Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It actually asks you for the mark he obtained for his final tests does n't it ? |
| 2 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman not only for the sympathy he expressed to the families of those killed and injured , but for his support for the courageous efforts of the security forces . |
| 3 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 4 | When , six months later , the English Opera Group was looking for a boy soprano to play the Little Sweep in a new production of Let's Make an Opera — in which the young Michael Ingram had previously treated a Brixton audience to on-stage nudity — Benjamin Britten remembered Michael , not so much for his singing , but for the havoc he caused at the earlier auditions . |
| 5 | Widely admired for the enthusiasm he brought to the job , his greatest triumph as a coach came with Lynn Davies ' Olympic gold in the long jump at Tokyo in 1964 . |
| 6 | He did discover a serious oil leak in its engine late last year and immediately changed it for the spare he keeps in what looks like a glass case in his garage . |
| 7 | He stopped work and sued for the money he alleged to be owing . |
| 8 | the diarist ; for the sermon he heard on respect for the priestly office , see The Diary of Samuel Pepys , entry for 9 Aug. 1663 . |
| 9 | For the Survey he mapped in Fife and the Lothians , in the Southern Uplands , and in the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire coalfields , while from 1875 until 1882 his station was at Perth . |
| 10 | I 've always admired Ben Hogan for the way he worked at the game and the determination he showed to succeed . |
| 11 | Berger 's hand went inside his jacket , reaching for the Mauser he carried in a shoulder holster there . |
| 12 | But nothing could have prepared Gould for the transformation he witnessed on the journey back to Yarrundi from Maitland . |
| 13 | Firstly , the plaintiff was compensated for the loss he suffered as a result of the injury , not for the injury itself . |
| 14 | He originally planned to earn enough cash selling computers to pay for the time he spent on the race track . |
| 15 | Fortunately for the reader he continues in the same way — anecdotal , down-to-earth and humorous stories which reflect his love of the mountains . |
| 16 | When asked why he chose ‘ Horizon ’ as the name for the ensemble he formed in 1980 , Bobby Watson answered : ‘ Because I define the word as ‘ a vision that 's both moving forward and forward looking ’ — that 's what my concept of the band is ’ . |
| 17 | They had walked the perimeter his men had already marked out in preparation for the stockade he planned around the new settlement ; the deputies had taken this in , uttering cries among themselves at the tools his men handled . |
| 18 | Numerous purges in the regions were designed to root out less than committed fascists , which helps to account for the high turnover of membership in the 1930s ; A.K. Chesterton in particular was notorious for the war he waged against literal social fascists , being responsible for expelling over 300 members in Stoke in 1935 who used the local headquarters as a drinking club . |
| 19 | He came back to Hollywood glowing , and totally unprepared for the reaction he received from Universal . |
| 20 | In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that ‘ perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture . ’ |
| 21 | thank God for the job he provided at Overbridge with mentally-handicapped deaf-blind adults . |
| 22 | He might be the key to her freedom , but she still hated him for the confusion he aroused in her . |
| 23 | ‘ Some of you thought I could n't do it , ’ chuckled Pipe , who then gave credit to Dickinson for the role he played in Granville Again 's timely revival . |
| 24 | And he did n't forget the man he had beaten , and to whom he acknowledged America owed a debt : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of public service , for the effort he made from the time he was a young soldier in the second world war , to helping to bring about an end to the Cold War , to our victory in the Gulf War , to the grace with which he conceded the results of this election tonight in the finest American tradition . ’ |
| 25 | This accounts for the attention he gave to the reserves , or ‘ spare men ’ as he liked to call them . |
| 26 | He gets £680 a week for the flat he shares with his wife in London 's Barbican , which boasts breathtaking views of the City . |
| 27 | She did not understand that he was mocking her , or that he would take such a revenge on her for the pleasure he found in her . |
| 28 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
| 29 | This effort on Nizan 's part to promote orthodox sectarian communist party ideology within a bourgeois context found no greater expression than during the year he spent in Bourg-en-Bresse , when he was at one and the same time philosophy teacher at the Lycee Lalande and communist party candidate at the general election of 1932 . |
| 30 | During the war he served with the R.A.F. and before joining Douglas Reyburn he was involved with retail grocery business . |