Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was followed about twenty years later , in 1271 , by the forecast of a purely mechanical chronometer by Robertus Anglicus ( ‘ Robert the Englishman , ) in a commentary that he wrote on the Treatise on the Sphere of Sacrobosco . |
| 2 | Indeed , the author of the work was so outraged by the Government 's claims about what was said in the work that he wrote to the Evening Standard on 1 October and said : ’ We found much to criticise about the British arrangement for training young people . |
| 3 | In the emotionally charged pieces that he wrote from the war front , Nizan pointed up the inescapable fact that the future of France was being decided on the soil of Spain . |
| 4 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 5 | On the same day that he heard of the post at Shrewsbury , however , another letter reached him , addressed in an unfamiliar hand . |
| 6 | He told him of his experience and was interested to know that the phenomenon is by no means unknown and the other went on to relate another incident involving footsteps that he heard outside the office , but when he opened the door to investigate no one was there . |
| 7 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 8 | The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action . |
| 9 | Well in a sense we were able to give this very quiet manner and very enthusiastic , very explicit , very kindly , very polite erm man his chance to relive for a moment erm this great contribution that he made in the past . |
| 10 | It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble . |
| 11 | He was a man of considerable literary taste ( I must report , in all modesty , that he subscribed to the Informer and never missed these ‘ jottings ’ ) who died , so the authorities would have us believe , by falling into an empty swimming-pool when drunk on hard-to-come-by malt whisky . |
| 12 | This interconnection between the political and the literary was again visible in the reports that he sent from the Aragon front in August 1936 , following the outbreak of the civil war . |
| 13 | Despite the size of the stables and the fact that he belonged to the world of flat-racing where appearances count for something , Short had made no compromises . |
| 14 | It is likely that he belonged to the friary in Nottingham ( he refers to the rivers Trent and Derwent as if they are familiar to him ) . |
| 15 | His tone suggested that he disapproved of the notion . ’ |
| 16 | The first forest that he imposed upon the world is the world in which I live and through which you are journeying . |
| 17 | He was not sure that he cared about the plot , if one existed . |
| 18 | Castro subsequently admitted that he had been opposed to the removal of the missiles , and his adamant refusal to allow US inspections to be carried out on Cuban territory ( despite Soviet pressure ) testifies to the anger and resentment that he felt over the fact that matters which vitally affected Cuban sovereignty were settled without his knowledge or consent . |
| 19 | In Spain , the Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia ( 1240-c.1291 ) had propounded a mental discipline that he compared to the science of harmony and music . |
| 20 | From 1237 until 1245 he seems to have acted as one of the stewards of the king 's household , a post that he combined with the sheriffdom of Gloucestershire ( 1238–46 ) and more briefly with the justiciarship of the southern forests ( 1241–2 ) and the seneschalship of Gascony ( 1243 ) . |
| 21 | Garvey was so drunk when he got back to the pageant that he knocked over the ladder twice before opening the trapdoor . |
| 22 | Melissa stared at the two slabs of raw meat that he took from the refrigerator and felt her appetite vanish . |
| 23 | That he came with the gold ships , Cadmus , |
| 24 | It was there , in Hanover , about 1716 that he came to the notice of Frederick , Prince of Wales . |
| 25 | el-Kefevi likewise says that he came in the reign of Mehmed I and adds " during the decade of the 820s ' , which would mean that Fahreddin Acemi arrived in the early 820s . |
| 26 | It had never occurred to her that he came from the sort of background where servants were a matter of course and all one had to do in order to eat was pull a bell . |
| 27 | She discovered that he was nineteen ( a year younger than her ) , that he came from the Kovno province of Poland and had escaped with his widowed mother and two elder brothers and young sister . |
| 28 | She wrote that he went into the theatre as an ‘ unknown boy beatnik ’ , and came out ‘ mobbed by the crowd ’ . |
| 29 | The thought appalled him so much that he went into the attic and slid back into bed without saying anything more to either of them . |
| 30 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |