Example sentences of "he [vb past] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 32 | He slung them on the banister in a casual manner . |
| 33 | His hands were getting messy ; he wiped them on the creature 's cloak . |
| 34 | He found them in a mess of vomit . |
| 35 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 36 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 37 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 38 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 39 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 40 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 41 | He helped them into the railway coach , stood the dark lantern on the floor , checked the blinds and curtains with the torch , slammed the carriage door and flooded the whole place with good old-fashioned electric light . |
| 42 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 43 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 44 | Well he , he , he given them a free cup of coffee it 'll be alright , but he did n't , he gave , the machine took ten P pieces so he provided them with the ten P pieces to put in and then when it was full up he 'd empty it out and give them all ten P pieces back |
| 45 | With a gesture he drew them to the side of the corridor . |
| 46 | He approached them with an offer to train them . |
| 47 | He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " . |
| 48 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 49 | He must have felt it and he must have suffered afterwards from it I would imagine , but he had , he had those qualifications , he had those abilities and he used them for a . |
| 50 | If they did n't bring back the amount of money he 'd told them to , he beat them with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 51 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 52 | I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin . |
| 53 | Hearing on the grapevine that Island Records ' in-house Fallout Shelter studios were in need of a trainee engineer , he pestered them for an interview that afternoon and began work the next day . |
| 54 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 55 | He told them of the product launches during the year , Cruzcampo 's success at the Expo event in Spain , and the development of the new staff restaurant to replace the old canteen . |
| 56 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 57 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 58 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 59 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 60 | Under interrogation he told them about the ball of wax and , when he finally shat it out , they cut it open and found a letter . |