Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time . |
| 2 | He screamed and almost lost his footing as he made for the stairs . |
| 3 | Then he was striding away from her , his boots echoing on the wooden boards as he made for the stairs . |
| 4 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 5 | From 1865 to 1871 he lived on the estates he had inherited in Scotland , and then spent his last years at Cambridge . |
| 6 | Socially , he was at the top of the ladder and he lived to the limits of his wealth . |
| 7 | Following the example of George Müller [ q.v. ] , and his own highly original survival training in Hull , he lived by the principles of faith and prayer on which he later built his mission : never appealing for funds except to God , and administering all gifts with scrupulous stewardship . |
| 8 | He lived in the depths alongside the needy , the sick and the poor . |
| 9 | Furthermore a trader will be able to use , as a complete defence , evidence that in the relevant respect , he complied with the requirements of safety regulations or any approved standard of safety . |
| 10 | ‘ I can see it … ’ he whispered to the others . |
| 11 | There was a long pause while she cleared the bed of her things , and she was aware of his eyes on her every movement as he checked over the items she 'd packed for any signs of decadence . |
| 12 | ’ He checked off the targets as they flared . |
| 13 | He beamed at the others . |
| 14 | At about the same time he began buying copyrights : the first book to bear his imprint was an edition of Horace 's Lyrics , published in 1653 ; the first copyright he registered with the Stationers ' Company was a translation by Sir Kenelm Digby [ q.v. ] of Albert the Great 's Treatise Adhering to God , entered 19 September 1653 . |
| 15 | It was not long before he fainted from the drugs . |
| 16 | When Edward I , Langshanks , waged his wars against Wales and Scotland , his armies were paid for by loans from Luccan bankers and when he reneged on the loans , the bankers went bust and Florence became the international financier of the day . |
| 17 | When Jack London described the ‘ move-on ’ confrontations that he experienced with the police in both the Metropolitan capital and in Chicago , he was documenting the normal encounter between the residents of the streets and the patrolling officer . |
| 18 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 19 | Isay followed him unquestioningly as always when he passed through the gates of the Rorim proper to the open space beyond . |
| 20 | He passed on the thanks , and the remarks about the possibility of keeping in touch in the event of war . |
| 21 | As he tramped behind the horses , he spoke to them constantly , in a caressing tone . |
| 22 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 23 | He agreed with The Times that imprisonment at the discretion of the creditor was a really powerful engine for extracting from the debtor any property he had concealed or done away with . |
| 24 | So she beckoned to Baptiste and he crept up the stairs after her , his shoes in his hand . |
| 25 | But inspiration came in the form of a fellow photographer he met at the printers , who suggested a different way of looking at the images . |
| 26 | Here , while he waited to embark the Susannah Anne bound for Hobart , he met with the offices from HMS Beagle , then on its third surveying voyage around the world under Commander John C. Wickham . |
| 27 | He grazed through the streets as if he were some sort of god , head and shoulders above everyone . |
| 28 | THE spontaneous and knowledgeable applause which greeted Charlie Swan when he rode into the winners enclosure at Navan in December 1992 said it all . |
| 29 | Ken played a role very similar to his Sergeant part , the snooty intellectual thrust into a society not of his choosing — this time the ward he shared with the likes of Kenneth Connor and Leslie Phillips . |
| 30 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |