Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 2 | Using all the propagandist flair he had deployed against slavery in the Congo , Morel ran a frankly racist campaign against what he called ‘ The Black Horror on the Rhine ’ — the ( mythical ) sexual marauding of African troops stationed with the French occupying forces . |
| 3 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 4 | The prominence he had given to instruction in science had evidently made matters worse . |
| 5 | He poured into the telephone a long and unintelligible narrative about Profumo 's villainy in relation to the unhappy answer he had given to Wigg about the army . |
| 6 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 7 | Poindexter 's conviction was quashed in a split two-to-one judgement on the grounds that the recollection of trial witnesses had been tainted by testimony which he had given before Congress under immunity in 1987 . |
| 8 | He had written on behalf of a friend ‘ whose great curiosity in fruit has been terribly disappointed by the nurserymen ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I laugh almost like an insane person when I cast my eye backward on the prospect of my past two years , ’ he had written to George in February . |
| 10 | In the introduction he had written in reference to Jakobson and Jones " s " shakespeare 's verbal art in Th'expence of spirit " that " There is too much information , not all of which is relevant to a critical understanding of the text " ( p. 7 ) . |
| 11 | In April 1981 he was again arrested for articles he had written in association with democracy activist Xu Wenli , tried in May 1982 and sent to prison . |
| 12 | Henry looked at the pages of script he had written in praise of the man he had helped on the way to eternal bliss , and found this to be true . |
| 13 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 14 | He had flown to Manchester with his temporary Scottish foster mum and a social worker , who had given Gareth a thorough check-up for emotional problems . |
| 15 | All Penny Seu Chen could tell me when I returned on Friday evening to find you gone was that you and he had flown to Hualien for the weekend . ’ |
| 16 | I suggested to Wilson that there had to be a short cooling-off period , after which Max Aitken would be a suitable person to go to Rhodesia as an unofficial ambassador , since in the war he had flown with Smith in the RAF and they had become good friends . |
| 17 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 18 | The ground and the weight seemed too much for him and he had retired from contention before the penultimate fence . |
| 19 | On his last visit home , to the university city of Uppsala , he had met with countrymen of his sister 's husband . |
| 20 | Green had developed a passion for a university law student he had met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 21 | On principle , Hurley refused to share information with the Germans and British , except when he needed their cooperation for controlled deliveries through Frankfurt and London , but , braving his disapproval , Coleman made a point of renewing his friendship with Hartmut Mayer , the German police officer whom he had met in Munich during the 1972 Olympics and who was now the BKA 's liaison officer on Cyprus . |
| 22 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 23 | The Lancastrian , Henry Tudor , when he heard of what had happened , gathered a force in France and landed in Wales — where he had lived for part of his life — and he opposed Richard III , who was killed in battle in 1485 . |
| 24 | Though he had lived for weeks for this hour he now felt a wild surge of resentment towards McQuaid as he came into his own house . |
| 25 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 26 | He had lived in Normandy for seven months , he had learned the French language and come to love the French countryside , yet now , just as if he had never met Lucille , he spoke of the french as a hated enemy . |
| 27 | A 24-year-old ex-marine , he had lived in Russia for nearly three years and , since returning to America , had joined a pro-Castro group . |
| 28 | He had lived in Stepney for most of his life and had come to South London to work for Joe Maitland when the warehouse opened two years ago . |
| 29 | Remind me to tell you some time over a beer ’ — he had lived in Shetland for five years working on the rigs . |
| 30 | An opponent of the Egyptian government , Gen. Saadeddine Chazli , 70 , was arrested on March 14 as he arrived from Algeria , where he had lived in exile since the late 1970s . |