Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | He retained both the Downing Street Policy Unit and the CPRS , regarding them as complementary . |
2 | When he phoned up the Scotland Yard Press Bureau the woman who answered said it was she who had fixed up Nicola 's first contact with the Drugs Squad . |
3 | He wandered down the Rue du Rhône , admiring the window displays . |
4 | Trance-like he drove down the Edgware Road , responding to the multitudinous traffic lights with mechanical movements , while the agitated Eleanor continued to lash his unreceptive ear with a never-ending stream of abuse . |
5 | Store manager Richard Northover was dumped there by the two masked raiders who 'd kidnapped him as he locked up the Woolworths store . |
6 | He singled out the United States as a leading supporter of the democratic process in Congo , but described French support as " measured " . |
7 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
8 | Later in his career , when his delicate health forced him to give up racing , he took over the Danebury stables from John Day , and became renowned as a trainer of steeplechasers as well as flat racers . |
9 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
10 | Hong Kong 's achievement in Catania has been Simpkin 's first success since he took over the Hong Kong representative side . |
11 | Archbishop Romero , although thought to be a moderate when he took up the Archbishopric , proved himself to be a zealous proponent of Liberation Theology , broadcasting his masses , which included political messages , to the people throughout the country , by radio . |
12 | Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R–101 , obviously an enthusiast from an early age . |
13 | Roe admits that in his quieter moments he sometimes wondered if he would ever win a second tournament and those doubts were intensified earlier this season when he saw both the Jersey Open and the Murphy 's English Open wrested from his grasp . |
14 | He brought in the Pulqui Mark 1 , which lost three test pilots in crashes before being scrapped as an idea to be replaced by the Pulqui Mark 2 , which also crashed in trials killing more . |
15 | Johnson 's first task was to ensure a smooth transition of power , and for the time being he kept together the Kennedy team . |
16 | Prince Yuan was a clever one , there was no doubting it , so perhaps he understood why the T'ang had appointed him to oversee the Project rather than someone more sympathetic . |
17 | With the support of his younger brother James he bought out the Hibbert interest in 1854 and renamed the firm Platt Brothers and Co . |
18 | He lead out the Jack of Hearts . |
19 | Apart from building fourteen piers , he carried out the Devon and Somerset railway , Exmouth docks , Ilfracombe harbour , and the West Surrey waterworks . |
20 | ‘ See that ? ’ he said , and then he held up The Hook . |
21 | He held up the TARDIS key , rubbing it thoughtfully . |
22 | He set up the Koetser Foundation in Zurich in order to acquire Old Masters and donated seventy works to it . |
23 | In May 1987 , in a £98 million deal , he picked up the Garfunkels restaurant chain . |
24 | Glancing to his left , he wondered why the Bogeyman chose to live in a room on the first-floor landing instead of making his lair in the cellar , where he would surely feel more at home . |
25 | He wondered why the Fanshawe business kept intruding and upsetting his concentration , and then suddenly he knew . |