Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] the " in BNC.

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1 That 's good though that is. was running along a track at a constant speed he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark .
2 His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance .
3 Tilting it to one side he allowed the object to clatter onto the table .
4 In an experiment he taught the same period to two groups .
5 As a consequence of this initial perception he felt the general awareness of all staff had to be built — and built rapidly .
6 mummy he had the last cherry bakewell
7 But the man said he believed the shooting of the teenagers was ‘ wrong ’ , and that by the morning after the shooting he realised the relevance of what he had witnessed .
8 In a tough speech to the Crime Reporters ' Association he said the IRA would cease their evil trade if they could see the level of public support given to the police — much of it from the Irish community .
9 During the war he sold his interest in his galleries and went off to war ; following this six-year closure he reopened the Hans Road gallery but decided not to reopen the American galleries ; it was hard enough to get the good material for one shop .
10 This is Dickens 's final comment , and in future he avoided the topic of school education .
11 In one stride he crossed the bar , and had the young man 's collar in one hand , the other knotted into a fist beneath his jaw .
12 After test driving a Ford RS2000 police car he praised the UK motor industry for developing more environmentally friendly vehicles , including the use of alternative fuels .
13 And even that car he bought the
14 Despite Allied opposition he reconstituted the expanded Polish territory under his control as an independent kingdom linked to Russia through the person of the monarch .
15 He was returned to the Bocardo Jail , from whose roof he watched the painful death by burning of Latimer and Ridley .
16 In the Foreign Office the central block was adjacent to the park , while with the War Department he gave the judges alternative layouts .
17 As a result he became the most knowledgeable and influential European in that part of Africa and was continually being called on by traders , missionaries , and humanitarians for advice or to sort out local disputes .
18 As a result he joined the Royal Manor of Portland Athletics Club and has since run in several races for the club in the Dorset Road Racing League , although he has yet to catch up with his friend Tony Coleman from B40 Workshop !
19 In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct .
20 Without waiting for a reply he crossed the room .
21 He 's got to , Simon 's got the name and address of the kiddie he sold the bike to .
22 By a supreme stroke of irony he got the job , with the possibility of taking over as kapellmeister on the death or retirement of the ageing and sickly incumbent , Leopold Hoffman .
23 In disgust he threw the paper into the crowd .
24 For this ceremony he chose the beautiful pleasure garden of Shalimar , about five miles north of Old Delhi .
25 At yesterday 's installation ceremony he told the audience : ‘ I adopted Middlesbrough and it now turns out Middlesbrough has adopted me . ’
26 In the back of his mind he knew the air in the Base was getting staler as the crisis progressed , but he could n't afford to worry about that now .
27 With this in mind he approached the Reservoir Quality Prediction team in March and geologist Andrew Hogg and petrophysicist Susan Young set to work .
28 With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it .
29 At this point in Uncle Albert 's path around his study he reached the fireplace and caught sight of the clock on the mantlepiece .
30 Mr McNally : ‘ Is it correct that on each and every interview he denied the two charges ? ’
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