Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] he [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 2 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 3 | Both the porter and the guards welcomed him like a long-lost brother . |
| 4 | Once a virtuous king , whose subjects hailed him as a god , he was killed by his jealous brother Seth . |
| 5 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |
| 6 | Shamlou 's dark eyes held him in a contemptuous gaze . |
| 7 | When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious . |
| 8 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 9 | Instead of barking and attacking him , though , the dogs greeted him as a friend . |
| 10 | His own studies led him towards a much-modified Congregationalism , with a threefold ministry of evangelists , pastors , and teachers . |
| 11 | David Elsworth chose this race to give Barnbrook Again his preliminary for the King George VI and the topweight winner of all his four races last season was made the 2-1 favourite , though some optimistic betting forecasts had him as a ridulous 8-1 chance . |
| 12 | Mrs Summerchild was not available last night for comment , but neighbours described him as a reserved man who was devoted to his family , and who had a passion for music . |
| 13 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 14 | For no reason he could think of the rooms reminded him of a deserted stage set when the play has ended its run and the actors have gone . |
| 15 | The Headmaster himself was an aloof and somewhat austere figure in public , betraying his emotions only twice — when he announced , on the afternoon of 11th November 1918 to the assembled school , the signing of the Armistice , and when some sixth-formers presented him with a gift to mark his marriage . |
| 16 | The Muslims saw him as a Russian , the Russians saw him as a Muslim . |
| 17 | Hayling in turn was delighted to meet a man whose friends described him as a ‘ non-conformist ’ compared with most City types , and one who had strong views about the way City investment was dominated by political advantage . |
| 18 | So social scientists interpreted him as a cultural determinist ? |
| 19 | There were plate-glass windows on three sides of the office … and what Cardiff saw through those windows brought him to a halt . |
| 20 | His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons — but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance , such as Nicolas Ridley 's promised poll tax rebate of £130 millions . |
| 21 | His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up . |
| 22 | Three men wearing balaclava-type masks dragged him to a perimeter fence where the attack took place . |
| 23 | Despite his artistic pretensions , he was apprenticed to a local steel mill , where two accidents left him with a permanent limp and the loss of three fingers of one hand . |
| 24 | From then on the pretty servant girls eyed him with a lustrous regret and redoubled their attentions . |
| 25 | Later , Slovene and Croat historians depicted him as a martyr to the cause of Slav resistance to foreign rule , because the nobles against whom he rebelled were Germans , Hungarians or Slavs who had adopted the culture of their Habsburg masters . |
| 26 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 27 | He said the two men attacked him with a tyre lever , hammer and a craft knife . |
| 28 | A pensioner 's training in the SAS saved him from serious injury when two men attacked him with a knife . |
| 29 | A MAN must carry out 80 hours community service after a court heard yesterday how fingerprints linked him to a break-in at a Llandudno hotel in which seven televisions were stolen . |
| 30 | While three men scrubbed him with a stiff yard broom , the rest of us stood to attention in front of the trough and sang ‘ Képi Blanc ’ . |