Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [prep] [art] [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 | A member of the Eugenics Education Society , the Clerical and Medical Committee of the BMA — where he campaigned for a stronger moral lead from the profession — and the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease , he moved freely between religious , political and scientific spheres . |
| 3 | He was on permanent peg 2 in Hollinhey Bay where he tipped with an open-ended swimfeeder and gozzer maggot in six feet for a netful of skimmer bream . |
| 4 | He thought of her on the night train to Newcastle ( where he knew of a kindly , broadminded landlady who would see her through her trouble– , and shuddered sympathetically . |
| 5 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |
| 6 | An ill man , he returned to his brother James 's farm , where he died at the early age of forty-seven , 19 October 1799 . |
| 7 | He persuaded her to bring her husband home , where he died within a few weeks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He threw out a hand , clutching at empty air , then fell backwards , tumbling head over heels down the steps , finally crashing to a stop at the bottom , where he lay in a spreading pool of blood . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 12 | Between 1647 and 1649 he was based in The Netherlands , where he acted as a major source of intelligence on economic and scientific affairs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was educated at Ealing County Grammar School , where he was awarded a state scholarship and a minor open scholarship to Christ 's College , Cambridge , where he graduated as a senior optime in the mathematical tripos ( part ii ) in 1935 . |
| 15 | He was educated at Shrewsbury School ( 1893–8 ) , where he was captain of cricket and head of the school , and at Christ Church , Oxford , where he graduated with a third class in classical honour moderations in 1900 . |
| 16 | Except he lived in a big house up on the Ridge . |
| 17 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yet Sidonius belonged to the same aristocratic class as Salvian and the early ascetics of Lérins , although he belonged to a younger generation . |
| 20 | 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 , |
| 21 | Consider , for example , Kloppenberg 's assessment of Sidney Webb : ‘ Although he passed through a Comtean phase that permanently altered his perspective from liberal individualism to organic collectivism , he had shed the positivist 's confidence in ultimate certainties as inconsistent with empiricism and democracy by the time he proclaimed himself a socialist in 1886 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Allen climbed a tree but although he climbed to a high bough and hung there swaying like a squirrel they were in a low-lying bowl of forest and he could see neither the Smoke nor the last rays of the westering sun but only leaves . |
| 25 | Although there is no clear evidence , reference made in Van Gogh 's letters indicates that the sexton 's house was on the north side of Turnham Green ( now Acton Green ) , and although he referred to a Methodist school , in all probability the church at Turnham Green was another of the non-conforming denominations and it seems likely that the little wooden church at Turnham Green , which he had sketched , was the earliest Congregational Church , sited off Chiswick High Road , opposite to its junction with Chiswick Road , and just west of King 's Place , The little church was probably in use prior to the erection , in 1878 , of the large Congregational Church on the adjoining sit . |
| 26 | Kondratiev 's basic proposition was that the advanced capitalist economies as a whole ( although he concentrated on a selected few only ) go through cycles of booms and slumps in a regular pattern . |
| 27 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 28 | Immediately he disappeared through the open window . |
| 29 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 30 | 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 . |