Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A member of the Eugenics Education Society , the Clerical and Medical Committee of the BMA — where he campaigned for a stronger moral lead from the profession — and the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease , he moved freely between religious , political and scientific spheres . |
| 2 | He was on permanent peg 2 in Hollinhey Bay where he tipped with an open-ended swimfeeder and gozzer maggot in six feet for a netful of skimmer bream . |
| 3 | David Tory , the president of the Open Software Foundation , has added another directorship to his CV , joining the board of directors at Service Systems International Ltd where he sits alongside an old colleague , chairman of the board Sam Goodner . |
| 4 | He thought of her on the night train to Newcastle ( where he knew of a kindly , broadminded landlady who would see her through her trouble– , and shuddered sympathetically . |
| 5 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |
| 6 | His father retired in 1813 to London , and Auldjo was educated at Atwood 's School in Hammersmith , and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he matriculated as a pensioner in 1823 but did not take a degree . |
| 7 | He went to South America , where he died of a fever . |
| 8 | He persuaded her to bring her husband home , where he died within a few weeks . |
| 9 | He threw out a hand , clutching at empty air , then fell backwards , tumbling head over heels down the steps , finally crashing to a stop at the bottom , where he lay in a spreading pool of blood . |
| 10 | Geoffrey Reginald Giles was born at Coventry on Dec 17 1936 and educated at Bablake School , Coventry , and Manchester University , where he qualified as a doctor in 1960 . |
| 11 | He went on to Westminster Hospital Medical School , where he qualified as a doctor in 1954 . |
| 12 | After short periods as a lecturer in mathematics at King Alfred 's Teacher Training College in Winchester and as a technical researcher in aircraft vibration for de Havilland , he joined the Meteorological Office as a technical officer in 1938 , where he served as a weather forecaster in fighter and reconnaissance groups . |
| 13 | Back once more , Vincent moved to another village , Cuesmes , where he lodged in a house divided in two . |
| 14 | On the ramp he cut a frankly glamorous figure , where he moved like a series of elegant decisions . |
| 15 | Later Petri taught in Berlin , but resigned in protest at the dismissal of Jewish colleagues in 1933 , making his home in Zacapone , Poland , where he participated in a Summer School . |
| 16 | The blast took the oriental in the right shoulder , knocked him off his feet and hurled him clear across the room , where he crashed to a stop with his head and shoulders propped against the far wall . |
| 17 | PRINCE Harry wo n't get a visit from Prince Charles or Princess Di today — his eighth birthday — at the Berkshire school where he started as a boarder last week . |
| 18 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 19 | He placed it on a bale of straw and pulled up an upturned bucket as a chair before hopping on to a meal bin where he sat like a pixie on a toadstool with his arms around his knees , regarding me with keen anticipation . |
| 20 | In reply to BS Berlyn 's letter in the December issue of Credit Management where he complain about a creditor 's inability to enforce judgment against its debtor when a winding-up petition has been presented against that debtor , I can only say that he is ignoring one of the fundamental concepts of English insolvency law , that all creditors should be treated equally when their debtor becomes insolvent . |
| 21 | ‘ The eventual aim ’ , wrote Alexander Cockburn in Student Power ‘ is the cementing of a revolutionary bloc with working-class forces ; but the immediate power of the student lies in his university , his college , where he works as a student . ’ |
| 22 | Between 1647 and 1649 he was based in The Netherlands , where he acted as a major source of intelligence on economic and scientific affairs . |
| 23 | He was rushed to the intensive care unit at Liverpool 's Alder Hey Hospital where he stayed for a week before being transferred to a rehabilitation ward . |
| 24 | Unlike his cousin , Alexander 's nephew , Sidney Gilchrist Thomas [ q.v. ] , with whom he was to collaborate , Percy received a complete education , first at Felsted School , and then at the Royal School of Mines ( 1868–71 ) , where he trained as a metallurgist and analytical chemist and was Murchison medallist in July 1870 . |
| 25 | Nothing is known of his early schooling but he attended Slough Mechanics ' Institute in the late 1860s and the Royal School of Mines , where he trained as a chemist . |
| 26 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 27 | He served in the US Army Signals Corps during the latter stages of the First World War before settling in Onawa , Iowa , where he worked as a teacher and ran a sweetshop in his spare time . |
| 28 | He was educated at Ealing County Grammar School , where he was awarded a state scholarship and a minor open scholarship to Christ 's College , Cambridge , where he graduated as a senior optime in the mathematical tripos ( part ii ) in 1935 . |
| 29 | He was educated at Shrewsbury School ( 1893–8 ) , where he was captain of cricket and head of the school , and at Christ Church , Oxford , where he graduated with a third class in classical honour moderations in 1900 . |
| 30 | Mr Devlin is the son of a surgeon , and was educated at Dulwich College before moving on to the London School of Economics where he graduated with a BA in modern history . |