Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam of Bremen reports that Cnut had intended Swegen to rule Norway , Harthacnut Denmark , and Harold England , and the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham that he made Harold the English king , but the Encomium says that he not only promised Emma that any son of hers should be heir , but later on oath pledged the whole kingdom subject to him to Harthacnut , who received oaths of loyalty from English nobles . |
| 2 | Gandalf remarks at the same time that he sent Gwaihir the eagle to watch the River ; presumably he was the eagle Aragorn saw , but thought nothing of , as he stared out from Amon Hen on the first page of The Two Towers . |
| 3 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 4 | But once he reached Stowey the Coleridges greeted him warmly at Lime Street , where the cottage had gained another new resident only a week before : on 14 May , Sara had been ‘ safely delivered of a fine boy ’ , the child being given the name Berkeley in honour of the philosopher , for whom Coleridge was developing a great admiration . |
| 5 | McQueen , a genuine Highlander , kept the inn ( such as it was ) at Anoch and he brought Johnson the closest he had yet been to the controversies of the recent Stuart cause . |
| 6 | Gifford left me the pictures and some money , and he left Alan the house . |
| 7 | Torn between his longing to be home again , and his ambition to bring back enough money to have made the trip worthwhile , he considered extending his tour to places which had formerly welcomed him , but , in the end , his homesickness proved too much for him , and he left Frankfurt the day after his concert . |
| 8 | It was not a magical experience , enabling him to go without food for the rest of his flight , but it was a meal for the spirit that kept him nourished and firm in his intention until he reached Horeb the mountain of God ( 1 Kings 19:1–8 ) . |
| 9 | If he gave Lee the torch , he 'd let Jack and everyone else know where they were by mucking around with it , and if he did n't let him have it , he 'd most likely give them both away by having a scene . |
| 10 | He liked Hamburg and Münich , but he called Frankfurt the Machine City . |
| 11 | The honour of being the first Hearts player to captain Scotland since Dave Mackay in the Fifties was tarnished for Craig Levein when he gifted Germany the opening goal of the game after 19 minutes . |
| 12 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 13 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 14 | As soon as he reached Hoogeveen the weather deteriorated , and so did his spirits . |
| 15 | In a Christian society one can not avoid the memory of the cock that crowed to Simon Peter just as he denied Christ the third time . |
| 16 | ‘ She stirred herself at last and wrote , ’ he said as he handed Rose the letter . |
| 17 | As he handed Ben the bowl he almost expected to receive some kind of shock — a violent discharge of the child 's unnatural energy — through the medium of the bowl . |
| 18 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 19 | And I sha n't come back until I remember what the great Daybog said , " This news made the old man very sad , for he loved Yanek the best of his three grandsons . |