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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He fled with just an ornament . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Borrowing or buying on credit tends to he seen in quite a different light from other consumer transactions . |
| 10 | He murdered at least a dozen young men before burying their bodies in and around his home . |
| 11 | Perhaps even , thought Cadfael , prompted a step further , he came without even the intent to kill , since he did not come prepared . |
| 12 | He was born in seventeen sixty , in the middle of France , really , erm , and he came from quite a large family . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's no need to look so desperate , ’ he replied with just a hint of sympathy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League . |
| 17 | He escaped with just a broken wrist and is recovering in Wolverhampton Manor Hospital . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then he began to refold the paper . |
| 21 | Slowly and methodically , he worked for about an hour on his correspondence , which included a letter from one of their major customers . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He talked to over a thousand sheikhs in Mesopotamia and — ’ |
| 25 | ( Of Pontius Pilate : ‘ The steps he took to still a particular local clamour were more or less what the service required , and he washed his hands with a civilised regret . ’ ) |
| 26 | Looking over his shoulder he saw at once the brass bedstead , and the sewing-machine table on top of which Stanley had said he would find the boxes of glass balls . |
| 27 | But Mr Hughes is a keen pupil ; he has discovered Doctor Dee and Hermes Trismegistes from Frances Yates , and while he follows her he treads at least a wavy line , he does not loop the loop . |
| 28 | His blue eyes flayed her , as he demanded harshly , ‘ Do you deny that he died with barely a penny to his name ? ’ |
| 29 | He was so thin he looked like even the birds would n't want to peck at him . |
| 30 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |