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

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1 THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China .
2 Unlike his older brothers he went to a Franco — Annamite school and obtained a certificate in 1907 .
3 The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based .
4 … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién .
5 Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage .
6 It was an entry to international football as perfectly timed as any of the crisp , balanced tackles he made in the course of his remarkable playing career .
7 Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell .
8 The crises he discerned in the mid-1960s are still powerfully visible in the early 1990s .
9 At some allotments he went to a shed , with Harry following .
10 Silver , a schoolmate of Hockney at Bradford grammar , sold the young artist 's paintings through the chain of clothes shops he established in the North after taking his A levels .
11 With these words he ran at the Husayn twins and started to belabour them with his plastic sword .
12 AUDLEY LUMSDEN lines up on Oxford University 's right wing against Cambridge next Tuesday haunted by the chilling words he heard on a March Saturday in 1989 .
13 It is in the erm statement of faith to substitute for the phrase by his death on the cross the words he died on the cross for the sins of the world .
14 He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people .
15 Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it .
16 Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it .
17 Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 .
18 The miseries he mentioned with the heating were in the past .
19 In both designs he brought to the Restoration house an unexpected elegance of arrangement , combining corner suites in the French manner , comprising bedchamber and closets , the suites linked with each other by corridors , with grand , formal staircases , to achieve a synthesis premonitory of the great houses of the eighteenth century .
20 He hated verbal theories , he did n't read much , he 'd never travelled outside the states , he punched people up , and when he was drunk at parties he pissed into the fireplace .
21 When in Rome Simon is said to have encountered St. Peter and in an attempt to gain converts he flew through the air supported by invisible demons .
22 And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them .
23 At the scene of the attack police found a plastic bag holding the pint of milk and four sausages he had bought for his tea — and some of the breadcrumbs he scattered to the birds each day .
24 Eugenius Birch 's fame rested mainly , however , on the fourteen seaside piers he built around the coasts of England and Wales .
25 He kept himself very much to himself , studying the ancient books he kept in the box beside his bed , doing his exercises , or playing himself at wei chi — long games that could take a day , sometimes even a week to complete .
26 A Chicago engineer and architect , he started collecting in the 1950s the books he loved as a child , and then moved on to literature , science and judaica .
27 Before the water reached his knees he knew without a shadow of doubt that he would never be able to stand at waist depth .
28 On his knees he took off the slipper , slid the white high-heeled sandal on to her foot .
29 When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma .
30 Henry died twelve days later , and much of Eliot 's time during the two months he stayed in the United States was spent in winding up his affairs .
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