Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With swift steps he crossed to the glazed door and saw her crouched before a flowerbed , apparently engrossed in the task of tugging weeds from between the flowering rose bushes . |
| 2 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 3 | He thought his best period was the pictures he did in the Thirties , when he worked in France ’ . |
| 4 | The roles he played in the glossy pages of The New Yorker , for instance , were almost parodies of gracious living and social superiority . |
| 5 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 6 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 7 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
| 8 | One of the author 's former clients is still awaiting certificates for American stocks he bought through the crashed Sheridan Securities over two years ago , a familiar story to clients of many licensed dealers ( and many clients deal through several ) . |
| 9 | Gouzenko 's involvement in the allegations against Sir Roger Hollis was the result of statements he made during the lengthy debriefing following his defection when he claimed there were two Russian spies both with the codename Elli . |
| 10 | Alexander ‘ Greek ’ Thomson has an international reputation for the buildings he designed during the last century . |
| 11 | His major contributions to Welsh scholarship , however , were the numerous studies he published of the intricate structure of the four branches of the Mabinogi and of aspects of the Arthurian legend , a field in which his interest had been aroused by the work of Sir John Rhŷs [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | Before the move he had already been planting exotics in the sheltered garden with a slope to the south-west ; an ideal situation for the rare trees he collected over the next twenty years . |
| 13 | Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier . |
| 14 | Friedlander used many of the formal devices he developed during the earlier series but also conveyed the different working environment of a new , light industry . |
| 15 | After a couple of sentences he went into the present tense , which was a habit he had in speaking of the past , as if it were the plot of some play he was about to do . |
| 16 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 17 | Had a look at the records last night and saw that Sterland scored 5 goals in the Div II championship and 7 in the 20-odd matches he played in the Div I Championship . |
| 18 | The courage and dignity with which Arthur Ashe announced in New York that he has the AIDS virus , as a result of being given infected blood during one of the two major heart operations he underwent in the mid 1980's , was typical of one of the world 's most outstanding and gracious sportsmen . |
| 19 | His published analysis of the cholera cases he attended during the 1832 epidemic drew attention to the correlations between disease and environment ( in particular the habitations , principally in cellars and courts , of the poor ) . |
| 20 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 21 | For three seasons he rode for the Scottish millionaire George Baird ( ‘ Mr Abington ’ ) , training and riding Busybody . |
| 22 | In the seminars he went through the latest developments in Pest Control in the UK . |
| 23 | To cheers and aahs he emerged on the far bank , shook himself and set off in dripping pursuit . |
| 24 | Through the winter of 1940–41 , Lieutenant Courtney trained his Special Boat Section attached to 8 Commando , and with a second-in-command and 15 men he went to the Middle East in February 1941 . |
| 25 | I do n't suppose he remembers her name now , any more than he remembers the names of the dozens of other women he seduced during the ten years of our marriage . |
| 26 | What happened here was apparently an attempt to change strokes into dots ; and it is dots he wrote for the immediate repeat of the theme . |
| 27 | Of the four biographies he published in the 1930s , Frank Harris ( 1932 ) was a witty and ironic exercise in demythology , identifying his one-time literary hero as an inverted puritan ‘ with a heart of borrowed gold ’ ; and his Samuel Johnson ( 1933 ) a succinct and humane study of ‘ an intensely loving and compassionate soul handicapped in its expression by lifelong disabilities of mind and body ’ . |
| 28 | More important than either of these were Nnamdi Azikiwe 's West African Pilot , started in 1937 , and a series of other papers he launched in the succeeding years . |
| 29 | He continues to serve a 14-year sentence because of reports he sent to the British Broadcasting Corporation and for ‘ possession of anti-government literature ’ . |
| 30 | However , although there seems indeed to be a return to ‘ History ’ ( in Simonian terms ) and an apparent abandonment of the scriptural narcissism of the self-generating novels he produced in the 1970s , this view also rests on a historicizing version of the development of Simon 's fiction . |