Example sentences of "he [vb past] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hegel himself , regarded as one of the ‘ deflated balloons ’ of German philosophy by his former French admirer , Hippolyte Taine ( 1828–93 ) , went out of fashion in his native country , and the way in which ‘ the tiresome , conceited and mediocre epigones who set the tone among the educated German public ’ treated him moved Marx in the 1860s ‘ to declare myself publicly a disciple of that great thinker ’ . |
| 2 | The first thing he did he made friends amongst the young men in the college . |
| 3 | Through his research in Norway he made contact with the former secret agent Bernhard Bergersen who was keen to ensure that the Norwegian facts were correct . |
| 4 | Similar preoccupations were at the back of the mind of Hilary Frome himself , as , with the front of his mind , he made conversation with the overdressed parents of one of the boarders . |
| 5 | He made use of the new Dover–Calais cable to transmit information , which he sold to clients , between the London and Paris stock exchanges . |
| 6 | He made use of the Cabinet-committee structure as a filter for business , though he chaired very few committees himself ( the main exceptions were the Economic Policy and Defence committees ) . |
| 7 | At the new house , he lived life to the full . |
| 8 | By contrast , Judge Lauterpacht retained this emphasis in his insistence that the General Assembly could only authorise the oral hearings if South Africa continued to frustrate the operation of the Mandate ; he laid stress on the continued status of the territory . |
| 9 | He lent prestige to the young veterinary profession by telling Moorcroft that he would , if he were a young man , follow a veterinary career himself . |
| 10 | He draped tinsel round the pink lampshades on the table . |
| 11 | Next came Cooder 's first real involvement with film-work ; over the next two or three years he produced soundtracks for The Long Riders , Southern Comfort and The Border . |
| 12 | He disputed figures in The Northern Echo poll which said 15pc were undecided and gave Labour an 11pc lead . |
| 13 | He agreed accounts of the alleged ‘ roundabout ’ payment were based on hearsay , but added : ‘ The journalists will be questioned about what they knew and even journalists will tell the truth when they are called . ’ |
| 14 | He sold cannibis to the defendent John Baillie 's sons . |
| 15 | On one occasion he met Santerre inside the main hall . |
| 16 | He was unsuccessful in his attempt to restart peace talks when he met leaders of the three factions in Sarajevo on July 3 . |
| 17 | He manufactured stories about the cannibalistic Caribs he never met : without the Admiral 's inventive mind , Shakespeare 's audience might never have encountered Caliban on Prospero 's island . |
| 18 | Simon Foster , director of the SMMT , said he expected sales in the final quarter of the year to be below those in the last three months of 1988 . |
| 19 | Greenspan stated that the probability of recession had slipped below 50 per cent and he expected growth in the first quarter of 1990 to be " slow but positive " . |
| 20 | He recommended excursions into the surrounding countryside , and for his class of people he could think of nowhere better to go than to the grounds of the ancestral mansion of Studley park , some ten miles from the town . |
| 21 | Speaker of the Long Parliament , and it was probably through his influence that ( after a short stay at St Alban Hall , Oxford ) he became secretary to the parliamentary commissioners in the Isle of Wight in 1648 . |
| 22 | In 1895 he became secretary to the British Association seismological committee for study of earth tremors and the following year he and the seismologist John Milne [ q.v. ] , newly returned from his pioneering work in Japan , became joint secretaries of its newly established subcommittee for seismological investigation , until Davison retired from this position in 1899 . |
| 23 | In 1964 , he became secretary of the then Council for Voluntary Welfare and was closely involved in the establishment of Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , War on Want , Voluntary Services Overseas and Voluntary Services Belfast , as well as the Crossing Care Attendants Scheme and Family Supports , now called Family Aids . |
| 24 | In 1908 he became secretary of the historical section of the committee for imperial defence . |
| 25 | At the request of Archbishop A. C. Tait [ q.v. ] in 1881 , he became secretary of the royal commission on the ecclesiastical courts and compiled its report ( 1883 ) . |
| 26 | Exhibiting nothing more than competence , he became keeper of the great wardrobe on 27 June 1369 , at the time when Edward III , and hence his court and government , were lapsing into passivity . |
| 27 | As a cardinal deacon , he became part of the papal " civil " service , acting on occasion as auditor of lawsuits and witnessing administrative acts of the curia . |
| 28 | Appointed KCB in 1725 , Sutton moved the address in 1726 , the same year he became sub-governor of the Royal African Company . |
| 29 | In 1904 , he became candidate for the neighbouring borough of Kidderminster . |
| 30 | After years in the wilderness , he became head of the newly-established Institute for Forecasting in the mid-80s . |