Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sukarno was sent to Surabaya , where he experienced loneliness and sought shelter in the Theosophical Society library where he became acquainted with the great Europeans from Rousseau to Marx . |
| 2 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 3 | After months of negotiations between the Russian , Chilean and German authorities the former East German leader , Erich Honecker , was flown on July 29 from Moscow ( where he had lived in the Chilean embassy since December 1991 — see pp. 38687-88 ; 38782 ) to Berlin where he was imprisoned . |
| 4 | Grandfathers and coal-hewing cousins , brothers and the front row of Neath , Homeric schoolteachers and sopranos whose voices had a bell in every tooth made their entrance on to the Oxford stage , mixed in with chorus girls from Cardiff , waterfront villains from Liverpool and the twenty-two-carat glitz of the West End , where he had opened in The Druid 's Rest in January 1944 with fires in the sky at night , bombs falling from the Luftwaffe and pubs and clubs burning excitement under the blackout . |
| 5 | An example of mistranslation occurred when President Kaunda returned from the Singapore Commonwealth Conference in 1970 , where he had clashed with the British prime Minister over British arms sales to South Africa . |
| 6 | Well , I waited up until three o'clock in the morning and he crawled in with footmarks all over his nice new suit where he 'd fallen on the floor and let everybody trample over him , blood pouring down his shirt from a head wound , a balloon tied round his neck and a paper hat on . |
| 7 | The haze of his first cigarette clouded the room briefly and in the streak of light from the curtains he saw the heaped clothes and the mark on the hotel carpet where he 'd knocked over the glass of water . |
| 8 | ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . |
| 9 | ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . |
| 10 | This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’ |
| 11 | And , although he had benefited from the publicity surrounding the death and from the cheapness of the star 's replacement , he would also have benefited from Michael Banks 's drawing power , had he survived . |
| 12 | Although he has lived in the UK since 1969 , Zarei was born in Iran and is often listed as Iranian , but he is officially a British athlete , and won an England vest when competing in the Milton Keynes 24-hour Championships in 1989 . |
| 13 | She remembered him trying to tell her , sometimes , about the sky and the Thing and where nomes first came from , and she 'd never really understood , any more than he 'd understood about the little frogs . |
| 14 | When I asked him to itemize the price , so I could add it up for myself , the total came to over £100 less than he 'd quoted for the bundle . |
| 15 | After the first success in the matter of Amy Larner , who was now comfortably situated with Dr Horrocks 's friends in Saxburgh , Edwin Frere found himself a little at a loss , for his parish proved less permeable than he had hoped to the motions of the spirit . |
| 16 | Having delayed longer than he had intended at the barrow , he even pumped the pedals on the downhill sections , always anxious about the safety of the curious evidence in his saddle bag . |
| 17 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 18 | On reporting to the tsar in 1849 , the Minister received the title of Count for providing Nicholas with more information about a group of dissidents than he had had since the exposure of the Decembrists . |
| 19 | He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed . |
| 20 | Once he had fitted in the rudder to keep the dinghy straight against the set of the tide he returned to the subject . |
| 21 | Paisley had supported him again once he had broken with the Official Unionists . |
| 22 | Once he had withdrawn from the scene their natural antipathy to landlords re-asserted itself . |
| 23 | Once he had settled into the right-back position he was impossible to move from the Palace first team ( unless illness or injury intervened , and the career chart shows that there was only one season when that happened to any serious degree ) , and he appeared there regularly until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football and threw everyone 's affairs into confusion . |
| 24 | Fleet-footed Peter Berry joined the Palace as a Junior straight from school in 1949 and became a versatile forward , who appeared in four front-line positions during five seasons at Selhurst Park , once he had graduated to the League side . |
| 25 | Once he had come to the throne , Charles quickly answered this call for religious change by promoting notable Arminians to positions of prominence in both church and state . |
| 26 | But after graduating he joined rival firm Scott Oswald to complete his formal accountancy training , although the understanding was that he would return to the family fold once he had qualified with the opposition , which he did in 1985 . |
| 27 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 28 | If he can produce no grand reason for abandoning left-wing Labour attitudes , people will be forgiven if they conclude that the change was cynical and opportunistic and that Mr Kinnock is more interested in gaining office than in doing anything in particular once he has arrived at the top . |
| 29 | It was stuffy but bearable and , despite his length , large enough , provided he remained crouched in the foetal position ; which meant he nearly gagged from the smell of almonds . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal said in Sullivan v West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 134 that although the court has power to limit the number of medical or other expert witnesses , it has no power to bar a party from calling expert evidence including actuarial evidence provided he has complied with the rules . |