Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [adj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He forgot about all the strange people in the theatre , and he just played for his friends . |
| 2 | standing up at this end was a lot were you here when he went through all the old headlines of er |
| 3 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 4 | The management of the Ben Franklin chain , though , was unimpressed by Walton 's suggestion , and in 1962 he left to open the first Wal-Mart Discount City at Rogers , Arkansas . |
| 5 | All this time , nobody quite knew where he stood on all the other issues — the ones that would matter after independence . |