Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 2 | If challenged to justify why blacks are struck from the jury , prosecutors offer the most ridiculous reasons — ‘ he looked dumb ’ , ‘ he lived in the same part of town as the defendant ’ ( most blacks live in the same part of town ) , ‘ he was a mason and I was worried about masonic links ’ ( the prospective juror was a stone mason by profession ) . |
| 3 | Huss is remembered by a street named after him ( the Hussenstrasse ) and by his effigy on the house where he lived in the same street . |
| 4 | He lived in the same house near Henley on Thames from 1935 , and remained inspired by English country scenes , like St Matthews near Lechlade and classic buildings like the Oxford buildings ensuring that his links with this region remain strong . |
| 5 | He lived in the same house near Henley on Thames from 1935 , and remained inspired by English country scenes , like St Matthews near Lechlade and classic buildings like the Oxford buildings ensuring that his links with this region remain strong . |
| 6 | ‘ I am taking you to Jaén , ’ he announced after a few miles . |
| 7 | In his later life he became for a few months nearly as famous as Ramsey , though in a different context . |
| 8 | ‘ Are there servants in the house ? ’ he asked in the same low voice . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's dead too ? ’ he asked in the same cold , interrogative voice . |
| 10 | ‘ So how , then , do you propose we get to know each other ? ’ he asked in the same soft tone . |
| 11 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 12 | ‘ And did you have no electricity ? ’ he probed in the same soft , lilting voice . |
| 13 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 14 | Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier . |
| 15 | Many years later , in the ‘ time of early love ’ , he wandered in the same area , which was now invested with ‘ youth 's golden gleam ’ ( see Elegiac Stanzas , p. 140 ) . |
| 16 | He seemed to get over it , but he behaved in the same alarming manner in court this morning . |
| 17 | He played for a few seconds with the animal 's jewelled collar then turned his eyes on me . |
| 18 | Jolosa stormed : ‘ If he played in the same league that I do , he 'd end up in trouble too . ’ |
| 19 | Where did he begin his career ? — with Banbury United , and he played in the same youth side as me . |
| 20 | He sees the month in New Zealand , where he played against the All Blacks in 1985 , not as a final proving ground but as a searching test of known ability and attitudes . |
| 21 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 22 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 23 | He came to no more meals , and Roland feared Fergus thought this was a function of his , Roland 's , resentment . |
| 24 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |
| 25 | He came to the same conclusion as Duncan . |
| 26 | Gamekeeper John Bosher returning to the Blenheim estate wood where 10 years ago he came across a half decomposed body . |
| 27 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |
| 28 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 29 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 30 | Last autumn he came within a few minutes of death when he slashed his wrists with a razor blade . |