Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb past] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this convinced him of how essential was religious practice to all civilizations . |
| 2 | A break of 83 put him in front for the first time adding a 70 clearance in the sixth after Wattana led 58-0 . |
| 3 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 4 | His final round of 73 left him on 279 , five strokes behind the winner , Australian Peter Fowler , who shot 67 for a two-stroke triumph . |
| 5 | The Cambridge deputy orator of 1957 commended him for his ecumenical work , and as the tireless pastor of the northern province , and made no mention of his academic originality — perhaps the ghost of Bethune-Baker still peeped through a window of the Senate House . |
| 6 | The dynamic campaign then waged under his command during the late summer of 1936 drew him into the spotlight as Nationalist Spain 's most successful general . |
| 7 | They had some fine players in their side — Cameron , herby Taylor , Mitchell , Bell , Balaskas , Morkel , Vincent — but Australia had Bradman ( 806 runs at 201 ) and Grimmett , whose 33 wickets for 557 placed him behind left-armer Ironmonger , who took 31 for 300 in the series . |
| 8 | Daphne Rye , the top casting director , looked after him following his demob and in 1948 ushered him into the West End in a literary play — from a book by Elizabeth Bowen — Castle Anna , which Daphne herself directed . |
| 9 | The martyrdom of his father in 203 left him with a cold antipathy to the pagan establishment , whether in government or in high culture . |
| 10 | He was also closely associated with Stephenson in his experiments with steam locomotives , and in 1821 accompanied him to Darlington , where they met Edward Pease [ q.v. ] and discussed the projected Stockton–Darlington railway line . |
| 11 | His provision of seventy hides of land for Benedict 's new foundation in Wearmouth in 674 and a further forty hides for his parallel foundation in Jarrow in 681 associated him with the two houses , which were to become pre-eminent in Northumbrian monastic culture and scholarship . |
| 12 | His 25 League goals in 1960–61 put him as runner-up to Johnny Byrne in that promotion season and he remains only behind Byrne 's figure of 30 for the highest number of strikes in a post-war League season of up to 46 games . |
| 13 | His appointment to the staff of the Borodin mission to the Kuomintang in 1924 brought him into contact with hundreds of young Vietnamese for whom Canton was the centre of Chinese nationalism ; and communism which , at this time , was still included in the Kuomintang . |
| 14 | Richard 's one recorded campaign in Aquitaine in 1181 took him to Gascony . |
| 15 | Murchison recognized the boy 's ability , arranged for his entry to the Royal School of Mines , where he studied under Thomas Huxley and ( Sir ) Andrew Ramsay [ qq.v. ] , and in 1862 recruited him to the Geological Survey of Scotland . |
| 16 | But a new administration in 1807 sent him on a futile mission to conciliate Denmark , following the British bombardment of Copenhagen . |
| 17 | Dr Thomas Arnold in 1836 described him as a man of incomparably greater genius than any of the Anglican divines and theologians , and to have given a far truer and more edifying picture of Christianity . |
| 18 | An accident in 1957 left him with a metal plate in his head , but the vehicle licencing authorities were well aware of the fact and Mr Collett held a PSV coach driver 's licence . |
| 19 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 20 | Not only did the King fail to punish him , he granted him additional revenues , and in 1703 elevated him to Earl of Stair . |
| 21 | As a Unitarian he was debarred from holding civic appointments or public office , but , following the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828 , for the annulment of which he had campaigned , the corporation of Newcastle in 1832 invested him with the highest judicial function in their gift , the recordership , and shortly afterwards with the honorary freedom of the city . |
| 22 | A return to Italy in 1923 saw him in Venice , Turin , and at La Scala , Milan . |
| 23 | William Swainson in particular congratulated him in an enthusiastic letter , written from his house in St Alban 's : |
| 24 | A further exploration with von Wissmann in 1939 took him from Aden , through the almost unknown highlands to the north-east as far as the Wadi Jirdan and on into Hadhramaut , the results appearing in his Aden to the Hadhramaut ( 1947 ) . |
| 25 | It has long been an axiom of the Labour Party that MacDonald 's actions in 1931 marked him as a traitor to the cause . |
| 26 | He loyally implemented Nehru 's policies of anti-colonialism and non-alignment , and in 1954 accompanied him to China . |
| 27 | I remember the English critic Philip Hope-Wallace saying that her Lucia with you in Berlin in 1955 robbed him of sleep for a week . |
| 28 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 29 | When the Tory-dominated House of Commons predictably decided in favour of the two Tories , " the Mobile " celebrated the news by carrying an effigy of one of the Whig candidates " round the Towne , shouting and huzzaing , and at last threw him into a Bonefire , and burnt him as a Martyr to the dying Whigg Cause " . |