Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , 'e spoke for about an 'our and at the end of it 'e asked for people to come forward and testify that they were saved . |
| 2 | He will continue to study for his external law degree at the University of London , but does not intend to train as a barrister — an idea that he toyed with for a while . |
| 3 | As a result of this , the Earl of Lauderdale , a friend and admirer of Baxter 's , with the King 's permission , offered him any position he cared for in Scotland , either a church , a bishopric or a university position . |
| 4 | He produced from under his jacket a small paperback book which he waved in the air , furiously . |
| 5 | Girouard mentions that the Duke of Portland sacked any housemaid he met with in the corridors , and that a certain Lord M in Wiltshire never spoke to a servant unless to give an order . |
| 6 | But he got in in this , you know they moved moved w w you know would |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm infuriated with myself , ’ he gritted from behind clenched teeth , his scowl deepening . |
| 8 | Er , but there again I think it was because the person doing this , was so keen to see the right result , that he read into into |
| 9 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |
| 10 | Acknowledging the problems inherent in the learned safety hypothesis , Kalat ( 1977 ) suggested a revision which he referred to as ‘ learned non-correlation ’ . |
| 11 | Innumerable short encounters were jotted down in his diaries , which he referred to as ‘ memorandum books ’ , as well as in the Guide Book . |
| 12 | But he did believe the working class — which he referred to as if it were a single-willed person — would do somewhat unlikely things . |
| 13 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 14 | For example , in September 1919 , in its account of a meeting of the Board of Guardians , the Bedfordshire Times reported that a member had complained of what he referred to as ‘ an appalling increase of rates ’ . |
| 15 | His plea was well received by his listeners who , if they did not quite accept his characterisation of the present moment as a ‘ cultural war ’ between the advocates of free expression and individuals he referred to as ‘ know-nothings ’ , nonetheless were happy , even relieved , to have something resembling moral high ground from which to defend themselves in the controversy and even take the battle back to the ‘ enemy ’ . |
| 16 | Marx predicted that this group , which he referred to as the petty ( or petit ) bourgeoisie , would be progressively squeezed into the proletariat . |
| 17 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 18 | Nevertheless , he viewed Coenwulf as a tyrant , who had compounded his deficiencies by putting away his wife and taking another ( as Eardwulf had done in Northumbria ) , and urged the Mercian patrician to advise the Mercian people to observe what he referred to as the good and chaste customs of Offa . |
| 19 | ‘ Peterborough ’ , the Daily Telegraph 's columnist , was probably not alone in ridiculing the 1942 Beveridge Report 's idea of marriage as a partnership , which he referred to as ‘ Cupid 's team ’ . |
| 20 | Geoff ambled out in quest of what he referred to as ‘ the bog ’ . |
| 21 | The person he referred to as Matt is his uncle . |
| 22 | These included his controversial and televised snub to his Dublin counterpart , Gay Mitchell , whom he referred to as a ‘ foreigner ’ and failed to wear his chain of office during their brief City Hall meeting . |
| 23 | But he was evidently even less happy than Dottie about my going back to what he referred to with thinly veiled distaste as " that place " . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , he decided to side with Detroit on the day , so that he might be as comfortably partisan as usual , but he did so among a group of Pittsburgh supporters , whom he referred to throughout the same as Pitts-buggers , which did nothing to improve inter-City relations . |
| 25 | Three generations later , the third John Pollexton inherited Mothecombe in 1700 and proceeded to build what he referred to in his will as ‘ the new house by me erected ’ . |
| 26 | Lear was a lonely , awkward boy , frightened by depression , the deaths of four of his sisters , and frequent attacks epilepsy , which he referred to in his ignorance as ‘ The Morbids ’ and ‘ The Terrible Demon ’ . |
| 27 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that David was expelled in the third form for dissing the gym teacher who confiscated his Uzi and broke his crack-peddling ring , he still feels enough loyalty to the old alma mater not to drag its name through the mud by engaging the lads he fagged for in a ‘ naughty-word ’ style debate . |
| 29 | In his capacity as a recording artist , McLaren visited the offices of his new holding company , and was ushered in to meet the chairman of the board as he rose from behind his desk . |
| 30 | She picked up her handbag , and he rose from behind his desk to take a relieved and ceremonious farewell . |