Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action . |
| 2 | He plays with the quintet in a quite different sense from that in which they play at revolutionary politics ; though , bemused by him , set at odds , their purposes deflected and their fantasies fed and coaxed along , it does n't seem like playing to them . |
| 3 | When he succeeded to the throne in 1625 , Buckingham became his chief minister . |
| 4 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1770 , and was not yet twenty years old when he rescued Coleridge from probable death on the banks of the River Otter . |
| 5 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1822 and spent the remainder of his life as a leading public figure in Lincoln , of which he became high steward , and its county . |
| 6 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1871 , left India in 1878 , and settled in Oxford . |
| 7 | The Deputy Treasurer , who was in charge of the Court 's books and its daily business , was Nicholas 's elder brother John , whom he succeeded in the post in 1622 . |
| 8 | Then Sir Beaumains … rode all that ever he might ride through marshes and fields and great dales , that many times he plunged over the head in deep mires , for he knew not the way , but took the gainest way in that woodness … |
| 9 | Then one day he chanced upon an ad in the Evening Standard inviting aspirant comics for a new venture above a Soho strip club called the Comedy Store . |
| 10 | I hope that Mr. Blackham will remember them when he turns on a tap in his own kitchen . |
| 11 | He points to a spot in the grass about ten yards away . |
| 12 | He points to the increase in ‘ global cultural synchronization ’ through which information dependent countries are made more similar in commercially relevant areas to the information-independent countries from which most of the messages they receive about the world emanate . |
| 13 | Like other writers he points to the way in which political direction colours practice , and recognizes too that there may be conflicts within research itself , as there are amongst practitioners . |
| 14 | He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 . |
| 15 | He passed through the archway in the garden wall of Sea House , opening the white iron gate and leaving it open . |
| 16 | He passed through an opening in a wooden fence into the yard , which was lit only by the light from within the house . |
| 17 | As he tramped up the hill in the pale sunshine , Jack 's thoughts turned back to Sir Arnold Hammond , Jonathan Ram , the meteorite and the Worm . |
| 18 | ‘ I see 97,307 people died last year of acute myocardial infarctions , ’ he remarks to an official in the Department of Health , trying to keep his tone conversational , as they go through the tables of statistics together . |
| 19 | A non dancer by nature , he swirled around the stage in a glorious celebration of newly liberated frustration . |
| 20 | Jean-Paul at first resisted ; eventually , when Edouard pressed him , and after changing their proposed schedule three times , he agreed to a week in the autumn of 1950 , when he would be on leave . |
| 21 | Abel had his workshop on the first and second floors of the tall house and made intricate jewellery which he sold to a shop in Hatton Garden . |
| 22 | He goes to a school in the Tene Valley , it 's a teacher that , he used to go to Exeter school and the teacher 's opened her own school and , only for lo a small time and then she 's opening up actually in Exeter but this is an in between and she 's a very good teacher ! |
| 23 | We suggested that goes to the window will be interpreted as meaning that ‘ he goes to the window in the living room ’ , whereas goes to a club will be interpreted as meaning ‘ goes to a club in the same town ’ , i.e. not ‘ in the living room ’ , nor even ‘ in the same house ’ . |
| 24 | He goes on a newspaper in Marie 's room . |
| 25 | An infra-red scanner winks its inflamed eye at him as he goes into the lounge in search of reading matter . |
| 26 | He sits on a bench in his braces , |
| 27 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 28 | He is notorious in Islamabad because he argued for the cut-off in American aid to Pakistan , implemented last autumn . |
| 29 | He argued in the cabinet in July 1954 that the credibility of the Western deterrent would be enhanced by the multiplication of nuclear bases . |
| 30 | Old Joseph had by now grown so blind that he rode with a child in his lap to guide him , and so was spared the sight of this first intrusion . |