Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance .
2 After narrowly losing the 1784 by-election , Hotham visited Sussex , where he embarked upon the ambitious scheme of transforming the fishing hamlet of Bognor into the select watering-place of ‘ Hothamton ’ .
3 Before then he had 14 years in charge of West Ham , the club he joined as a schoolboy player and where he progressed through the ranks .
4 Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War .
5 He lives — with Judy , his wife of 24 years — in Ealing , West London , where he drinks at the cricket club and , along with the Kinnocks , is one of the local celebrities .
6 For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) .
7 Woosnam had had three birdies in his first five holes and the only shot he dropped in going out in 34 was to take five at the ninth , where he drove into the trees .
8 It arrived at the sixth , where he drove into the lake , picked out his ball under penalty , then hit it 260 yards with his 1-iron straight into the hole .
9 Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal .
10 Between Piccadilly and Putney , where he lived in the basement of a decaying Victorian house , he progressed through his usual states of somnolence , sick juddering wakefulness , and increasing worry about Val .
11 He did no wilful damage but regarded himself as entitled to go where he wished for the purpose in his mind without regard to the rights of ownership and the alleged presence of man traps and spring guns .
12 An ill man , he returned to his brother James 's farm , where he died at the early age of forty-seven , 19 October 1799 .
13 The vicar managed to catch him before he fell to the floor , and he was removed to his home , where he died on the Friday morning , 8 September .
14 His companion managed to drag him into St Stephen 's Hospital , where he died within the hour .
15 He had no Scots upbringing either , since in 1924 his family moved to south Yorkshire , where he studied at the local elementary school and at Wath-on-Dearne Grammar School , before entering Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1939 .
16 He has set up a pirate radio station in his bedroom , where he talks to the disaffected youth of his neighbourhood under the guise of Happy Harry Hard-On .
17 Like Russian Formalism , Richards 's early work turns its back on positivistic scholarship , and calls for a criticism that deals directly with the distinctive properties of literature ; where he differs from the Formalists , however , is in defining these properties in terms of human experience and human value .
18 Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ .
19 One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last .
20 It is this preoccupation which accounts for Derrida 's choice , and forceful interrogation , of the privileged examples of Saussure — where he focuses on the ‘ profound ethnocentrism ’ of his exclusion of writing — Rousseau and Lévi-Strauss .
21 In mid-November Sinterklaas sails in his steamer from Spain [ where he lives during the rest of the year ] to Holland .
22 Cassidy , I thought , was rather more interesting in his nightmarish salamander-prince incarnation , where he writhed around the stage in scaly green tights .
23 Sherlock Holmes leaves England for New York City where he comes to the aid of his long-time love , the famous stage actress Irene Adler .
24 A report on ( Hekmatyar 's ) Radio Message of Freedom on Sept. 24 said that former President Najibullah had been moved from the UN offices in Kabul ( where he fled at the outset of the fall of his regime ) to Mazar-i-Sharif " where he now lives under the intimidation and torture of leaders of the unholy coalition of the north " .
25 She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room .
26 Cameron also designed ( 1782–5 ) the palace of Pavlovsk for the Grand Duke Paul , where he built in the grounds the first Greek Revival building in Russia , the Temple of Friendship .
27 He did a really intimate show where he sat on the edge of the stage with his ankles crossed and talked to them and sang them songs .
28 The world of the Zoo seemed to move without any noise at all and around the Cages all was still but for the visitor Creggan had attacked , who swayed back and forth where he sat on the ground , others gathered around him .
29 Having lifted Hector into the vehicle , where he sat on the floorboards , panting with his tongue lolling out , and wagging a satisfied tail , Benedict swung himself up and grinned down at her as he took the reins into his hand .
30 It was in a cinema on 86th Street where he sat in the balcony , wearing an old sports jacket and open-necked shirt .
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