Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of him hankered after the poetic Victorian times when women died in childbirth at twenty leaving their partner free to get another young girl . |
| 2 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 3 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 4 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
| 5 | He passed through the green linoleumed passage and into the hall . |
| 6 | The maths he produced in the six short years before his death in 1920 is treasured for its originality . |
| 7 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 8 | Like Valter Roman , he fought in the Spanish Civil War , and had good contacts with the Soviet advisers from Stalin 's secret police , the NKVD . |
| 9 | ‘ A son , ’ he announced as the four young ones ran to his open arms . |
| 10 | Subsequently , Gorbachev left Ryzhkov looking even more embattled when he announced to the Supreme Soviet that he personally preferred Shatalin 's programme . |
| 11 | ‘ Are there servants in the house ? ’ he asked in the same low voice . |
| 12 | ‘ So how , then , do you propose we get to know each other ? ’ he asked in the same soft tone . |
| 13 | He led to the final 250 metres , before falling back to last . |
| 14 | David Damiani 's father Jean owned olive groves , extensive properties in Jaffa , Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and a soap factory which he operated inside the old Turkish serail on the hill above Jaffa not far from St Peter 's church . |
| 15 | ‘ And did you have no electricity ? ’ he probed in the same soft , lilting voice . |
| 16 | He encouraged to take the examiner 's examination and he qualified in the late 1960s . |
| 17 | Apparently he was quite charming , but as the basis of his charm seemed to rest upon the un-startling stratagem of addressing every female he encountered by the fullest possible version of her name ( so that every Julie became a Juliana , every Dot extended to a Dorothea , all Marys became Mariana , Sues Susanna , etc . |
| 18 | Beating Bowe , whom he defeated at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , is clearly next on his list of priorities and a fight in Glasgow 's Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre , which has proved itself an ideal venue for world title contests , could be a possibility . |
| 19 | The urgency and decisiveness with which he moved over the following six months contrasted markedly with his tentative performance in the post-liberation period and obviously reflected the hard lessons that he had learned . |
| 20 | In 1875 he moved to the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland as the works manager and assistant locomotive superintendent at Inchicore near Dublin , where he was responsible for making improvements to the automatic vacuum brake . |
| 21 | Although his family remained Ainsworthians , Offwood subsequently joined the Dutch Reformed Church , and there he stayed until 18 April 1629 , when he moved to the English Reformed Church of Amsterdam — a congregation affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church , pastored by John Paget [ q.v. ] and composed of a combination of ex-Separatists and Puritans . |
| 22 | Following disagreements with the Genevan authorities , he moved in the later 1960s , first to London and then to Banbury , where he died 10 November 1976 , having arranged with the University of Oxford for the bequest of his scholarly research interests ( the Voltaire Foundation ) to the Taylor Institution there . |
| 23 | In 1930 he presided at the eleventh International Veterinary Congress in London . |
| 24 | The book of hers that stayed with Pound was Private Worlds , which he reviewed in the New English Weekly in 1935 , and referred to twice in Guide to Kulchur . |
| 25 | Peeling from the back of a line-out he thundered through the Dark Blue ranks . |
| 26 | Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert . |
| 27 | He referred to the new written policy and circulated four letters from parents objecting to the proposed closure . |
| 28 | Maloney said he and Lewis were having ‘ serious discussions ’ — in other words , a row — over Lewis 's tunnel-visioned determination to force the man he beat in the 1988 Olympic final back into the ring next April . |
| 29 | Maloney said he and Lewis were having ‘ serious discussions ’ over Lewis 's determination to force the man he beat in the 1988 Olympic final back into the ring next April . |
| 30 | A founder of the Toronto Literary Club in 1836 , he contributed to the Canadian Literary Magazine ( Toronto ) and the Literary Garland ( Montreal ) . |