Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |
| 2 | During that year he worked with all four Silbermann brothers , including Johann Gottfried and Johann Heinrich ( 1727–99 ) , the nephews of Gottfried Silbermann . |
| 3 | During that time he proved to be a wonderful companion . |
| 4 | During that time he worked with wool blending as Teasing Foreman and latterly as assistant to the Raw Materials ' Manager in the Warehouse office . |
| 5 | For that purpose he went to Edward Wynn . |
| 6 | At about this time he returned to Courthill to assist his father , and so he was able to use all the resources of the smithy to make the kind of machine that was in his mind . |
| 7 | On two occasions during this period he told at least four people that money had been found by her body . |
| 8 | During this period he remained in regular touch with his Russian controller , giving him details of all the work he handled . |
| 9 | During this time he participated in the negotiations in Geneva to end the war in Indochina . |
| 10 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 11 | For some time he hung like a bird watching it . |
| 12 | Hoping that , in the changed climate of opinion in England , he would soon be granted a pardon , Kinloch returned secretly to London , where for some time he remained under cover until early in 1823 he returned clandestinely to Scotland . |
| 13 | For this reason he stressed in his recommendations not only measures to improve prison conditions but also reforms of grievance and disciplinary procedures ( see Chapter 5 ) which might both improve the objective standard of justice within prisons and be seen as fairer by prisoners . |
| 14 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 15 | After much hesitation he had at last begun work on an autobiography which , sadly , remains unfinished . |
| 16 | Through assiduous exercise he came to be strong enough to ride and march with his troops . |
| 17 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 18 | Sien had taken to staring into the abyss with the kind of inherent fatality he dreaded in himself . |
| 19 | In September of that year he wrote to Pepys , Locke and other friends accusing them of being atheists or Catholics , and of trying to embroil him with women . |
| 20 | Most of that time he dived for red snapper along the edge of a break in the reef . |
| 21 | He said you 've got all these men , straight lines with the vegetables and that and er he 's got his , you know , rows and rows of different stuff he has in . |
| 22 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 23 | Frustrated by his lack of social acceptance he retreats into a world of fantasy and self-delusion … with tragic results . |
| 24 | Under the care of this gentleman he remained near a week ; when , not finding that relief he hoped for , Dr Scott was requested to assist Dr Crawford , but with no better success , for notwithstanding the united efforts of these eminent physicians , the fevers and faintings encreased [ sic ] till they ended in delirium and death on the 21st , being seventeen days after the first attack ’ . |
| 25 | In support of this submission he relied on the recent decision of the House of Lords in Reg. v. Inland Revenue Commissioners , Ex parte T. C. Coombs & Co. [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 283 , 302F where the House of Lords held , in the words of Lord Lowry who gave the leading judgment in which the other Lords of Appeal concurred , that |
| 26 | At the end of this month he travelled to Sweden on a tour organized by the British Council ; it lasted five weeks , and he gave a number of readings in Stockholm , Upsala , Lund and elsewhere . |
| 27 | The loss of this figure he valued at £5,000 , allowing for contingencies . |
| 28 | In the Critique of Pure Reason he called for a ‘ Copernican revolution ’ in our ideas about knowledge . |
| 29 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 30 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott could now concentrate on the preparations for the Normandy landings , although he was still not fully fit after the months of hard training he did with his men . |