Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll think about it , ’ said Vernon , and he stumped up the steps with his polishing cloth and rubbed vigorously at the lion's-head knocker of the door . |
| 2 | And the woman lost her brooch on the way back and she saw this man next morning , he was a policeman in , and he he was too fond of the drink , a and he he was on , he was a railway policeman , and he fell onto the rails , when the train was coming , nobody knows how he how he how he er he lost one arm er about there and the other one about there , both arms but he he survived it . |
| 3 | He was born in South Africa and he studied at the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge , and has taught in universities in Britain , in America , in West Africa and France and Germany . |
| 4 | There was a small knee-hole desk and he went through the drawers but found nothing more than discarded pens , broken pencils , old catalogues , a quantity of scrap paper , and an assortment of pins and clips . |
| 5 | and he went into the toilets and there was a lot of coloured men there , Do you want to buy some dope ? |
| 6 | There was no sound from behind now , and he leant against the bannisters for a moment , his upper body swaying over them , and his stomach began to heave . |
| 7 | There was a wide area where the passage broadened out and he lingered by the steps until the raincoat came in sight . |
| 8 | The concrete was cold to his bottom , and he stared at the stairs down which Bunty had fallen , his throat and his face and his eyes seeming to swell up in a great hot surge of grief . |
| 9 | After we went through the second door , Buff stood without moving and he looked at the trees and did n't say anything . |
| 10 | And something else ; something he saw as the curtain tore away and he looked into the depths of the unbelievable face above him , fractionally dulled his reflexes . |
| 11 | Erm , Jack does gamble , erm , with his , with the dogs but he , but he also breeds them as well , and he goes to the dogs two or three times a week . |
| 12 | Mrs Knight 's neighbour joined her and he left without the drawers . |
| 13 | He was regularly attending to the pumps on Sundays for which he was paid 1/ the " stem " , or day , and he assisted in the workings by wheelbarrowing and other miscellaneous jobs . |
| 14 | ooh if they , cos me eldest lad he does the karate he 's in Wiltshire , he 's in the police force , he does karate , he 's got his own schools and he mixes with the Japs a lot |
| 15 | And he added to the problems confronting new Welsh Secretary John Redwood by referring to Wales as one of the ‘ isolated fortresses ’ held by the Tory Right in the Government . |
| 16 | So she beckoned to Baptiste and he crept up the stairs after her , his shoes in his hand . |
| 17 | Socially , he was at the top of the ladder and he lived to the limits of his wealth . |
| 18 | The Abbey was founded by David I in 1178 and he granted to the Canons the right to establish their own Burgh of Canongate between the Abbey and the royal burgh of Edinburgh . |
| 19 | He had known it would not satisfy them , and he waited for the rumbles to grow before he said : ‘ Very well . |
| 20 | ‘ Night , ’ he said again and he disappeared down the steps , closing the trap-door after him . |
| 21 | And he said from the looks of it there must have been you know sort of dead , whatever it was , and there was a couple of fingers and a couple of toes , right ? |
| 22 | The man at the top leaves go once you 've got it well resting on the ladder and he runs down the stairs to meet you at the bottom by which time you 've got to the bottom rung , he comes takes one side of the wardrobe , you take the other and that 's all there is to it . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ he said , ‘ no need for that , ’ and he bounded up the stairs . |
| 24 | ‘ Michael ran a cab and he worked for the bookies on the side . |
| 25 | There are yours , ’ and he pointed at the papers and my escape equipment on the table . |
| 26 | Scripts , ’ and he pointed to the lines . |
| 27 | The gist of the words were , you 're under arrest for harbouring an escapee and he replied along the lines of you 've got ta be joking mate . |
| 28 | He was n't saying much ; mostly ‘ yessir ’ and ‘ certainly ’ and he ended with the words ‘ Very well , Mr Prior ’ and hung up . |
| 29 | Eventually the photographer 's indignation was assuaged , and he parted with the prints . |
| 30 | Rory was grateful not to get the lecture about the IRA men who had lived in foxholes in the soaking bog in the fifties , hunted out into the mountains by the B-men at the end of a long and terrible campaign , but he continued with the trains of thought . |