Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now retired and living in Woodside , Barnard Castle , he left Tyneside to become a UN civil servant based in Washington DC , in the USA , where he worked with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund . |
| 32 | In the summer of 1914 Braque was once more at Sorgues , while Picasso spent his time between Sorgues and Avignon , where he worked in the company of André Derain . |
| 33 | He has a non-vocational Oxbridge degree but has been thoroughly trained in the operations of the family business and is a shrewd and capable manager with some 32 years of practical experience ( plus 5 years in the army , where he rose to the rank of major ) . |
| 34 | When the Devil was driven from the centre of the Divine Drama , as he was by the medieval scholastics , he resurfaced elsewhere among the superstitious beliefs of medieval Europe , where he remained despite the Reformation . |
| 35 | The Syrians performed the task swiftly , and Aoun was forced to take refuge in the French embassy , where he remained at the end of the year . |
| 36 | In business for himself , first near St Paul 's , but by 1812 firmly established at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ( where he remained for the rest of his career , apart from an enforced absence during the rebuilding of 1838–44 ) , Wilson became the determined champion of a free press — ‘ It is like the air we breathe ; if we have it not , we die . ’ |
| 37 | It was to this much dive-bombed , shelled and strafed position — described as a forefinger poking into Rommel 's midriff — that Leslie came , and where he remained throughout the summer and autumn , constantly in action . |
| 38 | Three years later James Walker , a past president of the Institution of Civil Engineers , appointed him principal assistant in his London office , where he remained until the beginning of 1862 . |
| 39 | Captain John Nisbet fought in the battle and , although he escaped from the field , he was hunted by the Dragoons for the rest of his life . |
| 40 | Although he returned to the School staff after the war , he was later compelled to spend some time in a sanatorium . |
| 41 | The Tories were in some disarray after the association of some of their leaders with Jacobite intrigue : Oxford was impeached and sent to the Tower in 1715 , and although eventually acquitted in 1717 , his political power was effectively destroyed ; Bolingbroke fled abroad , and although he returned in the 1720s to play a leading role in the propaganda campaign against Walpole , he was not allowed to resume his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 42 | These illustrations show slightly more freedom in architectural treatment than Scott used in the competition , as The Civil Engineer and Architects ' Journal said , although he adhered to the general principle of uniformity , |
| 43 | Maurinus , cantor in the royal palace , had effectively challenged Eligius to do so , by searching himself , although he died in the attempt . |
| 44 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 45 | The outrage was enormous , he was stripped of the captaincy and , although he played in the Tests of that year , his career was over . |
| 46 | It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton . |
| 47 | He did really well as a novice a year ago in some top class races in Ireland and , although he fell at the seventh in last year 's Gold Cup , he should be a more mature horse and a better jumper this season . |
| 48 | He reiterated one of the problems that dogged him throughout life , which was fatigue ; for although he had on the whole a ‘ tough ’ constitution — at least he liked to think so — and tremendous will-power , he had driven himself very hard over the past twenty years . |
| 49 | In his theology , however , Hooker was not simply a traditionalist ; although he stood within the mainstream of the Calvinist consensus on the issue of predestination , he challenged many of the assumptions held by both credal and experimental Calvinists . |
| 50 | But although he smiled in the face of the direst provocation , underneath he was as determined as Ricky to go to ten . |
| 51 | He is planning to vote for Paddy Ashdown 's party — although he objected to the Liberal-SDP merger — in Bow and Poplar , the London constituency where he lives . |
| 52 | His indifferent oratory is well known , and he never held office , although he aspired to the Office of Works . |
| 53 | Although he sat on the fence with the rest of London 's Jews during the noisy campaign of Rabbi Manasseh ben Israel [ q.v. ] of Amsterdam to secure a public readmission of the Jews to England , eventually he was forced to show his hand . |
| 54 | He was called to give evidence at this morning 's hearing , but , although he appeared at the witness stand he exercised his right to remain silent . |
| 55 | Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can . |
| 56 | Although he trained with the England A team during the winter and felt optimistic , he was in pain again before he left for Portugal and looked on the tour as a ‘ make-or-break ’ exercise . |
| 57 | On this occasion Chatichai was forced to relent and Chalerm was demoted , although he remained in the government as Deputy Education Minister [ see p. 37857 ] . |
| 58 | In front of it was the kitchen garden , which was the only part of the grounds to be kept in order , for Adam Diggory , although he grumbled at the necessity , was obliged to tend it as it provided most of the vegetable produce for the household table . |
| 59 | Holland declined to stand for Norfolk in 1679 , although he voted for the exclusionists , and stood unsuccessfully in 1685 as a trimmer . |
| 60 | A rough diamond in his earlier years , he has now become a sophisticated centre who was drafted into the Irish World Cup squad , although he languished on the bench and was never called upon . |