Example sentences of "that [vb past] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then swabbed the wash-basin clean guided Maxim downstairs and found their shoes and socks moving with a numb efficiency that abstracted him from the terrors of his imagination . |
| 2 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 3 | It was the same mentality that led him into the folie de grandeur of thinking that , having been a champion driver , he was also fitted to run a motor-racing team — indeed , to think that he was better fitted to do so than those for whom he had worked and driven . |
| 4 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 5 | It was good skill and strength that got him around the center-half ( Wetherall I think ) and his near post shoy crept in via Beeny . |
| 6 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 7 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 8 | The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory . |
| 9 | DEREK RANDALL , Nottinghamshire 's former England batsman , is recovering from a cartilage operation to cure knee trouble that hampered him in the closing stages of the season . |
| 10 | Connors left the Brazilian shaking his head in disbelief as he hit winners at will and showed the kind of form that rocketed him to the semi-finals last year . |
| 11 | It was Darwin 's fortune that spared him from the drudgery which wore out his contemporaries , and allowed him to do his research without worrying about whether he would have bread and cheese . |
| 12 | Not only has Mellor lost the cherished Cabinet post that thrust him to the forefront of British politics , but he has also waved goodbye to the Heritage Secretary 's salary of £63,047 . |
| 13 | Tabitha separated herself from Marco with a convulsive heave that spreadeagled him against the porthole . |
| 14 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 15 | She wanted to say no , to go on treating him and everything that surrounded him with the same nonchalant air she 'd managed thus far . |
| 16 | In addition , despite a disarmingly pleasant manner , Reagan was widely considered to harbour views that placed him outside the mainstream of American politics ; there was a possibility that he might tamper with social security or lead his country into war . |
| 17 | As he tried to grab me , I feinted , slipped back to make him follow me , knowing he would think I was afraid , and then I let him have a classic straight left that hit him on the point of the jaw . |
| 18 | Philip Tufnell is welcomed back to Test cricket after his appendix operation by a Waqar Younis yorker that hit him on the foot |
| 19 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |
| 20 | Most of the people in Bonanza 's outfit had been aware that Mahoney was up to some kind of private business that kept him in the bucks more than whatever he earned from Bonanza . |
| 21 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 22 | about the other on be the pony , that took him to the wrong house . |
| 23 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 24 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |
| 25 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 26 | Lawrence has demanded a battling performance after a Watford defeat that reminded him of the FA Cup knockout by Portsmouth . |
| 27 | ‘ I understand from the Echo man that it was your paper in Nature that put him onto the track , ’ Kegan said maliciously . |
| 28 | It was , however , his permanent design of the deceptively simple 1920 Whitehall Cenotaph ( originally erected in wood and plaster as a saluting point for the Victory March Past of Allied troops in July 1919 ) that put him in the eye of the general public and for the first time turned Lutyens into a household name . |
| 29 | But there could be no begrudging the 1990 innings at Hove that put him in the Somerset record-books . |
| 30 | Mr Reagan was showered by shards of glass , including at least one that struck him in the face , but was unhurt . |