Example sentences of "[vb past] he [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Garvey , 40 , has brought a private prosecution against Carr , 33 , alleging Carr assaulted him in the same incident in Middlesbrough Town Hall in October . |
| 2 | Mr Seiters said Mr Honecker 's speech was an ‘ oppressive contrast ’ to the challenge posed him by the recent exodus and the upsurge of demands in East Germany for reform . |
| 3 | Simultaneously the influence of A. W. N. Pugin [ q.v. ] drew him to the Catholic Church , into which he was received in 1846 . |
| 4 | A family connection with the lord chancellor , John , Baron Somers [ q.v. ] , drew him to the Whig side in politics , but he was no slavish follower of a party . |
| 5 | In his last years , Gresham 's fame as a magician drew him into the sordid court intrigues surrounding the divorce of Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Maisie snorted and , following the sound of his voice , traced him to the wooden bench . |
| 7 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 8 | Yesterday , sentencing Ferguson , Sheriff Colin MacKay described him as the prime mover . |
| 9 | On that occasion , Richard Dorment , a critic not noted for exaggeration , described him in The Daily Telegraph as the most inventive sculptor since Picasso , and this new exhibition promises to be one of the season 's notable achievements . |
| 10 | Caught him by the Arran-knit jumper , he did , and flung him against the railings , demanding money . |
| 11 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 12 | In the early hours of Thursday morning , the murderer skewered him to the wooden floor of a refreshment hut . |
| 13 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 14 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 15 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 16 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 17 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 18 | ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said . |
| 19 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 20 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 21 | Wilson 's principal domestic fault was his kindness in bestowing benefits on friends , and indeed on anyone who approached him in the appropriate fashion , and certainly through Marcia Williams . |
| 22 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 23 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 25 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 26 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 27 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |
| 28 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 29 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 30 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |