Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After narrowly losing the 1784 by-election , Hotham visited Sussex , where he embarked upon the ambitious scheme of transforming the fishing hamlet of Bognor into the select watering-place of ‘ Hothamton ’ . |
| 2 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 3 | An ill man , he returned to his brother James 's farm , where he died at the early age of forty-seven , 19 October 1799 . |
| 4 | He had no Scots upbringing either , since in 1924 his family moved to south Yorkshire , where he studied at the local elementary school and at Wath-on-Dearne Grammar School , before entering Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1939 . |
| 5 | He has set up a pirate radio station in his bedroom , where he talks to the disaffected youth of his neighbourhood under the guise of Happy Harry Hard-On . |
| 6 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 7 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 8 | The Tories were in some disarray after the association of some of their leaders with Jacobite intrigue : Oxford was impeached and sent to the Tower in 1715 , and although eventually acquitted in 1717 , his political power was effectively destroyed ; Bolingbroke fled abroad , and although he returned in the 1720s to play a leading role in the propaganda campaign against Walpole , he was not allowed to resume his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 9 | These illustrations show slightly more freedom in architectural treatment than Scott used in the competition , as The Civil Engineer and Architects ' Journal said , although he adhered to the general principle of uniformity , |
| 10 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 11 | He did really well as a novice a year ago in some top class races in Ireland and , although he fell at the seventh in last year 's Gold Cup , he should be a more mature horse and a better jumper this season . |
| 12 | Although he comes from the same mean streets that spawned Tyson , Bowe says : ‘ My approach is totally different to his . |
| 13 | Immediately he disappeared through the open window . |
| 14 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 15 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 16 | He 's he puts more into talking with the I R A and Sinn Fein than he does with the Unionist community who at the end of the day are the majority in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | In Moscow , Mr Yeltsin won a higher percentage of the votes cast than he did in the 1991 presidential election . |
| 18 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 19 | He climbed the three steps to the door , and pushed at it , but it was securely locked , so he went to the nearest window . |
| 20 | The officer at Leicester 's not available at the moment , so he hopes by the next meeting erm if Leeds have an opportunity to see that letter , and perhaps have a short report on what this council does with respect to Nestle/1 and also what other councils have done . |
| 21 | He could understand — so he said to the top brass after the Frenchman had departed — why the French took exception to an Englishman holding such a key position in Europe . |
| 22 | Tallboy was n't sure how to judge his superior 's tone but he needed a fillip to his esteem right now so he looked on the bright side . |
| 23 | His clients are mostly dealers and decorators so he specialises in the unusual . |
| 24 | But he could n't , so he climbed to the disabled man 's perch , and began a sensitive , confident probe , and discovered quite soon how far the man had progressed , and finished the work , fast and easily . |
| 25 | Senna , however , will have plenty to occupy his mind once he recovers from the bitter experience of such a comprehensive defeat in front of his home city supporters on Sunday . |
| 26 | Once he hits on the right track he should be able to follow him to the place where he leaves the food and then watch who picks it up . |
| 27 | Her glance flew after him , watching as he shouldered past the clutching fingers of the palms until he disappeared through the far door . |
| 28 | After reading the signpost , the user moves off in the direction of his choice until he arrives at the next crossroads . |
| 29 | He first became an MP in 1841 as member for Newark and , apart from a break between 1847 and 1850 , he remained in the Commons until he succeeded as the seventh Duke of Rutland in 1888 . |
| 30 | Ian pressed on down the passage , down two steps , until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric . |