Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is echoed in many of his poems and particularly in ‘ A Farewell ’ , where he describes the rivulet flowing to the sea : |
| 2 | This is a slightly different scene to the one Tennyson portrays in the same setting in his poem ‘ The miller 's Daughter ’ , where he describes the miller consuming a beverage : |
| 3 | Possibly the earliest mention of what are probably Anglo-Saxon graves is that by the thirteenth-century chronicler Roger of Wendover in his Flores Historiarum where he describes the excavation by monks of St Albans in 1178 of ten human skeletons at Redbourne , Hertfordshire , believing some of them to be the bones of St Amphibalus ( Hewlett 1886 , 115 ) . |
| 4 | A few minutes later Silas led Lucy into the office , where he checked the telephone 's answering device for messages , then , having unhooked it from the phone , he said , ‘ There you are — it 's all yours . ’ |
| 5 | The first young patrolman , PC Bartholomew , took him up to the bedroom , where he checked the body 's pulse at wrist and neck , took its temperature and the temperature of the room . |
| 6 | A Corporal was indicating to Lovat where he thought the firing was coming from . |
| 7 | In 1872 Ellerton was appointed rector of Hinstock , Shropshire , where he began the research for Notes and Illustrations of Church Hymns ( 1881 ) and to compile with W. Walsham How Children 's Hymns and School Prayers ( 1874 ) . |
| 8 | This was pre-eminently the case where the Area Boards were united in opposing the Central Authority or the Government ( as on the Clow differential ) , though Citrine was more willing to give in to such pressure on matters where he respected the Board Chairmen 's views , such as tariffs , than on matters where he was determined to impose his own , as in labour relations . |
| 9 | Gary Corbett , who 's 19 , and from Nailsworth in Gloucestershire , was taken to Bristol Crown Court under escort , where he denied the murder of nine month old Danielle Simpkins , the daughter of his girlfriend at a block of flats at Nailsworth on March 20 last year . |
| 10 | How he obtained this skill is not recorded , but it may be significant that he visited Ravenna , where he befriended the poet Arator . |
| 11 | He was a remarkable soldier and for his pains was given a domain at Jičín ( where he re-planned the town ) , the dukedom of Friedland and the duchy of Mecklenburg . |
| 12 | Harry had Mossop drop him off at Brockenhurst station , where he commenced the journey back to Swindon , happy to find himself alone among anonymous travellers , able to concentrate at last on all the implications of what he had learned . |
| 13 | The son of a miner , Ronald Eyre was born at Mapplewell , Yorks , on April 13 1929 and educated at Queen Elizabeth 's Grammar School , Wakefield , and University College , Oxford , where he became the secretary of OUDS . |
| 14 | The assault was over in seconds and Mr Norrie ran in to a local church where he asked the warden for help . |
| 15 | One day , Jimmy Coutts cycled in to work ( he ‘ lived out ’ with his wife and young family in a village near Cambridge ) , and said that he had seen a telegraph boy delivering a telegram at a house opposite his , where he knew the wife of one of the air crew officers at Oakington lived . |
| 16 | The other , Benedict XIII , fled to the castle of Peñiscola in north-east Spain , where he spent the remainder of his days : the Council deposed him in July 1417 . |
| 17 | He had a large house , Elsinge Spital , in the City , and , from 1583 , a country residence , King 's Place , Hackney , where he entertained the queen , to whom he also lent money . |
| 18 | He obtained a scholarship to Pembroke Hall , Cambridge , where he laid the foundation of the great learning for which he was later renowned , acquiring knowledge not only of Latin , Greek , Hebrew , Aramaic and Syriac , but also of fifteen modern languages . |
| 19 | Picking through the Health Secretary Mr Kenneth Clarke 's references in Thursday 's acrimonious emergency debate in the Commons , where he said the claim amounted to 20 per cent , union leaders publicly pared down their demands . |
| 20 | By means not specified , from Portugal he arrived in Victorian England , where he got the idea that Lady Laetitia Winthrop ( played by a ‘ discovery ’ from the world of modelling , whose acting talent was 36-23-36 ) was his long-lost love from a world before the subterranean cavern . |
| 21 | Where he got the drink was a mystery , and if we asked him , he would only laugh . |
| 22 | He has also played the lover , as in Green Card where he played the Frenchman in search of a permit to stay in America . |
| 23 | It would appear , however , that Chalmers is content at the Greenyards where he considers the quality of the coaching to be among the ‘ highest at club level in the UK . ’ |
| 24 | There was , Aunt Margaret said , a safe in their bedroom where he kept the money until he took it in to the bank at the end of the week in the massive , gleaming , opulent-looking calf-skin briefcase with a very large lock . |
| 25 | A trip to Eaglesham followed , where he met the Duke and Benson . |
| 26 | By the 1120s and 1130s Abbot Peter the Venerable was visiting Rome on several occasions , and undertaking , in the year 1130 , journeys to England and Provence , where he met the pope at Saint-Gilles ; and in 1135 to Pisa as well as about France . |
| 27 | Like the Rachmaninov D minor Concerto before it , where he consulted the composer and made sanctioned changes , the Barber Sonata became completely identified with Horowitz , who in this case gave its world-première performance . |
| 28 | When he heard of the disappearance of Mrs Wilks , 22 , he drove back down the motorway and noted the marker post number where he saw the car . |
| 29 | He was educated first in Gainsborough , Lincolnshire , and then , owing to illness , at home where he had the run of a large library . |
| 30 | He had been expelled from grammar school at the age of sixteen , manufactured tie-dye T-shirts , and then worked in the refreshment kiosk in the monkey-house at London Zoo , where he had the distinction of organising the first strike ( of staff , not animals ) in the zoo 's history . |