Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the ways in which Upper Palaeolithic man differed from his predecessors lay in the use he made of the skeletal structures of his food animals . |
| 2 | Mr Larkin is haunted by memories of a visit he made to the secluded woods at along with Marie Pettitt , Gary 's mother . |
| 3 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 4 | Lambert watched it as long as he could , but his own plane was losing height , and he limped over the British lines at fifty feet . |
| 5 | They watched in silence until he came closer , then , as he swooped between the grey walls of the drawbridge and came clattering into the courtyard over cobblestones that were now covered only by a thin film of slush , Marc deliberately removed his arm from around her waist . |
| 6 | William Graffunder , an expatriate German and the promoter of an organisation in Cardiff which he registered as the Amalgamated Seamen 's and Tradesmen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland in September 1890 , likewise made no bones about its connection with the Shipping Federation in the supply of " free labour " , though he denied being its official . |
| 7 | His slender figure was plunged first into light then into shadow as he passed before the slitted windows . |
| 8 | He recalled Blaney 's pallid and innocuous watercolours of the better-known beauty spots of Norfolk : Blakeney , St Peter Mancroft and the cathedral at Norwich , which he produced for the local shops . |
| 9 | Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens . |
| 10 | Jones ' best data did not exist until 1989 ; by the time that he met with the two chemists he had measured ‘ run number 6 ’ ( see Figure 4 , page 69 ) which is shown in his paper as the most dramatic signal and which proved to the BYU team 's satisfaction that they were right . |
| 11 | Here he argued with the European leaders of Protestantism , from Karl Barth downwards , over the difference between a Catholic and a Protestant idea of the Church . |
| 12 | But when he argued over the great issues of human belief , he still did so in the tone which he reserved for the politics of the pavement and the public baths , the voice pitched somewhere between a sneer and a snarl . |
| 13 | Increasingly he resorted to the crudest measurements of progress and methods of achieving it . |
| 14 | Now , as he rode through the darkened streets , he caught sight of that face in the window , and perused it ruefully . |
| 15 | He fought against the United Nations troops in the attempted Katangese secession of nineteen sixty to sixty-two . |
| 16 | " Are you " he choked on the dry words , began again . |
| 17 | He led on the easy bits , followed and pushed on the worse sections . |
| 18 | She does n't know how he got through the main doors and an electronically operated gate to get in to the courtyard where the car is always left unlocked . |
| 19 | And it did n't worry him when he got into the sensitive parts with his drill ; my strangled cries were of no avail and he carried on remorselessly to the end : I had the impression that Hector thought it was cissy to feel pain , or maybe he was of the opinion that suffering was good for the soul . |
| 20 | He gazed at the deep reds , purples and blues that dominated the central figure in the painting , feeling certain he 'd seen the image somewhere before . |
| 21 | He gazed at the two scraps of blue thread and the single button as if they were the contents of Aladdin 's cave and then turned admiring eyes on Melissa . |
| 22 | He gazed at the two Sub-prioresses who were staring fixedly at him . |
| 23 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 24 | He qualified for the light-middleweight semi-finals by beating Norway 's Ole Klemetsen . |
| 25 | He rejoiced in the large numbers becoming Christians and carefully recorded them . |
| 26 | He bumped into the double doors of the courtroom as they opened out towards him . |
| 27 | Given the various elements present in Eliot 's mind , it is hardly surprising that he found in the thundering drums of Stravinsky 's ballet , Le Sacre du printemps , the equivalent of the myth he sought . |
| 28 | Well that 's the way to play I think , against Philip Tufnell , around the bat , plays natural games , you swing it away , swing with the tie , hit with the spin , insignificantly again the next delivery was a rank one which he cracked through the off sides . |
| 29 | Boxing : Colchester Boxing Club 's Andy Farrow showed his versatility when faced by a tricky opponent as he moved into the national schoolboys under-42 kilos semi-finals.Up against a spoiling boxer in the shape of Greg Algar of Eltham BC at Sandwich , Farrow persevered and kept himself out of trouble to win by the narrowest of points decisions.The judges awarded the fight to the 14-year-old Alderman Blaxill pupil 60–58 , 59–58 , 58–60 . |
| 30 | As he moved towards the two men , Harry savoured the moments of secret observation that preceded their awareness of his presence . |