Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 that experience changed him in every way .
2 But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems .
3 Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’
4 The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage .
5 Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm .
6 This act left him with an interest in the company that was for most practical purposes worthless since the previous practice among the three member-directors had been to take the money out of the firm in the form of directors ' fees rather than shareholders ' dividends .
7 Several influences combined in this period to help him in the search for an alternative theological approach .
8 Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground .
9 This has led some writers to place him within the interpretative tradition .
10 The Headmaster himself was an aloof and somewhat austere figure in public , betraying his emotions only twice — when he announced , on the afternoon of 11th November 1918 to the assembled school , the signing of the Armistice , and when some sixth-formers presented him with a gift to mark his marriage .
11 My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college .
12 Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground .
13 A few seconds brought him to the oak .
14 It would give the American parent group a chance to examine his potential at close quarters and at the same time he would be able to undergo some training to prepare him for the more elevated positions he was destined to occupy in future .
15 Some Burmese regard him as a future Buddha .
16 The boy was in Nunnery Lane when another youth asked him for a ride on the bike and never returned .
17 The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic .
18 Some commentators regarded him as the leader of a conservative faction which had opposed the economic reformist policies of CPV general secretary Nguyen Van Linh .
19 and this guy got him by the throat and pinned him to the wall and said Billy shut up !
20 Midge Ure was playing for nothing , just a few beers to see him through the evening .
21 And it was n't just it was by pure coincidence , I mean his kidneys would have stopped anyway , that bloke thumped him in the pub .
22 Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' .
23 That war robbed him of the prime of his career , when he was the best player in the world .
24 These journeys took him to the furthest extent of the colonies , from Lake Ontario to Virginia and into the Carolinas and Florida .
25 I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’
26 So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it .
27 All ways to hold him for a while .
28 His infuriated wife , who had learned little of him since his departure , and had in all probability imagined him on a chain gang in some inhospitable region , had since learned that her husband was enjoying a rich existence with the high rollers of Sydney .
29 He was not widely known , but many commentators identified him as a conservative and suggested that he was unenthusiastic about market economic reform .
30 That punch put him in the Guinness Book of Records with the quickest KO in history when he flattened American Johnny Ellis in 12secs in November 1990 , and he has claimed two other victims in 19secs and 27secs respectively .
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