Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 2 | This he accomplished at the sea-battle of Svold , on 9 September 999 . |
| 3 | Izanagi possessed a magical jewelled spear and this he flung into the endless water , creating the first land-mass from its point . |
| 4 | This he inserted under the spring and put his own booted foot on the trap . |
| 5 | A short while after this he received from the lawyers a letter stating that his inheritance from his mother amounted to only £30,000 . |
| 6 | As has been previously noted he gave much attention to the unique colour of the Cumbrian mountains and this he combined with the sunlight and shadows falling on the hills so skilfully that it is possible for an observer with local knowledge , to tell the warmth of the sun or the time of day.Just as the mountains give colour to the lakes , so in turn do they reflect the colours of the sky . |
| 7 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 8 | This he attributed to the solo exercise . |
| 9 | Fossils from more recent strata showed progressively less similarities with time in the different continents ; this he attributed to the contrasting evolutionary paths of groups of animals and plants separated by continental drift . |
| 10 | When the Cortes returned to liberated Madrid ( 5 January 1814 ) and the Desired One to Spain , the Persians , a group of conservative deputies , petitioned the king to denounce the constitution of 1812 ; this he did in the Manifesto of 4 May 1814 . |
| 11 | Maxwell 's voice was rather high-pitched and soft , but despite this he spoke with the authority of someone accustomed to getting his own way . |
| 12 | In the 1890s he participated in the reorganization of Argentina 's external debt and in the 1900s restored Argentina 's credit in London . |
| 13 | And he also wanted Mr Fallon to make it clear he agreed with the interpretation of the 1944 Education Act saying every Catholic child was entitled to a Catholic education . |
| 14 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 15 | In 1801 he participated in the expedition to Egypt , and served in Hanover in 1805 and at the taking of Copenhagen two years later . |
| 16 | In 1808 he moved into the Wordsworths ' new house , Allan Bank , together with his two sons , and after the usual long preliminaries embarked on his new periodical venture , The Friend . |
| 17 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 18 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Nikolai Demidenko is recognised as being one of the most immensely gifted pianists of his generation … in 1985 he played with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra to a packed Ulster Hall during the Belfast Festival at Queen 's . |
| 20 | In November 1985 he resigned from the government in protest at the signing that month of the Anglo-Irish Agreement [ see pp. 34070-73 ] , stating that he could not support the government 's change of policy on Northern Ireland , including " the involvement of a foreign power in a consultative role in the administration of the province " , which he claimed would prolong and not diminish " Ulster 's agony " [ see p. 34072 ] . |
| 21 | On Sept. 30 he called on the UN to supervise local elections . |
| 22 | On Sept. 30 he called for the first time for dialogue to reach an equitable global settlement , addressing himself particularly to France which he had identified as more flexible [ see below for Mitterrand 's UN speech ] , although once again stressing that there would be no compromise over Kuwait belonging to Iraq . |
| 23 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 24 | On Sept. 22 he resurfaced in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este , declaring that he would not be returning to France to face charges because he had reason to fear an assassination attempt . |
| 25 | ‘ And when he was recovering from his sickness here in my house , I noticed how similar he looked to the girl 's face in the picture . |
| 26 | In 1874 he went to the Barrow Shipbuilding Co. as manager of the water-tube boiler department , becoming secretary in 1876 . |
| 27 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 28 | No when he says when about working extra he said through the morning or something |
| 29 | As I grew more proficient he leaned on the rail , sucked at his long clay pipe and reminisced about his days in sail or his experiences in ports from Aden to Hong Kong . |
| 30 | In 1924 he spoke in the House of Commons of the need to reduce exports . |