Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got rid of oppositionists by proposing some impossible task , and when they failed or refused would move their expulsion , anyone who voted against automatically expelling themselves . |
| 2 | It is the fifteenth in a series called ‘ The Russian world ’ which he has created for museums in various countries over the last five years or so . |
| 3 | The envelope which he has placed inside slips beneath the table to my lap . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received from farmers about compensation for the effects of low flying on livestock . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from industrialists about the importance of reducing Government burdens on business . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from industrialists on Government intervention in the strategic direction and investment in companies . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from businesses in the north-west concerning the effects of the recession in industry . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many representations he has received from patients about NHS trusts ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received regarding increases in the incidence of ram-raiding . |
| 10 | He did not shy away from probing questions about his art or sex life ( he has gone to whores for the ‘ psychological experience ’ , claims Illona makes him so hot he can ‘ go again in 5 to 10 minutes ’ , and does n't necessarily think porn stars make better lovers ‘ if two people love each other ’ ) . |
| 11 | We have seen the bloodcurdling letters that he has sent to electors about what may happen if Labour is returned . |
| 12 | Since then he has campaigned for improvements in farm animal welfare . |
| 13 | He has come to terms with his fierce ambition and his temper , the demons that once gave him a fascination with the psychotherapy of Laing and Reich . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent discussions he has held with representatives of district councils and European Commission officials concerning the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 15 | Mikhayl Piotrovskiy is an Islamicist , and he has lectured at universities in Yemen , Kuwait , Iraq , Egypt , Jordan , Syria , Tunisia and Algeria . |
| 16 | He has slept in graveyards since being a boy and six years ago slept in a coffin to win a bet . |
| 17 | He told the Commons he has passed on complaints about Mr Fallon 's alleged abuse of Parliament 's pre-paid mailing facilities to the Serjeant at Arms . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what discussions he has had with employers regarding child care . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with leaders of African states concerning progress towards democracy . |
| 20 | Mr. Martyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what representations he has had from industries in Wales about the current economic situation . |
| 21 | Of granite , which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows , he wrote : ‘ Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad , bold and massive , rather than a small or delicately undercut character , and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish . ’ |
| 22 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 23 | At the time of interview , he had cut his habit down from 2 grams to 0.25 gram a day and was ‘ saving up ’ small amounts of methadone that he 'd bought in doses of 50ml at 5 a time : |
| 24 | He wrote a pathetic letter to his lord , describing his condition in prison where he lay bound with fetters of iron and beseeching aid from the Earl of March to secure his deliverance . |
| 25 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 26 | On his last visit home , to the university city of Uppsala , he had met with countrymen of his sister 's husband . |
| 27 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 28 | Though he had lived for weeks for this hour he now felt a wild surge of resentment towards McQuaid as he came into his own house . |
| 29 | It was pitiful , the broken blade of a dagger that he had bound with strips of rag to give him a handle , and sharpened as best he could on the edge of the stone under the window ; the worn hollow , paler in colour , was there to be seen . |
| 30 | From then on Endill was never again scared by the strange footsteps he had heard for years in the middle of the night . |