Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the first medical officer of health for Lambeth he gained direct experience of cholera and other water-borne diseases . |
| 2 | After Kristallnacht he forbade further attacks on Jews and tried to have the worst ringleaders punished by the courts . |
| 3 | Returning through Bologna he passed various tests for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica and was awarded a diploma , the conditions of entry , stipulating that members must be over the age of 20 , having been waived on this occasion . |
| 4 | For Wykeham he designed New College , Oxford , and supervised the works there from 1379 to 1386 , after which he went on to design Winchester College , ready for occupation in 1394 but not completed until after 1400 . |
| 5 | BROUGH JUSTICE : When Jack Charlton was boss of Middlesbrough he had star players of the quality of Graeme Souness , left , and David Mills , right . |
| 6 | At the end of August he received another letter from Leopold telling him that the archbishop had forgiven him and wanted a reconciliation . |
| 7 | Her father recounted his latest golf tournament , Guy talked to Charles about sailing , then opened up the conversation by introducing a surprisingly shrewd appreciation of the arts into the debate , when it became clear that in addition to racing yachts around the Isle of Wight he made frequent visits to see the RSC at the Barbican , and was something of an expert on modern ballet . |
| 8 | With Richard Hill of Thornton he killed 20 brace of partridges with 40 shots . |
| 9 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 10 | Indeed when Richard marched against Angoulême he made this move after taking counsel with the barons of Poitou . |
| 11 | With Andy he climbed five routes : Relative Ease HVS , Like Father Like Son E4 6a , Family Affair E3 5c , Bloodling E3 6a and Genetic Edge , E3 6a . |
| 12 | In 1964 he was voted European Footballer of the Year and in a long career with Scotland he won 55 caps and earned the interchangeable nicknames ‘ Denis The Menace ’ or simply ‘ The King ’ . |
| 13 | After his retirement in 1920 he continued his travels around the world , and on board the MV Alcinous bound for Australia he died 27 October 1938 and was buried at sea latitude 37° 13' N , longitude 11° 107' E. |
| 14 | From Poitou he ravaged French territories . |
| 15 | In Salzburg he envisions another renovation of a gigantic rock . |
| 16 | When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas . |
| 17 | In 1888 in China he married another missionary , Priscilla Livingstone ( died 1929 ) , daughter of William Stewart , flax merchant , of Lisburn , Ireland . |
| 18 | In September he used recent edicts to illustrate the government 's indecision and halfheartedness . |
| 19 | In June he issued new shares worth £9.6 million to fund the acquisition of Swanton , a property company set up on Kwik-Fit 's behalf to develop 15 depots . |
| 20 | In June he gave two performances in Taipei . |
| 21 | There he 's caught up in a gas attack , and when he returns to Swindon he suffers recurring asthma . |
| 22 | Turning to Egor he requests more body parts and , to accentuate the urgency required , he physically hurls our hunchbacked hero from the top of his castle into the graveyard below where the game begins . |
| 23 | So on his next few field trips to Mexico he searched this area properly to find out just what the range is for this species . |
| 24 | I said to Pete he went one Saturday morning , there was grass under one of the chairs ! |
| 25 | If he could convince her that nothing she could say or do would make him change his mind about Carrie , the way would be open for him to prove to Carrie he had enough love for the two of them . |
| 26 | When he went up to Cambridge he met another American who 'd been brought up in England , whose father was a journalist in the London bureau of the Washington Post , and he 'd had a thing about graveyards , too . |
| 27 | After provisionally deciding to go to Bali he consults this oracle : ‘ How would I react if I had all your information ? ’ , and gets the answer ‘ You would stay at home ’ . |
| 28 | Edward overworked in his lonely digs — ‘ the first time I ever truly worked ’ — and in these early letters to Hooton he discovered new qualities in his nature . |
| 29 | In his early travels to London he met various intellectuals and literary people such as Joseph Addison , Alexander Pope , and Jonathan Swift . |
| 30 | When the new manager arrived at Highbury he made administrative changes which deprived Arsenal 's fifty voluntary workers — mostly schoolteachers acting as stewards and programme sellers — of various perks . |