Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The evidence given above indicates that Martin could well have accomplished this , particularly in the context of the significant advances he brought to the design of the musette , which demonstrate his innovative abilities as a maker . |
| 32 | When everyone has found their places he stands by the microphone at the top table , hammers on the table with a gavel , and announces loudly , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , Pray SILENCE for the Reverend John Smith , who will now say grace . ’ |
| 33 | After his election , Dr Kumar spoke of the racial attacks he endured during the campaign . |
| 34 | Exasperated by the resistance of the Cabinet to new ideas he resigned from the Government and took his ease to the Labour party Conference in October 1930 , where he very nearly won it . |
| 35 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 36 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 37 | For most of the next two years he served with the army in Newcastle , though in 1650 the council of state declared him to be unfit to be deputy governor of the garrison . |
| 38 | For the next 13 years he served in the Met . |
| 39 | Enthroned in 1971 , in his last years he presided over the church 's rehabilitation by the Soviet authorities after decades of repression . |
| 40 | During the next twelve years he rose to the position of general manager , in charge of finance and personnel , and during this time established a reputation in the business community for ability and honest dealing . |
| 41 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
| 42 | There is of course no reason why he should propose solutions to the questions he implies about the use of land and its ownership . |
| 43 | In the box Boy kept a few books and a lot of letters ; apart from his clothes these were about the only things he had in the flat that were his own . |
| 44 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 45 | Usually with erotic dreams he woke before the end with a leg half over Gina . |
| 46 | He then went to Jig Jigga , where at a mass meeting of Somalis he swore on the Koran that he was a Muslim . |
| 47 | Like other writers he points to the way in which political direction colours practice , and recognizes too that there may be conflicts within research itself , as there are amongst practitioners . |
| 48 | No matter what difficulties he encounters within the system , he can expect no sympathy . |
| 49 | In his memoirs he revels in the audacity of the fraud he pulled off : |
| 50 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 51 | Miss Pickering told magistrates that he opened up accounts with names he plucked from the telephone directory . |
| 52 | Lang 's success at a ministerial level has not a little to do with the excellent relations he has with the President on both a personal and political plane . |
| 53 | The Rugby Union then received the report from Yorkshire referee Stewart Piercy , whose verdict was that the studs he inspected before the start were not the studs he later outlawed when he inspected the boots of Moore , Leonard and lock Alex Snow during play . |
| 54 | The reader will find the delights he experienced in the introduction to Volume II dispersed throughout the pages of Volume III . |
| 55 | Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required . |
| 56 | Stamping up the stairs he went into the bedroom he shared with Eliza . |
| 57 | Rather than fall into the hands of the Witch King 's servants he jumped into the sea in full armour . |
| 58 | Will he tell the House a little more about what representations he made to the Government of India on those important matters ? |
| 59 | First to the lens was BRETT ANDERSON , and with his unfeasibly long arms he took to the shape perfectly . |
| 60 | Normally this duty was spelt out explicitly in the instructions he received at the beginning of his embassy . |