Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admitted in the first of the series that providing serfs with land seemed to pose insuperable practical difficulties , but in the last he argued " that the acquisition of landed property on the part of the peasants can be accomplished durably and even quickly " . |
| 2 | While Enzo Ferrari always had the ability to attract the best drivers in the world , including the one he regarded as the best of all — the legendary Italian Tazio Nuvolari — the one man he never managed to get was Britain 's Stirling Moss . |
| 3 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
| 4 | When Edward III of England invaded France , John went to Philip 's aid and fought at the battle of Crecy where , as R.W. Seton-Watson describes it : ‘ giving the reins of his horse to two of his companions , and shouting the battle-cry of ‘ Prague' ’ , he charged into the thick of the fray and , blind as he was , soon went down fighting ( 26th August , 1346 ) . |
| 5 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 6 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 7 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 8 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 9 | Wordsworth felt that he wanted to return to England , settle down , and never go abroad again ; as he stated in the last of the ‘ Lucy ’ poems , written two years later : |
| 10 | ‘ Because that 's the way it is with us , ’ he returned with the faintest of smiles . |
| 11 | He fielded in the shortest of positions , sometimes almost touching the batsman , and without helmet , visor or shin guards . |
| 12 | He worked among the poor of the Shankill Road , and later became an evangelist in America . |
| 13 | He watched with the direst of misgivings as Cleo began slapping a path for herself through the wilderness ahead . |
| 14 | He decided on the easiest of all the alternatives . |
| 15 | He talked of the hundreds of thousands who traded away their votes so as not to register for the community charge . |
| 16 | A kind of domestic diplomatic service , representing the British — or what he saw as the best of the British — to the British . |
| 17 | He died on the 23rd of April , in the year 1616 . |
| 18 | He knew the power and the reality of the Holy Spirit in the church of his day , when he wrote in the 60s of the first century . |
| 19 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |