Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved as the elderly people from the bus moved , but without their caution because a red Post Office van had to swerve to avoid him . |
| 2 | He moved towards the first Apache , holding his drink , his elbow sliding along the edge of the bar until he was right next to the Apache . |
| 3 | He turned to the other staff officers who were crowding into the room . |
| 4 | It was people like this who crucified Jesus , because they hated the mercy he showed to the common people . |
| 5 | He acted as the intellectual cavalry , seeking out new fields , harrying the enemy with his pen and probing unknown territory . |
| 6 | Today he walked past the expensive fish restaurant where he had planned to lunch and into a steam-clouded fish-and-chip shop . |
| 7 | Haig had seen action in the Sudan in 1898 and at the Battle of Omdurman , where he served with the Egyptian cavalry . |
| 8 | He began in the then Sales Department and has retained a special interest in the public house operations side of the business . |
| 9 | Friedlander used many of the formal devices he developed during the earlier series but also conveyed the different working environment of a new , light industry . |
| 10 | He looked at the two people standing by him . |
| 11 | He did not benefit much , scoring 23 before he snicked Snell 's out-swinger , as he did in the first innings , to be caught by the keeper . |
| 12 | The first casualty of the match was , for a change , a West Indian fast bowler , when Marshall fractured his left thumb trying to stop a shot from Broad ; yet even this worked against England , for it simply inspired him to his best Test figures when he bowled in the second innings . |
| 13 | So there he stood in the Dirty Duck , opposite Shakespeare 's Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon , 1951 , Prince of the heap . |