Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He folded it open at a page of stocks and shares , and as he was looking down the lists he gave the man two dollars . |
| 2 | Last week at a Press preview of ‘ Love Lies Bleeding ’ in London he told journalists he believed the Government should talk to Sinn Fein . |
| 3 | The King was on a royal throne near the entrance , and the two Bishops of Durham and Ely stood at his feet A good omen had encouraged Hugh for just as he reached the chapel steps he heard the choir in full voice chanting the words " Hail renowned bishop of Christ " . |
| 4 | Opening his eyes he saw the blood flowing from his arm , from his own bite , blossoming against the snow . |
| 5 | In other words he showed the cause to be the incapability of capitalism to maintain an equilibrium among the various elements of production . |
| 6 | His progress was predictably rapid , and after eighteen months he made the move to television , even though it was only as an assistant on Pets and Vets , an animal welfare show . |
| 7 | For the second time in three months he heard the battering sound of hobnailed boots climbing the wooden stairs to fetch a body . |
| 8 | In June 1933 Edward gave a birthday party for Wallis , and during the next few months he visited the Simpsons ' flat in London almost every day . |
| 9 | Through its columns he attacked the BDDA leadership as " slovenly , slow and cliquish " , and claimed that " properly managed , the BDDA should have a membership of at least one thousand deaf-mutes , not counting missionaries and other sympathisers " . |
| 10 | At fifty feet he squeezed the gun lever just as another block of air shouldered into the little SE5a . |
| 11 | During the course of dissections of cadaver club feet he recognized the role of muscles and tendons rather than bones in this deformity . |
| 12 | But to be sorry for him would be a mistake : he lived his life to the full , and in all his deeds he enriched the lives of others . |
| 13 | For much of the construction work on these lines he had the assistance of William and Murdoch Paterson , whom he took into partnership in 1862 . |
| 14 | Like many dance directors he imitated the Tiller style and by undercutting could offer some work . |
| 15 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 16 | With his cuts bandaged tightly with handkerchiefs and two pairs of socks inside his running shoes he managed the morning dash around the garden , but realised as each step became stickier and more painful that there was no real hope of the gashes healing while he continued to fulfil the personal fitness goals in his Training Plan . |
| 17 | Newspaper accounts of open-cast coal workings led him to Cowdenbeath in Fife and after several visits he found the remains he was locking for . |
| 18 | Over the next few decades he developed the study of plant communities in Britain , using methods similar to those of Clements . |
| 19 | After removing the contents he closed the lid again and placed the case on the floor beside his chair . |
| 20 | As an example of the combined power of both organisations he cited the success achieved by the NID following the BDDA 's resolution concerning the difficulties of deaf school leavers in finding employment in industry . |
| 21 | The hijacker has told US officials he put the pistol under his hat and placed the hat on a table as he passed through a metal detector . |
| 22 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 23 | De Barescut and Serrigny were despatched again and again to the front as Pétain 's eyes , and — like Saxe on his litter at Fontenoy — over the next days he directed the battle , shaking with fever , from his sickbed . |
| 24 | In those days he contemplated the idea that if the Church abandoned that inheritance he would have to resign his see . |
| 25 | From his tweed jacket to his patterned brogues he looked the part perfectly : not the usual designer mix from expensive shops in Milan or Rome , but the real thing , as plain and heavy as Zen imagined the English climate , character and cuisine to be . |
| 26 | In the remaining weeks he refined the calibration of the detector by exposing it to beams of neutrons of known energy , produced by a van de Graaff accelerator . |
| 27 | Each year for six years he gathered the seed and planted each grain again . |
| 28 | For the next twenty years he managed the Lyceum , organizing eight tours of the United States and Canada . |
| 29 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |
| 30 | After two years he received the certificate of the college for proficiency in chemistry . |