Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had known this district all his life , had come back to it as a young police detective for his first major case , and its vitality and capacity for change amazed him . |
| 2 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 3 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 4 | That small part of the Doctor 's character that allowed for scepticism reminded him of all the times such naivety had landed him in trouble before . |
| 5 | A crash during practice shook him up and badly damaged his car . |
| 6 | JOHN MAJOR today headed for a tough showdown with his predecessor Baroness Thatcher after MPs gave him the go-ahead to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 7 | The day after doctors gave him their cautious opinion Roy gave away prizes for yet another cancer research fund-raising effort . |
| 8 | Almost immediately Philip , realising what an opportunity such an appeal for help gave him , declared that he would make no lasting settlement with England unless the Scots were included in it . |
| 9 | Modigliani 's penetrating artistic judgement and his talent for graphology made him ‘ a sort of magician ’ . |
| 10 | He was cursing still as Cornelius bandaged him up . |
| 11 | He designed for others ( costumes for Diaghilev and embroidery for Schiaparelli ) , but he also ‘ designed ’ himself ; his unquenchable desire for fame and his talent for self-publicity made him the most photographed man in Paris . |
| 12 | Only when he had asked her about Katherine had he realized that something was seriously amiss . |
| 13 | A sudden crash of cymbals pulled him back to the present . |
| 14 | His arrest was ordered by the Algiers judiciary after the Ministry of Defence accused him of inciting the army to mutiny . |
| 15 | The shocks of ministry changed him . |
| 16 | Howe 's reputation as an animal painter was made when Sir John Sinclair of the Board of Agriculture commissioned him to draw details of various breeds of cattle , and he went on to paint hundreds more pictures , mostly of horses . |
| 17 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |
| 18 | Her lack of reserve delighted him and he could not help but be flattered by her attention . |
| 19 | Nice to see you … to see you nice … there was a rousing welcome at the Manor for Denis Smith … and his assistant Malcolm Crosby … everyone of course wished him well … everyone was pleased to see him except Bristol City … |
| 20 | This of course impressed him . |
| 21 | Gardening and agricultural production , unlike trading , were safe from government intervention , and his mixture of activities gave him some security should his job or his shop come under threat . |
| 22 | What sort of teaching did he give then ? |
| 23 | Mozart 's fine understanding of key-schemes enabled him to build-up large-scale musical structures that were closely linked to the fast-moving action . |
| 24 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 25 | It was held that the settlor had retained an interest in the accumulated income because the payments of income gave him the benefit of being able to withdraw his capital deposited at the bank . |
| 26 | The adoption of the italic script by many schools and a wider interest in the reform of handwriting encouraged him to initiate the founding of the Society for Italic Handwriting in 1952 , with a director of education , Joseph Compton , as chairman ; it soon had more than 500 members . |
| 27 | Born 53 years ago in Eisenach , now East Germany , the son of a haberdasher who fought in the war and died shortly after it , his family 's lack of money meant he had to win scholarships to schools and university . |
| 28 | There was a receipt showing that after lack of money forced him to give up the flat , in 1989 , he bought a luxury caravan . |
| 29 | Stewart Purvis , editor in chief of ITN said he was delighted with the new look . |
| 30 | His appointment to the keepership of Bewcastle brought him into conflict with William , third Lord Dacre , of Gilsland . |