Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 30-year-old man , who has not been named , died despite the efforts of coastguards and ambulancemen , who tried to revive him after a failed rescue attempt by surfers . |
| 2 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 3 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 4 | A paper boy on his morning round was grabbed by a man who then tried to drag him into a waiting car . |
| 5 | The boy was deliverying papers in Kingham village just before seven this morning when a man tried to drag him into a waiting estate car . |
| 6 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 7 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 8 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 9 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 10 | They valued his vigour and inventiveness and came to respect him as a reliable man of business . |
| 11 | But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin . |
| 12 | Naihe from Ka'u on the Big Island was so expert a surfer that his fellow chiefs grew jealous and plotted to lure him into a surfing contest in which he would die . |
| 13 | Far from resenting Lucien 's new-found favour , the other vibrancers in the house began to treat him with a new respect once his alliance with Jeopardy became common knowledge . |
| 14 | We began to treat him like a strange alien person who need to be over-protected , who needed to be shielded from outsiders and the press . |
| 15 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 16 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 17 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 18 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 19 | The wind threatened to pluck him like a ripe orange off a tree . |
| 20 | His refusal to grant extra funding on the grounds of ‘ basic need ’ at the two schools in his own constituency created a political storm which threatened to deprive him of the Roman Catholic vote in the general election . |
| 21 | And she , in turn , knowingly and secretly absorbing his stare as she listened to her chattering companions , began to dismiss him as a potential client . |
| 22 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 23 | She insisted that hospitalization was necessary and threatened to commit him to a private mental hospital unless the university hospital took him as an in-patient . |
| 24 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |
| 25 | She started towing him towards the back room . |
| 26 | We decided to present him with a small token which he can take to his new life , and keep in memory of his bachelor days and the friends he has left behind . |
| 27 | In 1965 , his friend Roman Polanski started telling him about a beautiful French girl that ‘ I would be mad for . |
| 28 | She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story . |
| 29 | They agreed to release him as an uncontested registration to enable him to find a county where he could hope for greater opportunities , and although we ca n't guarantee a first-team place , he 'll get plenty of chances if he does the business . |
| 30 | The Great Britain forward , sent off for tripping Mike Ford in Saturday 's Regal Trophy defeat by Castleford , presented video evidence to yesterday 's Rugby League disciplinary committee , but it failed to save him from a two-match ban . |