Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australian authorities took a commendably enlightened view of the matter , however , and allowed him to carry out research on the Trobriand Islands close to New Guinea . |
| 2 | This enabled him to cash out blood in the currency of hours of prolonged life . |
| 3 | Were a seller to accept such an indemnity he would probably want to add further clauses requiring the buyer to give prompt notification of such claims , to permit him to take over conduct of the claim , not to admit liability , and to render him any necessary assistance in contesting the claim . |
| 4 | As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man . |
| 5 | Nursery owner Paul Hutchinson has been able to keep track of Wally 's progress through reports to police from startled motorists who spotted him hopping along roads in the area . |
| 6 | He laid out lines of the drug in a bedroom for Suzanne , her 19-year-old boyfriend Neil Young and friends Steve Richmond and Graham Longstaff . |
| 7 | Samuel 's argument uses the example of ‘ nation ’ , which he points out historians of the left have shied away from either as a subject of study or as a symbolic category . |
| 8 | He passed out top in the Foreign Office entrance exam after Oxford and began work in Whitehall on the European Political Co-operation desk , ironically named given that at that time General de Gaulle was thwarting Britain 's European ambitions . |
| 9 | In 1628 , now established as chief minister , he drew up proposals for the systematic preservation of official papers of all kinds , including those relating to foreign affairs ; but nothing came of this . |
| 10 | As well as his authorship of many books he drew up plans for the House of Correction at Maidstone , was elected to the Rochester Bridge Corporation , a deputy Alienations officer , deputy Keeper of the Rolls , President of Cobham College and , a few months before his death , Keeper of the records in the Tower of London . |
| 11 | He sucked in lungfuls of the cool fresh air and looked around for human habitation . |
| 12 | He rose up light in the stirrups , He scarce could reach her hand , but she loosened her casement , his face burnt like a brand . |
| 13 | He came out top in the mechanical engineering section of the competition , run by CAD User magazine . |
| 14 | He turned over passages of the interview as he drove back to Regent 's Park Road , committing them to memory for later recitation . |
| 15 | Other than that he showed up Giggs for the puke faced brat that he is ( all 10,000,000 and Papin worth of him — Ferguson will rue the day he turned down that offer ) . |
| 16 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 17 | His back window was starred where the bullet had entered so he knocked out part of the pane to give clear vision as he feared the car might be followed by other gunmen . |
| 18 | He pulled off part of the officer 's jumper and pulled it tightly across the back of his neck . |
| 19 | When Henry Yevele designed the west gate at Canterbury in 1378 , he included round gunports on the drum towers , gunports having been introduced into England some years earlier . |
| 20 | One of them was his habitual slowness , especially in handling and totting up cash ; for , before he took up duties in the foreign exchange department of Lloyds in the semi-basement room at the branch at 20 King William Street ( no wonder that the eyes and back , at the end of the day , turned ‘ upward ’ from the desk ) , he worked for a period behind the counter . |
| 21 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 22 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 23 | Interned when the government declared martial law in December 1981 , but released 11 months later , he took up employment at the shipyard in the spring of 1983 and in October of that year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 24 | A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School . |
| 25 | He took down volumes from the shelves , undid their clasps and , chattering like a child , pointed out the beauty of the calligraphy . |
| 26 | Slowly , so slowly , he brought up handfuls of the bright tresses , and they slid like silk through his fingers . |
| 27 | Carrie was afraid at first that Albert would despise such a babyish pastime but he seemed to enjoy it as much as Nick did , shouting with laughter when he tripped over bumps in the ice and not wanting to stop , even when she said it was time they were going . |
| 28 | He went down country with the Army , and there 's a big difference between there and up here — it 's not a place where economy is considered in the same way , so maybe he learned some bad habits , such as a tendency to alcoholic drink . |
| 29 | He put out food for the rabbits , but not too near the warren . |
| 30 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |