Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he made for the Jackley road from which nearly all the traffic had now disappeared . |
| 2 | He remembered now ; he always felt the same by this stage of every visit he made to the Dysons ' house in the daytime , while the children were about . |
| 3 | He was one of the earliest arrivals at Augusta , playing his first practice round on Saturday , which was a direct contradiction of a statement he made to the Augusta Chronical when he said he tried to treat the Masters like ‘ any other tournament ’ . |
| 4 | He took with him a recording of the female whales at play which he made off the Azores as part of his post-graduate efforts to analyse sperm whale sounds . |
| 5 | The American conductor John Canarina also pointed out that in a performance he attended at Tanglewood in 1965 and in a recording he made with the Chicago Symphony , Munch made two cuts between figs. 110 and 128 ( in the Durand score ) . |
| 6 | He failed by just 12 runs to equal Sunil Gavaskar 's individual India Test record the 236 not out he made against the West Indies at Madras in 1983-84 . |
| 7 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 8 | He lived on the Somerset Levels , and he was called Girard Fossarius , Gerard of the Drain . |
| 9 | Franz Xaver , only six months old when his father died , was later sent to study music in Prague , where he lived with the Dušeks . |
| 10 | He had done the same for old and sick people when he lived in the Borinage , so it was nothing new . |
| 11 | He lived in the USA from this period . |
| 12 | had basically told him he lived in the Stansted catchment area and we did n't need to do a deal with him , and that 's what irritated him |
| 13 | He lived in The Hague , the centre of German-occupied Holland , between the ages of two and seven . |
| 14 | Police said he lived in the Leith Walk area of Edinburgh . |
| 15 | I should like to think that the Colonel 's sister-in-law ( the daughter of a dean ) to whom he gave dinner at the Café Royal , the Aunt whom he entertained at the Walsingham , and the Uncle whom he nicknamed the Nabob , were really his relations and not figments of his humorous imagination . |
| 16 | Thus the star of the show is the mock-up of a banquet complete with the extraordinary salt cellars he commissioned from the Regency silversmith Paul Storr — a crab and winkle here , a triton or braying donkey there , all of gold . |
| 17 | Habit shouldered curiosity out of the way for a moment when he got back to the house , and he checked around the Mercedes for damage . |
| 18 | He registered with the DSS and filled in all the forms . |
| 19 | Back in the forest the Doctor discovers the Daleks have taken the piece he sabotaged from the TARDIS . |
| 20 | He himself did not much value the small detached territories — Cleves , Mark , Ravensberg — which he ruled in the Rhineland . |
| 21 | The monument was raised by the power of the state as a piece of political theatre extravagant enough to be seen from miles and years away , as it was by my father when he passed on the Bapaume Road in the summer of 1944 . |
| 22 | Prolific and reliable , the 170 maps he produced for the London Magazine alone ( 1747–83 ) would prove sufficient companion for the entire history of his time . |
| 23 | In 1878 he tramped through the Cevennes with a donkey named Modestine and discovered the delights of Travels with a Donkey . |
| 24 | For the next twelve years he cruised in the North Sea and Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa . |
| 25 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 26 | These details make it clear that Beveridge regarded young workers as constituting a separate source of labour supply which required specialized provision and that he agreed with the ASEA and the ‘ boy labour ’ reformers in wishing to see the transition from school to work treated as an educational matter ( though not necessarily one controlled by the Board of Education ) . |
| 27 | Not at all — the price was too good — MacDonald 's factor was far too busy agreeing a price for the young folk that he sold to the Carolina merchants . |
| 28 | On the first day he announced his new sponsorship deal with Everest — a return to the firm who supported him in the 70's when he rode for the Edgar yard . |
| 29 | He rode on the Sambre 's northern bank , drawn towards the town by the sound of musketry which had been loud an hour before , but which now had faded into silence . |
| 30 | After Angola he went to Nicaragua where he fought with the Sandanistas until the downfall of Somoza in I980 . |