Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles . |
| 2 | When the Royal Society awarded Mendeleyev and Lothar Meyer its Davy medal for the discovery of the periodic law , Newlands renewed his campaign ; he eventually received the Davy medal in 1887 , but was never elected FRS . |
| 3 | In 1880 he successfully moved the Buckland yew , with a documented age of 800 years . |
| 4 | He only used the ground floor as a café , anyway . |
| 5 | He only joined the drama group because the best chicks were in plays ; he did n't especially like dancing in his mid-teens because he had become too fat ; sports interested him , and he was fanatical about basketball . |
| 6 | He suddenly grabbed the beer can and hurled it against the wall then upturned the table , sending it crashing against the cooker . |
| 7 | Siding covertly with Nasser , he progressively undermined the Suez Canal Users Association , which he himself had created , and sapped British and French confidence in American good faith with every twist in his tortuous attempts to reach a peaceful solution . |
| 8 | In 1980 , when Prince Charles introduced his charmingly unpolished bride-to-be to the media , and hence the world , he effortlessly held the centre stage . |
| 9 | He just hoped the ale wife strained the ale before she served it to Sir John ! |
| 10 | I do n't know what was said at the relief office but when Dad came back he just threw the ration card on the table in disgust . |
| 11 | It took the usual twenty minutes , and , when he finally entered the conference hall , the motion in favour of Europe was being moved by Gerry Malone , a personable Scot who was now the MP for Winchester . |
| 12 | Taking hold of a strong branch , he finally cleared the escape hatch with his legs and dropped to the ground . |
| 13 | He thus defined the preformation/ epigenesis controversy . |
| 14 | He already had the entry ticket of a couple of rejection slips — one from the BBC . |
| 15 | He already found the Iran operation bizarre in any number of ways . |
| 16 | But when the rising began on 24 April 1916 he promptly joined the rebel garrison in Jacobs ' factory . |
| 17 | ‘ Then , by the same token , ’ said the earl , ‘ you are saying that the man who finished the work was one who did have cause to want Aldhelm removed from the world , before he ever reached the abbey gatehouse . |
| 18 | He further told The Art Newspaper that completion of a new wing in 1991 has now given the Brooks the physical space to handle the attendance ‘ WONDERS ’ has drawn . |
| 19 | In their best spell just after half-time , Kenny Halliday had a penalty for Grangemouth , and he further interrupted the West flow with another penalty midway through the half . |
| 20 | He always rejected the hellraiser label but he began living up to his image when , in 1953 , he embarked on a drunken affair with Vivien Leigh while filming Elephant Walk in Ceylon . |
| 21 | He always used the side door which led into a small office . |
| 22 | But the planners he hates watched unscathed as he mistakenly attacked the housing department 50 yards away . |
| 23 | Reynolds was quite sure , however — excess of caution prevailing again — that he purposely kept the diversion memo out of North 's hands . |
| 24 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 25 | Of these victims 367 were claimed in Farnes 's games for Essex , for whom he once performed the hat trick — against Nottinghamshire in 1939 — and for whom his best performance was 15 for 113 against Glamorgan in 1938 . |
| 26 | He unsuccessfully contested the Widnes division in 1885 . |
| 27 | ‘ But yes , ’ he replied as he attentively opened the passenger door of his Skoda for her . |
| 28 | He also criticized the Blaize administration for the country 's low credit rating . |
| 29 | He also said the US administration would seek an additional agreement that would give US airlines new access to British airports and confirmed that he hoped a new aviation agreement could be reached this year between the US and the UK . |
| 30 | He also smoked the cigarettes Zborowski provided as part of the contract and managed to get through a bottle of wine . |