Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Emanuel , has an enviable clientele , but with a daughter at the College , he agreed to take charge of the charity event . |
| 2 | Like many other non-Luxembourg accountants , he applied to take advantage of the transitional regulations . |
| 3 | and he was soaked , he actually had tried first then he went round the back , the back door was closed so he tried to take shelter under the oil tank |
| 4 | He tried to slap Killion on the shoulder and missed , and ended up on the floor . |
| 5 | In 1990 he tried to register ownership of the land but his claim was opposed by the county council and residents . |
| 6 | He tried to export revolution to the rest of Latin America , while Leonid Brezhnev preferred to deal with established governments . |
| 7 | As he tried to grab hold of the beautifully-lit see-through material held by the other men in the show , he called out , ‘ Give me a bit ! |
| 8 | His responsibilities in Africa ended in 1962 and he moved to take control of the group 's European operations which were beginning to take off . |
| 9 | His declared aim was economy and he endeavoured to make use of the natural contours as effectively as possible . |
| 10 | He seemed to derive pleasure from the memory . |
| 11 | He seemed to take pleasure in the simplest things , like touring the delicatessens in search of a special cheese , or taking the water bus across the lake and just mingling with the tourists . |
| 12 | He seemed to gain pleasure from the comradeship of Art teachers ; their banter and dry North country humour . |
| 13 | He returned to base camp on the 16th , by which time hope that Wanda would return had largely faded . |
| 14 | It is the second of Mr Harvey 's voyages of self-discovery : in the first , ‘ A Journey in Ladakh ’ , written eight years ago , he began to embrace Buddhism under the influence of a monk in exile from Tibet . |
| 15 | During the 1970s he began to lose faith in the whole Freudian programme , and in his recent book , Skeptical Engagements , he provides detailed and substantially supported arguments for abandoning it . |
| 16 | It was when he became aware of the dominance of some technique which emptied the art of meaning that he began to express scepticism over the art of the last decades . |
| 17 | A few years ago he began to have discomfort in the pubic area and pain on ejaculation . |
| 18 | He started to lack confidence at the end of last season , but who would n't with that defence . |
| 19 | He started to pay attention to the fittings in the chancel and the ornaments . |
| 20 | He decided to shift responsibility for the Dutch Indies onto other shoulders , judging that anyway it was , in language he was accustomed to , a ‘ can of worms ’ . |
| 21 | He decided to take asylum in the university hospital for two years with no treatment . |
| 22 | For some reason , Hitler thought that the United States of America would be much too occupied with fighting the Japanese in the Pacific , to concern itself with Europe , so he decided to declare war on the United States on 11th . |
| 23 | Instead he decided to march south into the Great Sand Sea , a distance of nearly 200 miles , to rejoin his squadron . |
| 24 | He decided to throw caution to the wind before Selwyn came over for his tea . |
| 25 | He proceeded to construe geography as the science that deals with systems at the uppermost levels of this environmental , or atoms-to-ecologies , hierarchy although noting that some geographers may delve into systems at a more detailed and fundamental level . |
| 26 | He struggled to find sponsorship for the Formula Three and Formula Ford circuits . |
| 27 | Much was expected of Inzamam ul Haq after his World Cup performance , but he struggled to find form on the slow English pitches . |
| 28 | Thomson was born in Bangalore , India , in 1894 and was educated at the Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate , in England before he went to study art at the London Art School , Kensington , and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1920 . |
| 29 | Trent saw Mariana up on the forest edge when he went to fetch wood from the carport . |
| 30 | In September 1991 he managed to recover possession of the Czartoryski Museum and Library in Krakow , lock , stock and barrel . |