Example sentences of "he [vb past] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca . |
| 2 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 3 | To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage . |
| 4 | As each door opened to him , he made the same statement . |
| 5 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 6 | If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable . |
| 7 | His weeklies were produced by new technology in defiance of union opposition , and he planned the same methods for Today . |
| 8 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 9 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 10 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 11 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
| 12 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
| 13 | Cooper was trained as an art historian and he applied the same methodology and rigorous scholarship to his chosen artists as earlier generations had to the Old Masters . |
| 14 | To receive Sainteny he asked the former emperor Bao Dai to stand with him and endorse the agreement . |
| 15 | As a result , he got the same response as he had received at Munich : ‘ Sorry , no vacancies ’ . |
| 16 | At the end of June 1862 , not long after Young Russia and the fires in St Petersburg — and immediately after an attempt on the life of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich — Valuev produced a paper on the internal condition of the empire in which he admitted the many difficulties under which the government was labouring but proposed no more than converting the State Council into a somewhat more representative body and bypassing the judicial system to deal with radicals more speedily . |
| 17 | Later in the year he conveyed the same message to the visiting American Under-Secretary of State , George Ball . |
| 18 | He read the few lines through , then closed his eyes for a moment before reading aloud . |
| 19 | But this in essence is just what Pooh did when he inferred the same belief about honey from his direct observation of bees . |
| 20 | Again he found the same link between unemployment and mortality . |
| 21 | The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes . |
| 22 | Everywhere he found the same thing : elderly employees , attempting to run things as they thought the old baron would have wanted , out of touch with new ideas , fearful of taking any decision on their own , and consequently stalling , allowing problems to build up . |
| 23 | Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide . |
| 24 | Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 25 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 26 | He used the same technique as when looking for a lost golf ball and took a line on a large house on the Ramsgate front . |
| 27 | He used the same language as that employed by the Chinese government to explain away the unrest that the democracy movement unleashed in May and June — namely that it was the work of a ‘ handful of evil-doers ’ . |
| 28 | But then Carver had heard that on other occasions he used the same language about Galvone . |
| 29 | Face it , he used the same joke on everybody . |
| 30 | He used the same line with his mother ; for once he did n't give her the real reason . |