Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt as though the tree he was sitting in and the green leaves all around him belonged to another world altogether and that he was a trespasser who had no right to be where he was . |
| 2 | Commenting on Lord Castlehaven 's case , he stated : ‘ Tho in marriage she hath given up her body to her husband , she is not to be by him prostituted to another . ’ |
| 3 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
| 4 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |
| 5 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |
| 6 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 7 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 8 | Samuel Whitfield Daukes was his name , and what a very fine job he made of this rambling Gothic house of flint with its stone dressings , its ‘ Tudor ’ windows with their mullions and transomes , and its jolly carved bargeboards . |
| 9 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 10 | Douglas Young reports from the Berlin Film Festival on several exciting discoveries he made among this year 's entries ( and some he wishes he had n't ) |
| 11 | He pounced on that instantly . |
| 12 | And when they turned homeward , to tell their grandfather what they had seen and heard , the king of the vookodlaks scurried away to a muddy , murky , bushy part of the wood where he lived with all his tribe of ugly , dark , hairy , spiteful , brawling goblins . |
| 13 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 14 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 15 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 16 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |
| 17 | He lived for another four years while his empire lapsed into chaos . |
| 18 | Perhaps as a result , he lived in some poverty for a time in old age , though he was eventually rescued by his friends . |
| 19 | With equal ease and sympathy he penetrated into that maze of Roman rules , conventions and unexpected reactions in which many other Hellenistic politicians lost their way . |
| 20 | The former Millwall star , now a writer and broadcaster , stunned the packed audience at a football evening at Waterstone 's Bookshop in London 's Charing Cross Road as he laid into more of the game 's major figures . |
| 21 | Although he succeeded in that task he was surprisingly replaced in mid-summer 1982 by Alan Mullery . |
| 22 | Again , by exercising his powers of persuasion and sticking to his guns , Pearce 's view prevailed and he succeeded in both aims . |
| 23 | This concentration on christology is of the very essence of Barth 's method , but the greatness of his theological achievement lies not simply in the method and form of the whole , but in the way in which he succeeded by this means in re-integrating and casting quite fresh light on all the great leading themes of classical orthodox belief . |
| 24 | Leith was still gasping at his audacity as well as at his discernment when , flicking a glance at the way her chestnut hair was fastened in a repressive knot , he inserted with another glance at her severe hairstyle , ‘ Now why would a beautiful woman , with equally beautiful hair , try to hide her beauty behind glasses which she clearly does n't need , try to minimise the beauty of her splendid hair , and also try to detract attention from what I clearly recall is a figure of delightful shape and proportions ? ’ |
| 25 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 26 | He cared about this . |
| 27 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 28 | But he reneged on that promise and said he would wait for a message from God . |
| 29 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 30 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |