Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 2 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 3 | With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring . |
| 4 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 5 | After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango . |
| 6 | Although it meant a detour he drove them through the Bois du Boulogne . |
| 7 | Then , almost alone , he awaited his fate , and as the British troops stormed through the gateway of his stronghold he shot himself with a pistol sent to him in happier days by Queen Victoria . |
| 8 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 9 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 10 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 11 | In his key he differentiates them on the number of arm spines and suggested that A. grandis could be separated from A. otteri by its ridged proximal ventral arm plates and by a lower number of arm spines . |
| 12 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 13 | A row erupted and when they reached Craylands he threw her to the ground and blasted her twice with a shotgun . |
| 14 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 15 | After the rape he dragged her to an alley but she broke free . |
| 16 | All he could see of the lifeboat was her searchlight beam , and with that as his only reference he guided her to the scene . |
| 17 | Writing out a receipt he bethought himself of the verse from the Book of Proverbs : ‘ Eishes chayil … . |
| 18 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 19 | One moment he loved them like a brother , then he 'd turn away and never want to speak fondly to them again . |
| 20 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
| 21 | When he tore off people 's buttons or sprinkled their trousers he did it in a spirit of the purest amity . |
| 22 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 23 | With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional . |
| 24 | At a press conference he committed himself to a big recruitment drive for Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , and , if necessary , to putting more resources into local authorities in order to make the bill work . |
| 25 | If Professor Benson here were to make a very brief precis of the lecture he gave us in the wardroom this evening it might give them something more to think about . ’ |
| 26 | At our last meeting he presented me with a pair of small Tibetan scrolls . |
| 27 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 28 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 29 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 30 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |