Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Carrie 's bruvver Danny was a good boxer , ’ he went on amiably. ‘ 'E used ter box in the army . |
| 2 | Well everybody that was working for him had always worked in the quarries all their life , and they er they just been working for the slater company before the quarry shut down . |
| 3 | He taught initially at a junior school in Berkshire , then at a grammar school , and later at Downe House , where he became well known on the art-teaching circuit when his pupils won ( for two consecutive years ) a national art competition and their work toured internationally . |
| 4 | He became highly acclaimed amongst the Irish-American community for his so-called ‘ Morrison visas ’ . |
| 5 | I believe he became dangerously fascinated by the idea of having one sex merge into the other . ’ |
| 6 | Entering New College as an undergraduate in October 1880 , he became deeply stirred by the social and imperialist ideas current in Oxford at the time . |
| 7 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 8 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 9 | In attempting to return to Afghanistan in 1840 , he became accidentally embroiled in the Baluchistan revolt and was imprisoned by the British authorities without either charge or good reason ( described in Narrative of a Journey to Kalat , 1842 ) . |
| 10 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 11 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 12 | He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work . |
| 13 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 14 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 15 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 16 | He tried hard to get into the spirit of the thing . |
| 17 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 18 | Relations between Modi and Madame Hébuterne became so strained , with Jeanne refusing to give him up and Madame cursing him and his art , that after a time he moved away to stay in the Hôtel Tarelli , 5 Rue de France . |
| 19 | She looked round her bedroom and saw that David had left his wristwatch on her bedside table ; the scent of the citrus aftershave he used still hung in the air and when finally , in despair , she turned and buried her head in the pillow , the bed beneath her was still warm with the imprint of his body . |
| 20 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 21 | Describing the DC as " a rotten apple with a healthy core " , he proposed chiefly to build on the existing cross-party support for his proposals to reform electoral law by referendum . |
| 22 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 23 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
| 24 | He fished a wad of papers from his top pocket as he strolled across to cut through the retaining rope on the tarpaulin . |
| 25 | If he played strictly according to the rules , the king had to combine some of the qualities of general , prize fighter , judge and monk . |
| 26 | It was in fact a humble beginning , for the cast was enormous and his crowd work was not exceptional ; he received neither credit in the programme nor any mention in the press for his direction . |
| 27 | In Russia he 'd mostly listened to the progressive rock records that cool Russian youth adored . |
| 28 | But to have to sit here and pretend interest in an endless parade of painted mannequins wearing bored looks and the ridiculous fashions he 'd already glimpsed in the huge sketches plastered on the wall as decorations — Nicolo shifted again . |
| 29 | Maybe he 'd already started up the stairs when he heard the lady coming down and dodged round them to hide . |
| 30 | He 'd probably asked for the best sherry available , she rightly guessed . |