Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made for a line of scrub between two gates and waited until the street outside was fairly clear , then climbed the railings and dropped down . |
| 2 | As soon as we had cleared customs he made for a bank of telephones , and when he rejoined me he was smiling . |
| 3 | A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it . |
| 4 | Then , ignoring her indignant gasp , he made for the chest of drawers with the clear intention of searching that also . |
| 5 | Smuts 's own notes for the great speech he made on the occasion of the dinner in the Royal Gallery ( see above ) of which over 1 , 000 , 000 copies were sold in the English language alone . |
| 6 | Will he tell the House a little more about what representations he made to the Government of India on those important matters ? |
| 7 | The unrivalled versatility of ‘ The Brig ’ was shown by the contributions he made to the solution of a number of machine ciphers during World War II . |
| 8 | In the third of our series on major Scottish architects , David Walker describes the career of William Burn ( 1789–1870 ) and the important contribution he made to the planning of the Victorian country house |
| 9 | ULSTER Unionist MP John Taylor today refused to apologise for controversial remarks he made about the murder of Roman Catholics by loyalists . |
| 10 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 11 | Besides , it makes more sense to me to believe your brother was the victim of one of the many enemies I 'm sure he made in the course of his life . |
| 12 | It was an entry to international football as perfectly timed as any of the crisp , balanced tackles he made in the course of his remarkable playing career . |
| 13 | In the speech which he made in the House of Lords debate on the bill , Lord Brougham pointed out that one half of the cases where ‘ serviceable process ’ had been used were settled before even an appearance was entered . |
| 14 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 15 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 16 | David Nicholson says he lived on the end of the racecourse for 22 years and his father lived there longer than that … for him Cheltenham is the best three days racing anywhere in the world and he loves it |
| 17 | When this second marriage broke down in 1963 , Simenon was already having an affair with another maid , Teresa Sburelin , with whom he lived for the rest of his life . |
| 18 | In conclusion , it is clear that from this examination of the state of weaponry and warfare throughout the reign of Barbarossa , and given that he lived to the age of 70 , he must have experienced many of the gradual changes and improvements in arms and armour that occurred during the twelfth century . |
| 19 | His ideas appeared to bring some benefits : he lived to the age of 94 and at 87 married a young wife . |
| 20 | While employed at St Stephen 's , he lived within the parish of St Margaret , Westminster , and he was active in parish life at least from 1522 onwards ; during 1552–4 he served as one of the churchwardens . |
| 21 | It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton . |
| 22 | an undertaker and he lived near the centre of the island . |
| 23 | When A had lived x years he became the father of B. He lived after the birth of B y years and had other sons and daughters . |
| 24 | He lived in a cocoon of self justification . |
| 25 | He lived in a hall of residence but spent most of his time in the computer laboratory , sometimes staying there all night . |
| 26 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 27 | He lived in a world of his own mythology peopled by an enemy of his own creation — the Jewish Communists with the razors — who had marked him for what he was . |
| 28 | He lived in a world of fire and smoke , and was permanently black , as if he came from hell . |
| 29 | ‘ His name was Charlie Mears ; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow , and he lived in the north of London , coming into the City every day to work in a bank . ’ |
| 30 | Between Piccadilly and Putney , where he lived in the basement of a decaying Victorian house , he progressed through his usual states of somnolence , sick juddering wakefulness , and increasing worry about Val . |