Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 2 | If challenged to justify why blacks are struck from the jury , prosecutors offer the most ridiculous reasons — ‘ he looked dumb ’ , ‘ he lived in the same part of town as the defendant ’ ( most blacks live in the same part of town ) , ‘ he was a mason and I was worried about masonic links ’ ( the prospective juror was a stone mason by profession ) . |
| 3 | Huss is remembered by a street named after him ( the Hussenstrasse ) and by his effigy on the house where he lived in the same street . |
| 4 | He lived in the same house near Henley on Thames from 1935 , and remained inspired by English country scenes , like St Matthews near Lechlade and classic buildings like the Oxford buildings ensuring that his links with this region remain strong . |
| 5 | He lived in the same house near Henley on Thames from 1935 , and remained inspired by English country scenes , like St Matthews near Lechlade and classic buildings like the Oxford buildings ensuring that his links with this region remain strong . |
| 6 | ‘ Are there servants in the house ? ’ he asked in the same low voice . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's dead too ? ’ he asked in the same cold , interrogative voice . |
| 8 | ‘ So how , then , do you propose we get to know each other ? ’ he asked in the same soft tone . |
| 9 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 10 | ‘ And did you have no electricity ? ’ he probed in the same soft , lilting voice . |
| 11 | Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier . |
| 12 | Many years later , in the ‘ time of early love ’ , he wandered in the same area , which was now invested with ‘ youth 's golden gleam ’ ( see Elegiac Stanzas , p. 140 ) . |
| 13 | He seemed to get over it , but he behaved in the same alarming manner in court this morning . |
| 14 | Jolosa stormed : ‘ If he played in the same league that I do , he 'd end up in trouble too . ’ |
| 15 | Where did he begin his career ? — with Banbury United , and he played in the same youth side as me . |
| 16 | He sees the month in New Zealand , where he played against the All Blacks in 1985 , not as a final proving ground but as a searching test of known ability and attitudes . |
| 17 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 18 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 19 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |
| 20 | He came to the same conclusion as Duncan . |
| 21 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |
| 22 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 23 | He dodged past the few remaining couples who still danced , then turned into the supper room . |
| 24 | By a different route , he arrived at the same conclusion of ‘ proportionality ’ as retribution required . |
| 25 | I think it 's just that he arrived at the same conclusions . |
| 26 | In portraiture he obtained at the same time a good likeness , much appreciated by the sitters and their families , and , in these works and in his more fanciful subjects , he engendered feelings of respect and admiration . |
| 27 | At the end of the news conference Mr Levy was asked a question in Hebrew , to which he replied in the same language ; there was no translation , and Mr Hurd was forced to summon a member of the British Embassy staff to translate . |
| 28 | Collinson 's first garden at Peckham was a modest one , but from there he took nosegays and potted flowers to grace his City window , and when Kalm visited him in 1748 he remarked on the many rare American plants already established there . |
| 29 | He walked along the same three or four streets twice until it seemed pointless to continue . |
| 30 | His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar . |