Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His successor but one , Wallia , made an attempt to lead his people across to Africa , but failed , and instead came to terms with the Roman leader Constantius , for whom he campaigned against the Vandals and Alans in Spain . |
| 2 | After what he did to THE FACE , I do n't see why you should have a picture of him in the magazine . |
| 3 | Then came the meeting with the woman whom he was to marry , a meeting about which he writes in the same book . |
| 4 | After World War N , during which he served in the army with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers , he was attached to the War Office . |
| 5 | His visit , during which he apologised for the French role in the Rainbow Warrior affair , marked a considerable improvement in bilateral relations [ see p. 38153 ; but see also p. 38345 for New Zealand condemnation of the honouring of the French agent involved in the Rainbow Warrior affair ] . |
| 6 | In an address to the nation on July 25 , during which he spoke of the need for a " fresh start " after the upheavals of June [ see p. 37523 ] , President Kenneth Kaunda pardoned Lt. Mwamba Luchembe and his colleagues who were behind the June 30 announcement of an Army takeover , and announced the release of all other political prisoners . |
| 7 | Jones reserves his highest praise for lateral thinkers — one of whom he identifies as the new Prime Minister Bob Hawke . |
| 8 | Bleek has two girlfriends ( Joie Lee and Cinda Williams ) , each of whom he betrays with the other as a matter of course . |
| 9 | Some of them he did from the Grünewald in Colmar . |
| 10 | He established a considerable empire through central Europe , in the course of which he conferred on the Abbot of St Gall the right of market holding , coinage and excise . |
| 11 | From boyhood Roberts displayed a brilliant and self-tutored mathematical brain and a rapacious appetite for radio knowledge , much of which he absorbed from the journal Wireless World and in public libraries . |
| 12 | He had some notable furniture and possessions , most of which he sold with the house when he moved into The Milebrook . |
| 13 | All a buyer gets to see are the sample boxes opened on the trading floor , on the strength of which he negotiates with the merchant . |
| 14 | All he 's got is a set of scripts , if he 's lucky , some idea of who he wants in the cast , and perhaps a feel for how the show is going to be shot . |
| 15 | Kenny commanded incredible respect , though , because of everything he achieved in the game . |
| 16 | hughesy is renowned as a ‘ hard man ’ although this appears to be a one way thing — he does nt mind dishing it out but if anyone comes within a foot of him he crashes to the turf , usually clutching his face and rolling around frantically in an attempt to get a fellow professional booked/sent off . |
| 17 | With his wrists now in front of him he tore off the hood . |
| 18 | Later they go outside , and the camera tracks in front of him he walks about the property , prodding a pig here and shearing sheep there , explaining how , left to themselves , people logically can not fail to humanize the universe . |
| 19 | and what I was a really impressed with he , he balanced the , the human , what he felt were the human strengths of the school what it felt like you know , what the people were like in it and erm I think that 's made his decision more difficult because he has n't just gone on the ec the academic side of it he looked at the , the all round aspects of it . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's the same shit they used on you — the Doctor analysed some of it he scraped off the stones you 'd been handling . ’ |
| 21 | No indication is given of what he meant by the ‘ educational situation ’ , and there is no evidence that he undertook any systematic comparison of the educational quality of the two schools . |
| 22 | In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role . |
| 23 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 24 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |
| 25 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 26 | He had difficulty in persuading colleagues of what he saw as the benefits of the method : |
| 27 | Much of what he says about the roads and tracks depicted there is perceptive and useful , but even Professor Hoskins is wrong in the attribution of many of them . |
| 28 | Nizan is clearly dismissive of what he considers as the ill-informed and frankly false perceptions of the USSR based on liberal prejudices : " I am not impressed by accounts of a " new " bourgeoisie . |
| 29 | In an entertaining and revealing note which prefaces this recording , the clarinettist Murray Khouri laments the passing of what he describes as the ‘ lyric ’ school of British clarinet playing , the origins of which , he suggests , may be traced to the vocal traditions of our great cathedrals . |
| 30 | The Hon. Gentleman must give more careful thought to the detail of what he describes as the " opting-out schemes " . |