Example sentences of "he [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can he useful to recap on the action you want taken after putting on pressure : ‘ If I call talk about it today , then I 'll be able to get on with the project — if I ca n't , the project is going to have to he delayed . |
| 2 | Is he able to elaborate on the answer that he gave to the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ? |
| 3 | In February 1340 Edward himself came back to secure what his commissaries had failed to get , but only in May was he able to return to the continent assured of a grant . |
| 4 | It took several minutes for Joseph to recover his composure and only then was he able to see by the light of the fires that the rear of the communal hut was divided up into tiny stall-like compartments for the pholy 's wives and daughters . |
| 5 | Nor was he able to believe in the religion of his community . |
| 6 | When he first refers to the approach made to Gundovald in Constantinople he does not reveal the identity of the man involved . |
| 7 | He elaborated the point he first made in the February that Gothic architecture expressed a spirit ‘ opposed to liberty and the true interests and prosperity of a Protestant country ’ . |
| 8 | His Puritan inclinations found favour with the electorate of Poole , which he first represented in the Addled Parliament of 1614 , and he sat , always for Dorset constituencies , in ten of its next twelve successors . |
| 9 | He first struck at the end of 1991 on the Milton Keynes Estate , then again a few months later . |
| 10 | He first struck at the end of 1991 on the Milton Keynes Estate , then again a few months later . |
| 11 | He first competed at the speedway in 1958 , qualified to compete a record 35 consecutive times and won the race on four occasions . |
| 12 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 13 | He is on nine , which is n't bad at all , and his goal ratio since he first came into the side has been excellent . |
| 14 | Did you see his face when he first came into the room ? |
| 15 | Born and educated in South Africa he first came to the UK as private secretary to the ambassador . |
| 16 | Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added . |
| 17 | Like many East Anglians who took to the sea he first served on the farm : |
| 18 | He chose a piece of smooth parchment and began to write down everything that had happened since he first went to the Springall mansion . |
| 19 | And then our there when he was a youngster , when he first went in the Navy he did in Shottley , had a big you know , big the use of . |
| 20 | And every Sunday after service he invited " a good number of his friends to his house , where he first reads over the paper , and then comments upon the text " . |
| 21 | In this small group of tales he first described in the third person how a murder had happened and then in the voice of his " Watson " narrated the activities of his sleuth , Dr Thorndyke , the scientist , in bringing the murderer to book . |
| 22 | As the leader of the Romantic school of young French painters , Bonington took London by storm when he first exhibited at the British Institution in 1826 . |
| 23 | feels that a contempt has occurred , he first complains to the Speaker who considers whether a breach of privilege has prima facie occurred . |
| 24 | He first appears in the records as a junior clerk or singing-man in Henry VI 's chapel royal , in 1441 . |
| 25 | He had said that he did not want a solicitor when he first arrived at the police station , at 2 p.m . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh no , I 've known Paul since 1984 when he first appeared on the LA scene in an excellent band called Black Sheep . |
| 27 | He first spoke on the French invasion of the Ruhr . |
| 28 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
| 29 | He first started in the 1940s while stationed as an army draftsman in London , and from 1966 to 1988 made annual return visits , establishing relationships with Agnew 's , Jeremy Drummond , J.S. Maas and others . |
| 30 | Was he ready to retire from the fray — the rather delicious and exhilarating fray — just yet ? |