Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT was widely assumed that Sir Lawrie Barratt was working for nothing when he re-took the reins of his housebuilding empire last summer . |
| 2 | ‘ Get out now , ’ Shamlou ordered the other two terrorists and waited for them before he entered the makeshift cage . |
| 3 | Celtic pressed forward — and Collins made it a memorable night for them when he shot the third goal eleven minutes from time . |
| 4 | ‘ You were having a nightmare , chick , ’ he said and his face looked gaunt and anguished in the spill from the street-lamp as he rearranged the bedclothes , making a ‘ little nest ’ for me before he left the room , pulling his nightshirt round him . |
| 5 | He found out himself because he read the note Barbara asked him to deliver to you . |
| 6 | She shuffled after him as he left the house , almost too exhausted now to put one foot in front of the other . |
| 7 | He could still hear the men yelling and laughing and whistling after him as he dragged the iron gate closed with a loud clang behind him . |
| 8 | She was obliged to follow , stumbling after him as he took the ladder two at a time . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , each Neapolitan is out for himself but he recognises the need to live as harmoniously as possible with everyone else . ’ |
| 10 | He quickly made a name for himself when he reversed the works lorry into a workshop wall and was banned from driving the Company vehicles until after he could drive properly . |
| 11 | He had the best for himself and he wanted the best for his Mollie . |
| 12 | Willie caught sight of them as he turned the corner . |
| 13 | She Stephen showed the gift of something when he preached the truth about God and the message of Jesus . |
| 14 | She moved towards him and he patted the boy on the shoulder as he rose to his feet . |
| 15 | And that was the problem , Sabine thought , staring rigidly ahead of her as he started the car . |
| 16 | She had winkled out of him that he got the story from Georgie and she had much trouble persuading him it was a joke . |
| 17 | Unbeaten all year and even expected to win by his rivals , the 26-year-old had looked odds-on to win the senior world title which British athletics had been expecting of him since he won the junior crown in 1986 . |
| 18 | People knew of him because he took the pictures of more collective Sheringham life — weddings , school celebrations . |
| 19 | At first he could not see anything , but then someone pushed a lighted torch in front of him and he caught the gleam of the bluish-grey metal inside . |
| 20 | The words , both exclamation and prayer , were forced out of him as he reached the bend in the road and came on the village of Granard . |
| 21 | I tried to run past him but he grabbed the collar of my coat . |
| 22 | Did the runner bringing the news from the battlefield run straight past him when he reached the town ? |
| 23 | This paraphrase is not entirely appropriate as a description of the meaning expressed however ; Jespersen ( 1940 : 280 ) does a better job of it when he characterizes the sense of see with the bare infinitive as that of " immediate perception " , and its sense with the to infinitive as that of " inference " . |
| 24 | ‘ We were talking about radiation transmitted from the cosmos and he mentioned about his space flight , ’ explained Eric , who thought nothing more of it until he received the signed sticker through the post . |
| 25 | No doubt he will be reminded of us when he re-visits the Lake District ( one of his favourite haunts ) and it rains ! |
| 26 | Abandoning herself to the overpowering intoxication of his embrace , she parted her lips beneath his as he ravished the inner sweetness of her mouth . |
| 27 | In denying his humanity you become , in however diluted a form , like him when he denied the humanity of those he killed . |
| 28 | Sidacai and Arghatun were close behind him as he descended the stairs . |
| 29 | He did not look behind him until he reached the corner . |
| 30 | Soldiers , right , stab her and they 're all dying and then you see the head like it 's just all dressed up in these things and it 's Arnie underneath it and he takes the head off |