Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So successful was the new pattern that when Yusuf made a third entry into Spain in 1090 , he met with absolutely no support from the Caliphs ; they either ignored him or actually placed obstacles in his path . |
| 2 | He fought in both the Boer and First World Wars . |
| 3 | Then Nomadic Way brought the stamina which enabled him to win the Cesarewitch two years ago into play and finishing well up that final testing hill , he failed by only a head to catch Cruising Altitude . |
| 4 | Goosebumps coarsened his sleek skin , and he tried to still a trembling in his limbs . |
| 5 | In verses 5 and 6 Peter makes direct reference to the flood of judgment which came upon the earth in the days of Noah and at the end of the preceding verse 4 he writes of how the scoffers will say that ‘ all things continue as they were from the beginning of the CREATION . ’ |
| 6 | But as regards his goods and chattels , which include his leaseholds , it is early admitted that he has at least a limited power to dispose by will — limited because his wife and children may have rights which he can not override . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has on how the nuclear weapons in Ukraine are going to be controlled by the Soviet Union following the independence vote . |
| 8 | Their debts are now more than £6.5m and chairman Sir John Hall says he needs at least a week to draw up another rescue package before he and his fellow directors will be in a position to open talks with Kevin Keegan about the vacant manager 's position . |
| 9 | Make sure that , sure they 're good quality photographs , normally black and white , sharp , appropriate and so forth , and make sure that you 've got sufficient details associated with it , often a good way of doing it is by having a , something typed on a slip of paper which is just very slightly stuck to the , to the back so the editor can actually see what the thing is and can take it off if he needs to when the picture is actually being reproduced . |
| 10 | He fled with just an ornament . |
| 11 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 12 | Borrowing or buying on credit tends to he seen in quite a different light from other consumer transactions . |
| 13 | He murdered at least a dozen young men before burying their bodies in and around his home . |
| 14 | When he came to where the men were standing , identified by a tuft of wool in their hat-band or buttonhole , George hesitated . |
| 15 | Perhaps even , thought Cadfael , prompted a step further , he came without even the intent to kill , since he did not come prepared . |
| 16 | He was born in seventeen sixty , in the middle of France , really , erm , and he came from quite a large family . |
| 17 | He gestured to where the flag of the other Germany hung over the old Tiergarten . |
| 18 | Details of practical compost-making with help of worms are given in J. Temple 's booklet Worm Compost , and J. Minnich 's comprehensive treatise The Earthworm Book , in which he deals with almost every aspect of breeding and marketing earthworms . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's no need to look so desperate , ’ he replied with just a hint of sympathy . |
| 20 | She said he had left the house in the forenoon of 24 October and been covered in blood when he returned at 3am the next day . |
| 21 | A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League . |
| 22 | He escaped with just a broken wrist and is recovering in Wolverhampton Manor Hospital . |
| 23 | He served in both the Cabinet and the CCP politburo and was strongly tipped to become Premier following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 . |
| 24 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |
| 25 | Then he began to refold the paper . |
| 26 | As Seb stood beside Nahum in the chapel , awaiting Anna 's arrival , he glanced to where the six gipsies stood in the front pew of the chapel , brightly dressed , but decidedly ill at ease . |
| 27 | Slowly and methodically , he worked for about an hour on his correspondence , which included a letter from one of their major customers . |
| 28 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 29 | He worked in both the English and Welsh parts of the county ; in 1755 he opened , at Woodstock , the first chapel built especially for a Welsh Methodist society . |
| 30 | He talked to over a thousand sheikhs in Mesopotamia and — ’ |