Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |
| 2 | Instead , she guides him to check his suggestion and when he realises that he is not successful , she skilfully involves him in the final solution to the problem . |
| 3 | Dorchester may have been an extreme case , but throughout England , there were hard-working , anxious , godly folk whose rage with their king eventually led him to the scaffold at Whitehall . |
| 4 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 5 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 6 | Mr Clay went on to tell of his visits to a bone-setter , who successfully healed him after an accident . |
| 7 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 8 | This eventually drew him into the company of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v. ] and the band of young men who surrounded him , and the combination of their enthusiasm and insights produced the Christian Socialist movement of 1848 to 1854 . |
| 9 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 10 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 11 | He says that Wilko always talked in riddles with him , became jealous at his popularity and so sold him to the scum so he would appear to be a traitor . |
| 12 | She only fought him for a moment or two . |
| 13 | Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest . |
| 14 | After a few weeks , Mr Sowerberry decided that he liked Oliver 's appearance enough to train him in the undertaking business . |
| 15 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 16 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 17 | In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot . |
| 18 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 19 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 20 | It alone provided him with an ideal of peace . |
| 21 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 22 | The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him . |
| 23 | It felt good to talk about it , to describe her sense of total humiliation at having , as it were , bared herself to Matthew only to find him in a dressing gown , with some … strumpet drinking coffee with her dress half-unbuttoned . |
| 24 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 25 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 26 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 27 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
| 28 | By 1864 his interest in Christianity and his deference to family expectations were still strong enough to lead him to the choice of theology as one of his two subjects at Bonn ; but there is no doubt that belief was a thing of the past . |
| 29 | Were n't you saying in the tent only yesterday : " When Charles has been beaten and stripped of his weapons , I 'll personally tonsure him as a cleric and take him back to Ravenna " ? |
| 30 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |