Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [noun prp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time when he met with Nicodemus the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Somaria in her dire need . |
| 2 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 3 | His League career was terminated by a particularly nasty injury sustained at Sheffield just before Christmas 1923 , as ten-men Palace went down 6–0 to The Wednesday and , after recovering , he moved to Folkestone the following summer . |
| 4 | Employed first by Edward III , he rose under Edward the Black Prince [ q.v. ] , and became his secretary in 1375 and an executor of his will in 1376 . |
| 5 | Also like Roosevelt , he attracted to Washington the brightest advisers he could find in the universities and the business community to fill places in the Cabinet and to surround him in the White House . |
| 6 | But he made it clear when he arrived in Perth the next day that he disagreed with Marsh 's sacking , an interesting observation given that the players ' code of behaviour specifically states that they are not permitted to comment on selection decisions . |
| 7 | These concerns were reflected in memos like this , Gordon head of the state lottery finance department was part of the team charged with evaluating G Tec 's bid , he warned on November the third last year . |
| 8 | He himself made history when , in 1984 , he donated over 1,200 pictures and objects to a foundation he established in Warsaw the first such institution since the war . |
| 9 | I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year . |
| 10 | Whatever specific qualities Donald Wilson observed in Whitaker 's style of writing , and saw as suitable for Doctor Who , can only be guessed at , but it is very likely he saw in Whitaker the sought-after bridge of writing for adults and writing for children . |
| 11 | Although not an Ulsterman himself , he gave to Ulster the charismatic lead that transformed resistance into armed rebellion , and he was a popular platform speaker with Unionists on both sides of the Irish Sea . |
| 12 | However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq . |
| 13 | In October he summoned to Amman the local notables favourable to his rule , where they asked him to put all Arab-occupied Palestine under his protection . |
| 14 | Kite was six under par when he inflicted on Clark the worst defeat in Ryder Cup singles history and in the process handed his side the initiative which for a time seemed it would n't relinquish . |
| 15 | He explained to Helen the painful discomfort of his frequent erections while they walked together and his determination to avoid masturbation . |