Example sentences of "[prep] he a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up the hill from the south-west a gentle breeze was blowing , and opposite him a huge chestnut tree , already infected with the beautiful rust of autumn , stirred in sympathy with the wind . |
| 2 | Ahead of him a morose-looking man in a cardigan was sorting through slabs of meat in plastic containers . |
| 3 | Ahead , jamming the traffic into long impatient queues , was a procession consisting of the groom sitting on a white stallion , and clutching in front of him a small boy , an empty marriage rath ( chariot ) , a brass band , twenty rogues carrying portable striplights and , bringing up the rear , a scattering of eunuchs , dancing around , soliciting money and flashing at passers-by . |
| 4 | The new myth , the myth of the siamese twins will make of him a forgotten bogey . |
| 5 | Ahead of him a shadowy figure stood a dozen yards away , both arms raised , the hands holding what looked like a gun . |
| 6 | Fourteen points put Master James eighth in the championship and Hesketh made of him a public figure , a British hope at a time when Graham Hill , Mike Hailwood and others were fading from the scene and Jackie Stewart was about to retire . |
| 7 | During the evening she caught sight of him a few times , always dancing , holding his partners very close , and managing to avoid her eyes . |
| 8 | Ahead of him a whole spinney of the tree men awaited . |
| 9 | There seemed to be a leader , an enormously tall man with a long , heavy , gold chain round his neck who bore in front of him a large picture of somebody , framed in rough wood . |
| 10 | He will be even more fortunate if he has his conviction quashed , since there was against him an open-and-shut case under section 15 . |
| 11 | He gripped a pair of reins in his hand and behind him a blaze-faced chestnut nosed at the cobbles , whilst the two wolves sat by his feet . |
| 12 | In the interests of the club , he accepted the deal , and moved to Woolwich Arsenal leaving behind him a respectable record of 65 goals in 178 appearances . |
| 13 | ( Immediately , behind him a grand procession enters , principally CLAUDIUS , GERTRUDE , POLONIUS and OPHELIA . |
| 14 | His Supremacy will leave behind him a cosmic creature which a group of utterly dedicated masters can operate . |
| 15 | His sports paper having mysteriously disappeared , the Duty Officer scratched furiously at a vast form , a flush , as ominous as a gathering storm began to show on Frau Nordern 's neck , and then the door of the office opened , the Sergeant came out , and behind him a stocky man in plain clothes , smoking a cigar , and blinking through bloodshot eyes , waved Frau Nordern forward . |
| 16 | Leaving behind him a suburban town of 100,000 people on the potato patch , Levitt went on to build bigger Levittowns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . |
| 17 | Behind him a Trojan woman storms by , hair wild — Cassandra ? |
| 18 | He has left behind him a flamboyant monument in Wellington church , Somerset , and the channel known as Popham 's Eau in Cambridgeshire , which was abandoned at his death in 1607 . |
| 19 | He left behind him a disputed succession between his kinsman , Aethelheard ( ASC A , s.a 726 ) and a rival aetheling , Oswald , allegedly a descendant of Ceawlin ( ASC A , s.a. 728 ) , who survived until 730 ( ASC A , s.a. 730 : cf. , D , s.a. 730 ) . |
| 20 | I 'll go with him a little way and perhaps we can talk . |
| 21 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |
| 22 | It had been with him a long time , long before McLuhanism had arrived to make a lot of people cry into their beer at El Vino 's and go haring after every tin-pot producer in the business . |
| 23 | with him a certain clerk , who he said was the clerk of the justice of the Forest , and made a view of dogs which were not lawed throughout his bailiwick . |
| 24 | Manco Capac carried with him a golden staff . |
| 25 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze , meeting US Secretary of State Baker in Moscow on Aug. 3 , issued with him a joint statement condemning the invasion of Kuwait and appealing for a global ban on arms supplies to Iraq . |
| 26 | The system was introduced by the general manager who had arrived in the company only three or four years previously , bringing with him a strong philosophy of participation and involvement . |
| 27 | One of the earliest defectors to the West was the Russian Igor Gouzenko who with considerable difficulty sought asylum with the Canadian authorities in September 1945 , bringing with him a vast amount of information about Russian espionage activities in North America . |
| 28 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 29 | He brought with him a thirty page document proposing a military take-over of the country . |
| 30 | Thus an English ambassador going to Stockholm in the mid-seventeenth century took with him a great quantity of household goods and even food " hard to be met with in Sweden " , as well as enough horses to fill a ship hired specially to carry them . |