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 2 | Then without a backward glance he fled towards the French windows , clutching the offending animal under his arm . |
| 3 | Racing is often cruelly unfair , however , and while Top Class looks marvellous each-way value , Brittain 's dreams of victory could be wrecked by Golden Pheasant , a horse he trained in the early part of the season . |
| 4 | In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised . |
| 5 | It should not be despised , Bombay talkies , any more than Mizoguchi despised the melodrama he took from the Kabuki theatre . |
| 6 | With full and proper ceremony he walked through the sacred fire and was accepted as pure by the god Asuryan . |
| 7 | Landing over the first fence he crashed into the prostrate form of the faller Meon Valley and was brought down . |
| 8 | Speeding home to Maidenhead on his Lambretta he brooded on the exciting and slightly scary world of West Coast direct action , radicalism , Beat and homosexuality . |
| 9 | In support of this submission he relied on the recent decision of the House of Lords in Reg. v. Inland Revenue Commissioners , Ex parte T. C. Coombs & Co. [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 283 , 302F where the House of Lords held , in the words of Lord Lowry who gave the leading judgment in which the other Lords of Appeal concurred , that |
| 10 | Walter climbed in beside him , trying hard not to show the fear he felt for the mechanical monster . |
| 11 | But one also sees in the adoption of Havard the vivid contrast which existed between the clubbable Lewis liked by his friends and the figure he presented on the domestic scene . |
| 12 | No wonder he fumed against the new , freer-handed satiric writers , Kingsley Amis and John Wain . |
| 13 | The next day at lunch he referred to the previous day as bringing " tears in the morning and tears at night . " |
| 14 | Webb , and others , stressed the amount of work he gave to the poor . |
| 15 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 16 | In the same vein he wrote to the papal legate in 1095 : |
| 17 | Here is an example from a question he put to the prime minister on 9 July 1992 : |
| 18 | In return he signed over the entire household possessions and his BMW . |
| 19 | During the war he served with the Royal Navy Combined Operations in the Far East before working as an overseas executive for Fison 's . |
| 20 | During the war he served in the Italian campaign , won an MC at Anzio , and ended the war in Burma . |
| 21 | After the war he disappeared into the closed world of post-war intelligence with MI5 until 1956 before moving to MI6 as the real life ‘ M ’ made famous in fiction by James Bond creator Ian Fleming . |
| 22 | However , world troubles halted his immediate progress , and at the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service ( RNAS ) , beginning training on November 19 , 1914 . |
| 23 | All week-end he drove about the outer suburbs with Jannie and the boys , calling on relatives and letting fall the news in the course of conversation . |
| 24 | They had walked the perimeter his men had already marked out in preparation for the stockade he planned around the new settlement ; the deputies had taken this in , uttering cries among themselves at the tools his men handled . |
| 25 | She could n't relax ; she could hear every move he made through the flimsy wall , and each one stretched her nerves tight . |
| 26 | After the final curtain he went to the local hospital to have the wound attended to . |
| 27 | The journey took him to Harwich , then Norwich , where he tried unsuccessfully to get the medication he needed from the local hospital . |
| 28 | The fact that his figures often have a wooden tightness and that one of his major pictures represents a homosexual 's death may reflect the stasis and lack of vitality he felt within the contemporary art scene and within himself . |
| 29 | And the smile he gave to the frozen victim of his indecent amusement was pure poison . |
| 30 | All day he lay in the dark windowless room , semi-conscious . |