Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 2 | The virtual destruction of the Liberal Party almost completed the political pattern which he had hoped for since the previous autumn . |
| 3 | Sometimes he wanted to practise , and might well require an hour or so on the putting green , or sometimes he fancied a pint or two of some obscure real ale that he had heard of in the vicinity . |
| 4 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 5 | The words drew on his memory of a secret meeting he had gone to at the end of his first year in Glasgow . |
| 6 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 7 | Huy found that , during much of what he had to listen to over the next few minutes , his only defence against the temptation to break the young man over his knee was to invoke the Horus within him . |
| 8 | One of his old associates he had chatted to in the bar a couple of nights previously , had mentioned how much he enjoyed his regular visits to the Turkish baths in Gloucester . |
| 9 | But he felt as well something far greater — the sudden joy of life that he had pleaded for as the old eagle 's right , and in pleading for it then had begun at last to claim it as his own . |
| 10 | By the beginning of 1946 the national consensus that he had presided over at the liberation was visibly disintegrating . |
| 11 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 12 | He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before . |
| 13 | Such belligerent consolation made me think more , not less , about that strange woman he had coupled with on the Nile . |
| 14 | The demanding business of running for the presidency had shown Carter to be an exceptionally energetic , ambitious and intelligent politician and it was to be expected that he would want to be an activist in the White House — a president who left his mark and fulfilled the commitments he had entered into during the campaign . |
| 15 | It was the same job he had started with at the Zoo so many years before . |
| 16 | It was Ramses , the civil servant from the Ministry of Finance whom he had talked to at the Consul-General 's reception . |
| 17 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 18 | He did it again when , leaving her question hanging , he stepped closer , studied her scraped-back hairstyle , then , without so much as a by-your-leave , whipped her glasses from her nose — the better , it seemed , to check that her green eyes were the same green he had looked into during the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 19 | That 's what he wanted to do to from the start , cut the wages down and make more slate , that 's what he had in mind . |
| 20 | The mind was a delicate mechanism that he disliked interfering with at the best of times . |