Example sentences of "he [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion he met Santerre inside the main hall . |
| 2 | He led Leeds to the English championship last season but the team 's fortunes have taken a dive this year . |
| 3 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 4 | He fixed Warton in the unrelenting stare of his cold green eyes . |
| 5 | The new WBC champion said he ranked Bowe among the best heavyweight fighters today , but was ‘ confident ’ he would beat him if the two met . |
| 6 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 7 | He told Daniel about the terrible St Rémy painting of the blasted tree , about noir-rouge , and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now , to cheer people up . |
| 8 | He told Bowe at the final press conference : ‘ You may well get lucky and catch Holyfield with a good shot . |
| 9 | Goal machine Martin McGaughey , even deadlier than Cowan at his Linfield peak , had a chance to decide for himself when he faced Smith for the first time last week . |
| 10 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 11 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 12 | Miles was silent as he followed Piper to the Technical Support area . |
| 13 | He followed Dimity into the small kitchen which smelt deliciously of gingerbread . |
| 14 | The old pub looked slightly sinister standing dark against the night sky and Billy shivered as he followed Yanto through the open five barred gateway into the back garden of the ‘ Sally ’ , as it was called locally . |
| 15 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 16 | Once he had warned them , he contacted Kragan in the main house . |
| 17 | Barnes , on as a first-half substitute , stole the game from Rangers when he released Rosenthal down the left flank in the 87th minute . |
| 18 | He touched Joseph on the shiny sleeve of his coat and nodded towards the large-faced clock on the wall above the door , " I 've got to go , Mother is expecting me home for lunch . |
| 19 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 20 | In the third game , he outplayed Karpov in the late middlegame and early ending , and then made a fatal blunder after almost six hours ' play . |
| 21 | For the third time that day he called Kuhlmann from the public box . |
| 22 | In July that year , he flew Mercury on the first ever commercial Atlantic flight with a half-ton payload , starting at Foynes and landing at Montreal some 20 hours later , navigating by astro . |
| 23 | He took Swindon from the fourth to the second within three years of arriving in nineteen eighty four . |
| 24 | He was on the pavement , waiting , when he saw Volkov on the opposite side of the road . |
| 25 | In 1950 , he represented France at the Informal International Conference of Christian Broadcasting in Chichester , UK , which was one of the forerunners of WACC . |
| 26 | Yawning ponderously , he put Clytemnestra outside the back door and while he waited for her , stood staring emptily at the cloudless , star-filled sky . |
| 27 | He put Franklin on the other side of Burns , and separated the Malcolms by making a sandwich of Bill O'Farrell . |
| 28 | He dragged Twoflower across the littered floor and up the steps . |
| 29 | Stipends were generally better in town churches : when Joseph Parker began his ministry in Banbury in 1853 he received 50s. a week or £130 p.a. although when he left Banbury for the affluent Cavendish Street Chapel in Manchester in 1858 his income jumped to £1,700 . |
| 30 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |