Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ strange and anomalous nature ’ of the ‘ few extraordinary species ’ he had before him pickled in spirits or dried as skins confounded the imagination even of an ornithologist as instinctive as Gould . |
| 2 | Things which had bewildered him were clear as crystal , problems which had daunted and defied him gave like locks opening to the right key . |
| 3 | Above : A Jaffna schoolboy shows a drawing he made of helicopters strafing his home town . |
| 4 | That he had on previous occasions overcome his antipathy to women is suggested by remarks he made to others . |
| 5 | He did this without ever losing sight of the contrasts he made between steps of each sequence because these were controlled by the particular rhythm , tempo and quality of the music . |
| 6 | According to family tradition he lived among Arabs and came to England in early life as a refugee from religious persecution . |
| 7 | His wife died in 1902 and for the twenty years of his retirement he lived in hotels . |
| 8 | He exhorts us to remember the virtue of Abraham who left the stability of Ur of the Chaldees and obeyed God and went and ‘ made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country ; he lived in tents . ’ |
| 9 | Before Bill had his own house he lived in lodgings and helped his landlady with her garden . |
| 10 | He told Timothy he lived in fantasies . |
| 11 | He commissioned from Beneš of Weitmil the Cronica Ecclesiae Pragensis , and the History of Bohemia from the Italian Giovanni di Marignola . |
| 12 | Time and again he laid on centres from which Ted Smith and then John Conner , our regular centre-forwards , were able to score . |
| 13 | ‘ I was n't sure that I 'd find you in , ’ he drawled for openers — and suddenly Fabia did n't like his tone . |
| 14 | If he cared about orphans he could find plenty of them over here . |
| 15 | Elinor felt privileged to be one of his girlfriends for she was aware how little he cared for women and how he would sometimes wince when sitting next to one . |
| 16 | They may be planned deliberately to give the undergraduate a good general education , for example by sampling or balancing a number of types of knowledge , or they may he planned in terms of an applied , problem focus such as environmental control , or a broad theme such as modern urban society , or in terms of some concept of individual development . |
| 17 | He agreed with warnings from Sir Montague Levine , the coroner , that the amount of ecstasy needed to induce an hallucinogenic state was very close to the fatal dose . |
| 18 | Tony Page , Assistant Manager , Administration , Corporate Banking , Edinburgh devised a crossword , copies of which he sold to friends and colleagues for £1 each . |
| 19 | Liverpool magistrates heard that the illegal videos he sold to dealers all over Britain included scenes of cannibalism and disembowel ment . |
| 20 | He made use of the new Dover–Calais cable to transmit information , which he sold to clients , between the London and Paris stock exchanges . |
| 21 | When William arrived in England he met with pockets of resistance in various parts of the country from Tory groups . |
| 22 | Returning from a visit to Uganda , where he met with patients in the villages and with other agencies , Maurice Adams said , ‘ It is a beautiful country which is being devastated by a disease which can be stopped . ’ |
| 23 | At St Inglevert — do you remember , Lancaster ? he was the match of any he met in arms , if not the master , and so were you , and together you two held any two that France could set up against you , and Jean de Boucicaut himself acknowledged it . |
| 24 | He looked tired , but his face was clean and he smelled of pencils . |
| 25 | He smelled of cigars and , fleetingly , of herbs . |
| 26 | And no one , he argued in terms that could have come straight from John Stuart Mill , could have a monopoly of the truth , either in asking questions or answering them ; it could be determined only through the interplay of argument . |
| 27 | Mr Segni says he resorted to referendums after more than ten years of fruitless debate within the party on institutional reform . |
| 28 | Hampshire were only 66 ahead when he took earnest guard , but he shared in stands of 170 with Brown , and 70 with Stuart Boyce , and remained undefeated on the Friday morning with 110 . |
| 29 | He fought for things we 'd disagree with , like wives staying at home . |
| 30 | His grandfather , who taught him songs and ballads and regaled him with tales of his own ‘ merry ’ youth when he fought with gamekeepers , clearly saw the young poacher as a chip off the old block . |