Example sentences of "that he [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He also said , rashly , that he felt stirred by the efforts of American radicals .
2 When Paul was encouraged at Corinth by the fellowship of Priscilla and Aquila we read that he became gripped by the Word ( 18:5 ) .
3 If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested .
4 In fact he was so huge that he became known as the Paunch of Misty Mountain , or simply as Grom the Fat .
5 At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him .
6 All 180 kids gathered right at his feet and he did a completely different show from any show that he 'd done in the sell-out places for five or six thousand .
7 By this time , Lewis had shown Morse the yellow A4 sheet ; and Morse had seemed so delighted with it that he 'd turned on the car 's internal light in transit .
8 That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’
9 I smiled , nodding my head , not unhappy that he 'd jumped to the wrong conclusions , but surprised that he did n't know the secret of paying by instalments .
10 Carson pulled out his pad and tried to read the shaky notes that he 'd made on the Underground .
11 Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's .
12 He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent .
13 " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming .
14 In the bay-windowed room Forester locked the door behind him and closed all the curtains before turning to the rod case that he 'd laid on the bed .
15 The Tibetan was talking in loud self-congratulatory tones about the religious statues and paintings that he 'd smuggled across the border and sold in India ; how time and again he 'd outwitted the border police , with silver , musk and contraband of every sort .
16 He took out the keys that he 'd brought from the office back home , and opened the door .
17 It turned out that he 'd inched along the parapet — a thin one about six inches wide — and had a good peek at us through the windows .
18 He bent down and picked up a carrier that he 'd lain on the floor .
19 Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days .
20 Suddenly he remembered the owl lamp that he 'd knocked in the night .
21 He was n't about to tell the Yank that he 'd also been duped , that he 'd sat on the information for nearly twenty-four hours .
22 She was aware that he 'd rocked with the insult , but was too furious and shaken to care .
23 I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ .
24 For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s .
25 He wore the same black clothes — baggy corduroys , heavy sweater , working-man 's jacket — that he had worn through the Sixties and Seventies .
26 The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude .
27 The last they heard was that he had gone over the wall for two years .
28 After travelling to the little mining village and speaking to Brown 's mother , ‘ I then set out to find him , having been told that he had gone to the pit with a barrow to fetch some coal .
29 Fran exchanged pleasantries with her , curbing her impatience before finally asking if she knew where Luke had gone , and went weak with relief when the other woman informed her that he had gone to the old college .
30 Mr Brownlow explained that he had run after the boy only because he saw him running away .
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