Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed out top in the Foreign Office entrance exam after Oxford and began work in Whitehall on the European Political Co-operation desk , ironically named given that at that time General de Gaulle was thwarting Britain 's European ambitions . |
| 2 | Naively he regarded it as ‘ no big deal ’ and at times he became quite testy at the attention it commanded . |
| 3 | He devoted much thought to the shape of the future church . |
| 4 | He rose up light in the stirrups , He scarce could reach her hand , but she loosened her casement , his face burnt like a brand . |
| 5 | He came out top in the mechanical engineering section of the competition , run by CAD User magazine . |
| 6 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 7 | His back window was starred where the bullet had entered so he knocked out part of the pane to give clear vision as he feared the car might be followed by other gunmen . |
| 8 | ENGLAND international Ian Archbold was in scintillating form yesterday as he clipped nearly minute off the course record in winning the Red House six mile road race at Sunderland . |
| 9 | He pulled off part of the officer 's jumper and pulled it tightly across the back of his neck . |
| 10 | With his fingers he broke away mud from the river bank and wet it in the river . |
| 11 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 12 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 13 | Interned when the government declared martial law in December 1981 , but released 11 months later , he took up employment at the shipyard in the spring of 1983 and in October of that year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 14 | A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School . |
| 15 | He went down country with the Army , and there 's a big difference between there and up here — it 's not a place where economy is considered in the same way , so maybe he learned some bad habits , such as a tendency to alcoholic drink . |
| 16 | He put out food for the rabbits , but not too near the warren . |
| 17 | Brooklyn born , he gave up academia in the 70 's to work in theatre and write plays . |
| 18 | He had a degree in fine arts from the Sorbonne ; he had further training from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , and the Beaux Arts in Paris ; he knew more about the history of jewellery design in general , and of the de Chavigny company in particular , than anyone else except the man he was going to see now . |
| 19 | After he travelled to Glasgow , he had more faith in the He 'd more , you know , |
| 20 | The other five he spread out flat at the bottom of the executive case . |