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

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1 He was an Apostle and a prizeman , though his zeal as president of the Union condemned him to a second in part ii ( 1904 ) after a first in part i ( 1902 ) of the classical tripos .
2 After his death , the Maori honoured him with a lying-in-state at Pipitea Marae , near Wellington Cathedral , and a karanga ( lament ) by two kuia ( older women ) who remained with the casket throughout the ceremonies .
3 From that moment on , the Kremlin saw him as a ‘ realistic ’ politician — in other words , as one who urged the people to accept the invasion .
4 He died in May and the Seales buried him in a shallow grave in a park .
5 As preparation for his new appointment the BDA sponsored him on a two-year course at Bulmershe College , now Reading University , for a certificate in youth and community work , which he duly obtained .
6 Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life .
7 Aware of Trevor 's previous record , the FA sentenced him to a 152-match suspension , a ban of four years .
8 The only thing he knew for certain was that the law forbade the Trunchbull to hit him with the riding-crop that she kept smacking against her thigh .
9 He stood greeting guests in his dinner jacket , standing alongside Balestre , whose presidency of the FIA kept him in the limelight .
10 In 1989 , for instance , the 53-year-old former ‘ polytechnicien ’ , Yves Sillard , was appointed head of the DGA : he was not yet 30 when , in I 965 , the CNES entrusted him with the construction of the Kourou space centre .
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