Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made Daguerreotypes in Regent Street and Trafalgar Square . |
| 2 | He succeeded Pym in control of the ordnance , and was thanked by the House for deciphering intercepted letters . |
| 3 | After the autumn election , however , he succeeded Snowden as Chancellor , and remained at the Treasury , manifestly the second man in the Conservative Party , for longer than anyone since Lloyd George . |
| 4 | In real life he flies Andovers at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire , but for now he 's pawing over charts of a different kind , plotting his route to the eastern seaboard of the United States . |
| 5 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 6 | When in 1937 Mussolini , like Hitler , intervened in support of Franco in the Spanish Civil War , and again when he annexed Libya in October 1938 , the ordinary inhabitants of Fontanellato showed an almost total lack of interest ; principally , again , because none of them were involved . |
| 7 | The way was open for the invasion of Italy , a strategy which Churchill had advocated when he met Roosevelt at Casablanca in January 1943 . |
| 8 | THE NEXT TIME Heathcliff came to Thrushcross Grange , he met Isabella by chance in front of the house . |
| 9 | In February 1173 he met Humbert at Montferrat in the Auvergne to finalize the details of the betrothal . |
| 10 | So it was under his adopted name , as Henry Morton Stanley , that he met Livingstone in Africa . |
| 11 | He claimed in court that he met Hashemi in jail . |
| 12 | According to my contact at the Yard , the theory is that he met Puddephat by chance , and saw his opportunity . |
| 13 | Dave 's closest brush with a total gratification zone came when he met Bono on U2 's recent American tour . |
| 14 | He then went to Rome , Paris , Washington ( where he met Bush on Oct. 19 ) and London , indicating that there were new signs of Iraqi flexibility . |
| 15 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 16 | En route for Baghdad he met Mitterrand in Paris on Jan. 11 , EC foreign ministers and also Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar ( who had been seeking to mediate on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement ) in Geneva later that day , and King Hussein of Jordan in Amman that evening . |
| 17 | Last December , the Heron International chairman sat down with Price Waterhouse accountant Alan Wheatley , whose stature was confirmed last Thursday when he became chairman-elect of venture capital giant 3i . |
| 18 | He became Robert of Jerusalem to his contemporaries ; his deeds were recorded in the Song of Antioch ; his pious bravery totally expunged the memory of Robert the Frisian 's usurpation ; and after his death his son Baldwin VII harped on his father 's achievement to justify his substantial use of coercion against the enemies of the church . |
| 19 | Finally he made up his mind about something : he asked Changez about Jamila and how she was . |
| 20 | Minton , with teasing flattery , referred to his new friend , six years his junior , as his ‘ property consultant ’ , for he asked Goff for advice when he began thinking and talking about moving . |
| 21 | ‘ Whither are we bound , my lord ? ’ he asked Richard of Gloucester . |
| 22 | The England No 2 first made moves when he led Southampton to FA Cup victory over Manchester United in 1976 . |
| 23 | MAN FOR THE JOB GARRY Schofield played the game of his life when he led Britain to victory in the second Ashes Test in Melbourne . |
| 24 | IAN WRIGHT proved a point to manager George Graham at Highbury last night as he led Arsenal to victory in their delayed third round replay against First Division Derby . |
| 25 | I would class him as one of the promising youngsters ( he is only about 21 and on the verge of the Norway team ) Remember Standli is Wilko 's ‘ most exciting ’ signing since he got Hirst for Sheff Wed . |
| 26 | But how could he explain Crandon to Benedicta ? |
| 27 | He found Dougal in Celia 's little sitting room ; he was trying to persuade a shelf to lie flat on its brackets . |
| 28 | Taking a clearance from Nilsson , he found Palmer with space on the right wing and Williams tucked away Palmer 's centre with brisk efficiency . |
| 29 | He joins Yuill from Twyfords where he was marketing manager for four years . |
| 30 | He devoted Sunday to sightseeing , including a ride on Tokyo 's subway , a trip to Asakusa Temple and a tea ceremony at Takashimaya Department Store , which is to open a branch on New York 's 5th Avenue this spring . |