Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim did his best to shrug inside the ropes wrapping him to the chair . |
| 2 | The Muslims saw him as a Russian , the Russians saw him as a Muslim . |
| 3 | Regular work for New Society and the Times launched him as a freelance editorial illustrator , and he has an impressive list of clients — in the '80s he drew all the covers for Penguin 's new editions of Anthony Burgess ' work , and his work has appeared in the Independent on Sunday , Observer , Radio Times , New Scientist , American Esquire and — among other things — in numerous advertisements and promotions for whisky in the UK , Ireland and the US . |
| 4 | The joys denied him as a man he would forgo for those of a child-man . |
| 5 | Both the porter and the guards welcomed him like a long-lost brother . |
| 6 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
| 7 | His wife failed to persuade the judges to include him amongst the prisoners released in the celebrations of the coronation of Charles II , and in her bitterness told them that her husband was being denied justice because he was a tinker and a poor man . |
| 8 | The Indians regarded him as a medicine man and his apple-tree enthusiasm , odd clothing and religious devotion — he distributed religious tracts torn in parts for widespread circulation — started many folktales . |
| 9 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 10 | He asked the parents to tell him about the children , their tastes , their likes and dislikes . |
| 11 | Instead of barking and attacking him , though , the dogs greeted him as a friend . |
| 12 | His reports on the collections brought him to the notice of the British scientific establishment and led to his appointment as naturalist in HMS Bulldog during a voyage under the command of Sir Leopold M ‘ Clintoch in 1860 to investigate a possible northern route for the proposed north Atlantic telegraph cable . |
| 13 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
| 14 | Various dangers , such as snakes and scorpions , threatened him , but with the magic of the gods to cure him from a poisoned bite and with marsh dwellers helping to watch over him , Horus grew to manhood and set out to do battle for his rightful inheritance with his uncle , Seth . |
| 15 | The gods turned him into the flower that bears his name . |
| 16 | In the last year of his life Carleton 's connections with the tightly knit Puritan gentry of the midlands involved him in the Puritan literary conspiracy of the Marprelate tracts . |
| 17 | For no reason he could think of the rooms reminded him of a deserted stage set when the play has ended its run and the actors have gone . |
| 18 | The passengers pulled him onto the rock . |
| 19 | At the House of Commons he could at least rely upon one of the whips to put him in a cab , and pay the driver . |
| 20 | His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons — but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance , such as Nicolas Ridley 's promised poll tax rebate of £130 millions . |
| 21 | Mr Hikmatyar , whose strength springs largely from the favours shown him by the Americans and Pakistanis in the 1980s , is now ‘ prime minister-designate ’ of Afghanistan . |
| 22 | Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march , and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen , the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance . |
| 23 | Kick him in the bollocks kick him in the head . |
| 24 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 25 | It does n't cost much for the ships to take him as a passenger , and it keeps him happy . " |
| 26 | One of the youths slashed him across the nose and he needed eight stitches in the wound . |
| 27 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 28 | but , I did hear something , I do n't know whether it 's true , that the doctors took him off the |
| 29 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 30 | A story appeared in the papers in the usual tabloid style which said that Linford had a secret criminal past and that the police viewed him as a dangerous , vicious character . |