Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , he lived by the church bells of London and occasionally a sundial , as did almost everyone else there . |
| 2 | ‘ But we have a hectic business schedule tomorrow , ’ he drawled as the lift doors slid open . |
| 3 | He gazed at the throat wounds with extraordinary concentration , but made no move to touch the body except to run his hand lightly over the back of the head , like a caress . |
| 4 | Always immaculately dressed , he was remembered for his invariable courtesy and charm as he moved through the hotel bars and restaurants of cosmopolitan wartime Cairo . |
| 5 | None of the items he checked affected the probe — though he gave the chess set a suspicious glance — until he moved to the wall hangings . |
| 6 | He knelt on the sanctuary steps and began the Divine Office . |
| 7 | Billy became known to Palace fans as ‘ Rubber ’ and certainly his resilience and adaptability were an unusual feature of the game of those pre-war days , for later in his career he played in the wing-half positions and then , towards the end , as a full-back . |
| 8 | And yesterday , TACP Design 's practice partner Brian Evans , a former city councillor and conservation work pioneer , showed off the prestigious trophy he received at the RICS Awards 1992 ceremony in London . |
| 9 | Roskill J said that B was in breach of an implied duty in : ( a ) not communicating to the plaintiffs ' board the information which he received from the patent agents and in taking no steps to protect the plaintiffs against possible consequences of the existence of the patent ; and ( b ) using information regarding the patent for his own benefit . |
| 10 | In 1942 he came to the Research Laboratories which Burroughs Wellcome had established at Tuckahoe on the outskirts of New York . |
| 11 | That he came with the gold ships , Cadmus , |
| 12 | At the end , assisted by the two younger priests , he came through the altar rails and sprinkled the coffin with Holy Water . |
| 13 | He arrived at the Virgin offices , breathless , panicked and still in his underpants . |
| 14 | After a 200-mile taxi journey , he arrived at the palace gates of the Maharajah of Rewa — at 2am . |
| 15 | In thunderous silence he raced to the traffic lights and had to brake hard as the lights changed . |
| 16 | He ducked down the back stairs — glad , for once , that there were so few lights working along the landings — as his visitors strode towards the front . |
| 17 | As he landed on the floor boards he gasped , ‘ Here , Gal , look at this lot ! ’ |
| 18 | When he walked through the factory gates that afternoon he 'd walked away from everything . |
| 19 | Spring and Autumn or something like that Art to regain his breath as he stepped through the swing doors into the ordered gloom . |
| 20 | He joined the company in May and is presently making arrangements to move his family from Durham where he worked as a Management Services Executive with Ramar , manufacturers of apparel textiles . |
| 21 | From 1967 to 1975 he worked in the family businesses and then decided to return and finish his PhD . |
| 22 | Sometimes he was called upon to take the deer with his own men , hounds and equipment , while on occasion he called upon the forest inhabitants to help him . |
| 23 | The woman he saw was very different from the happy , mischievous girl he knew from the ski slopes . |
| 24 | ‘ You are going to pay for this , ’ he spat at the gun muzzles forming a circle of steel above him . |
| 25 | He considered her , as he went through the routine questions about when she had last seen her sister . |
| 26 | He went around the dressing rooms , wishing everyone good luck ( even Gesner ) and congratulating everyone on a magnificent effort . |
| 27 | He bent his head to the ground , trying to catch his breath as he listened to the warning bells of the horse-drawn fire engines , heading to the inferno . |
| 28 | Rachel was furious , scurrying after her tall , arrogant fiancé , her wrist in his hard hand as he strode across the marble floors with a set face towards the exit on Des Voeux Road . |
| 29 | He lay on the goose feathers , looking at the beams , feeling the soft pelting rain massage away the binding layers of ambition , lust , wickedness , pain , revenge … |
| 30 | He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details . |