Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] he [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those for whom he had the greatest contempt — a band of counterfeits — emerged from the Paris Conservatoire and were fils de papa . |
| 2 | Mozart had become acquainted with the choirmaster there , Anton Stoll , for whom he wrote the exquisite motet Ave verum corpus . |
| 3 | Serious negotiations for James 's return began only after the deaths of Albany and of Henry V of England , and after he had married the Duke of Somerset 's daughter , Joan Beaufort , for whom he wrote the moving love poem King 's Quair . |
| 4 | For them he covered the war years in Ulster . |
| 5 | De Klerk visited the UK , the Netherlands and Morocco in October , and Foreign Minister Botha toured Eastern Europe in November , after which he noted the establishment of consular relations with Czechoslovakia and Romania . |
| 6 | The Treasurer was Joseph Barnard , who had established himself as a coal merchant in Bedford by 1773 , after which he founded the bank which bore his name . |
| 7 | Before he reigned he had , by Doña Sancha his wife the Infanta Doña Urraca , his eldest daughter , who was a right excellent lady , and after her he had the Infante Don Sancho , his eldest son and heir ; and then the Infanta Doña Elvira , whom after the death of the King her father , her brother King Don Alfonso married to the Count Don Garcia de Cabra . |
| 8 | He devoted the rest of his life to bringing order to the parliamentary records after what he called the ‘ negligence ’ of his predecessors . |
| 9 | The last was probably his strongest card , and no one who heard this broadcast on May 28th could doubt that it was the one about which he cared the most . |
| 10 | He held up his arms for a kiss and she melted into a sleepy hug and kiss , during which he had the final word and spluttered dribble against her cheek . |
| 11 | President Roh Tae Woo made a three-day official visit to Japan on May 24-26 , during which he met the Japanese Prime Minister , Toshiki Kaifu , and Emperor Akihito . |
| 12 | But you just do your job ’ Severin Carrell recalls his visit to The Royal Scots in Ulster during which he met the young Scottish soldier who on Wednesday became the province 's 3,045th victim |
| 13 | Mahathir visited Thailand on March 24-25 , 1990 , during which he discussed the question of common refugee camps for Cambodian refugees . |
| 14 | But insiders close to Blundell confirmed the deal was agreed and says he is almost certain to return after one year out of competitive Formula One racing , during which he won the Le Mans 24-Hours classic alongside fellow Briton Derek Warwick . |
| 15 | He lifted his head , his face grey with outrage , and firmly closed the book before he looked round at all the carefully respectful countenances ringing him round like the pales of a fence , a barrier through which he found the only dignified way , at someone else 's expense . |
| 16 | But Anselm may have shared their disappointment : the tasks for which he felt the full weight of personal responsibility were very harassing , and his success in performing them was open to serious doubt . |
| 17 | The New Sculpture is written off as ‘ a meaningless period in English sculpture ’ ; Gill is ‘ more like a predator than a collaborator ’ and even his typography is dismissed with contempt ; we hear twice that Muirhead Bone , a steadfast and astute supporter , was an unimaginative artist ; Charles Holden 's London Transport Headquarters at 55 Broadway ( for which he received the RIBA Medal ) is ‘ practical but dull ’ ; and the love-hate relationship with Moore is superficially handled . |
| 18 | They had four sons , the eldest of whom , Captain W. R. Colbeck , RNR , was surveyor with the British , Australian , and New Zealand Antarctic research expedition of 1929–31 , for which he received the Polar medal ; Sir Douglas Mawson [ q.v. ] named the Colbeck Archipelago after him . |
| 19 | Using Welsh lamb he created an eye-catching display in a domed circular cabinet for which he received the Three Countries Gold Medal and a cheque for £500 . |
| 20 | The fact that the Queen was pro-German would have been particularly hurtful to the Emperor personally , for only he had not succumbed to the general enthusiasm for a war he had never wanted and for which he feared the country was ill-prepared . |
| 21 | Mr Bowles also worked in New York at theatres like SoHo Rep , where in 1984 he conducted Mandrake , a musical for which he wrote the score . |
| 22 | His mentor , Tolkien , had brought a touch of genius to the art of the glossary , and Norman Davis followed him with distinction in the glossary to Bennett and Smithers , Early Middle English Verse and Prose and in the Chaucer Glossary , for which he enlisted the help of three Oxford colleagues . |
| 23 | In 1878 he joined the tract committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , for which he edited the Manual of Parochial Work ( 1888 , revised edn. 1892 ) . |
| 24 | ANDREW JEFFORD , the author of Sainsbury 's The Magic of Champagne , for which he won the Prix de Lanson Award 1991 . |
| 25 | In 1972 Hollywood suddenly sat up and took notice of him again when he had two consecutive hits , Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather , for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor . |
| 26 | Stuart had told me that Aj ( whose name is short for Arnold Junior , after the Head Forester of whom he became the spitting image when he first came to work at Clumber as a woodsman ten years ago at the age of sixteen ) was a dab hand with a tractor . |
| 27 | There were bags inside , and in one of them he caught the gleam of gold . |
| 28 | There was widespread regret when Butler resigned , in 1935 , to join the Agricultural Research Council , of which he became the first paid secretary . |
| 29 | Pasteur was drawn into the field of bacteriology , of which he became the great pioneer ( together with Robert Koch [ 1843–1910 ] , a German country doctor ) , through industrial chemistry , more precisely the analysis of why beer and vinegar sometimes go bad , for reasons which chemical analysis could not reveal . |
| 30 | Davie Jess , a well known wag , entertained his mates with a flood of stories , many of which , as he said later , John Robertson , a man known to have a fine voice was asked to sing a song ; the only songs of which he knew the words were all hymns and soon rescuers gathered in the control room on the surface heard a strong , clear rendering of The Old Rugged Cross coming to them over the internal telephone system , with more than 100 trapped miners joining in the chorus . |