Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , after impassioned protests from Bishop John Fisher , he agreed to the less contentious formula : ‘ especial protector and as far as the law of Christ allows even supreme head . ’ |
| 2 | He got into the most terrible row with one of the other fellows during the election for master a couple of years ago . |
| 3 | These subtleties , however , were lost on Joseph because the dryness of the speech had caused his attention to wander and he gazed round the richly furnished audience chamber with awestruck eyes . |
| 4 | Keynes 's struggle to break free from the classical economics with which he was so profoundly imbued , and his recurrent comparisons with what he regarded as the most powerful , though flawed , alternative approach to macroeconomic matters , were almost totally ignored . |
| 5 | The mid-fourteenth-century English Dominican , John Bromyard , launched into what he regarded as the increasingly unChristian spirit of those , both knights and common soldiers , who went to war with the vilest of intentions and ‘ oaths and curses in their mouths ’ . |
| 6 | The official news agency Tanjug had reported on April 3 that Yusuf Zehjnulahu , the Chairman of the Kosovo provincial assembly ( i.e. the provincial Premier ) , had resigned his post in protest at what he described as the excessively brutal tactics employed by the Serbian authorities towards the ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 7 | But when he spoke , he had his audience hanging on his every word as he described in the most modest terms , what was clearly an arduous adventure , expertly carried out . |
| 8 | But instead he wandered past the neatly laid-out kitchen garden , strangely reluctant to give up this rare moment of peaceful solitude in the sun . |
| 9 | Gong show VIC REEVES , the big lummox , was on television the other night dropping the gong he received for the most original programme . |
| 10 | Well , in that case , sir , ’ he turned to the most senior of the senior officers , ‘ I think we might as well start . ’ |
| 11 | It was only when he turned to the more immediate problem of finding a way through the waste of mud that Zen noticed the figure lying slumped against the wall . |
| 12 | He , more than anybody in sport , personified cool : he boxed with the most consummate self-assurance , drifting around the ring almost somnambulistically , often dispensing with his guard and rapidly discharging clusters of punches . |
| 13 | The QGM was awarded for the ‘ outstanding bravery ’ he displayed in the most difficult and hazardous situations . |
| 14 | The QGM was awarded for the ‘ outstanding bravery ’ he displayed in the most difficult and hazardous situations . |
| 15 | In 1841 he embarked on the most important phase of his career , as a pioneer photographer , opening a daguerreotype portrait studio at 57 Marine Parade , Brighton ( 8 November 1841 ) . |
| 16 | Previously shown at Washington 's Corcoran Gallery , where the tour was launched almost exactly forty years after his first one-person exhibition held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1951 ; at the Menil Foundation in Houston and at Chicago 's Museum of Contemporary Art , ‘ Robert Rauschenberg : The Early 1950s ’ concentrates upon the artist 's activity between 1949 , when he enrolled at Black Mountain College after a short apprenticeship in Paris , and 1954 , when he embarked upon the most important series of works of his career , the combine paintings and constructions . |
| 17 | March 1853 and he died at the very early age of thirty-seven , on 29th . |
| 18 | Hitler 's speech had its background in Germany 's strengthened position since the Munich settlement , in his determination to force the pace in foreign policy in 1939 , and — in its tone of heightened aggression towards the Jews — in the anger he felt at the increasingly strong anti-German feeling in the USA and in Britain which the Reichskristallnacht pogrom had greatly fuelled . |
| 19 | Finally , he attended to the most intimate places between her thighs by coaching her to open wide her legs , so that all her personal nooks and crannies could be saturated with the greasy oil . |
| 20 | As he looked across the now peaceful Green , he found it was surprisingly easy to imagine it filled with men and women in uniform fighting for a cause they truly believed in . |
| 21 | He stared at the serenely impassioned garden made out of a whirl of yellow brushstrokes , a viridian impasto , a dense mass of furiously feathered lines of blue-green , isolated black pot hooks , the painfully clear orange-red spattering . |
| 22 | The Public Prosecutor pointed Zen out with one finger , and as everyone turned to look he slipped through the suddenly passive ranks to the safety of his office , closing the door firmly behind him . |
| 23 | From such ideas he formed dances which did away with pointes but retained much of the classical footwork which he co-ordinated with the less familiar action of the arms and hands . |
| 24 | ‘ I have a settled squad , and I have a team who are performing , ’ he said after the most convincing performance of his 27-match reign . |
| 25 | Three years later Dr H. J. Hewitt published his influential book , The organization of war under Edward III , 1338–62 , in which , rather than describe activity of a narrow , military kind , he wrote about the relatively unglamorous background and preparation needed for war at that time and , indeed , ever since . |
| 26 | felt that this was very encouraging , but after the matter was discussed some years ago , he wrote to the then seventy-five North American members to establish the degree of interest in forming a separate Division . |
| 27 | Boece was the friend of Erasmus ; and Erasmus became the tutor of James IV 's illegitimate son Alexander , Archbishop of St Andrews , whose death at Flodden he mourned with the most moving grief . |
| 28 | He pointed towards the rather lumpy piles of sand near the water 's edge . |