Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb past] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience in Gentle Jack and the speech that caused all the problems in that play stood him in good stead . |
| 2 | that experience changed him in every way . |
| 3 | The use of enamel , the brilliant understanding of colour , yes , that piece reminded him of Giuliano , though-the design was more subtle , less heavy . |
| 4 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 5 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 6 | His graphic accounts of this experience established him as anthropology 's Conrad and gave the subject the fiercely empirical tradition which is its hallmark in Britain to this day . |
| 7 | This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus . |
| 8 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 9 | This act left him with an interest in the company that was for most practical purposes worthless since the previous practice among the three member-directors had been to take the money out of the firm in the form of directors ' fees rather than shareholders ' dividends . |
| 10 | On Wednesday this campaign brought him to St Augustine 's parish centre , Larchfield Street , Darlington , where the local branch of the Samaritans were holding their annual meeting . |
| 11 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 12 | This motive led him after university away from the |
| 13 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 14 | At least he would know then about Mark , realise that at least one person in this world knew him for what he really was . |
| 15 | The boy was in Nunnery Lane when another youth asked him for a ride on the bike and never returned . |
| 16 | and this guy got him by the throat and pinned him to the wall and said Billy shut up ! |
| 17 | This observation led him to his third important realization , namely , that the tension that he had seen in his neck was causing other tensions throughout his whole structure . |
| 18 | Well he 's saying that that bloke mistook him for somebody else then ? |
| 19 | And it was n't just it was by pure coincidence , I mean his kidneys would have stopped anyway , that bloke thumped him in the pub . |
| 20 | Lord John had hoped that his friend would accompany him , but he sensed how much Manvell despised him for so easily surrendering to Sharpe 's threat . |
| 21 | After a week , Loppe handed the task back to Galiot , mentioning that business required him in Kouklia . |
| 22 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |
| 23 | That war robbed him of the prime of his career , when he was the best player in the world . |
| 24 | That disenchantment prompted him into one further expression of his views before the beginning of the war . |
| 25 | They were engaged upon this when Roger arrived , and he was so friendly and jolly tonight that Breeze took him into her confidence . |
| 26 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 27 | His infuriated wife , who had learned little of him since his departure , and had in all probability imagined him on a chain gang in some inhospitable region , had since learned that her husband was enjoying a rich existence with the high rollers of Sydney . |
| 28 | That punch put him in the Guinness Book of Records with the quickest KO in history when he flattened American Johnny Ellis in 12secs in November 1990 , and he has claimed two other victims in 19secs and 27secs respectively . |
| 29 | That victory put him within reach of the top ten . |
| 30 | Yet Binyon knew the unformulated rules of the society that he moved in , and played the game consistently as the amateur that that society required him to be . |