Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He laid it down on a rock and plunged his arm in the sack once more . |
| 2 | He passed her by without a glance , but she could feel the cold waves of antipathy issuing from him , and shivered . |
| 3 | So he sold it on to a this kid and it was up Baxters |
| 4 | " He asked you in for a drink without asking me ? " |
| 5 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 6 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 7 | He fixed us up with a drink , accommodation and a training session that evening . |
| 8 | He drove her back in a battered silver sports car . |
| 9 | She tried to turn her head away , but he turned it back with a gentleness that was deceptive . |
| 10 | Pulling off his black leather jacket and kicking off his shoes , he threw himself on to a bed . |
| 11 | He handed it over at a rendezvous — but Elizabeth was kept in her captor 's car boot for another two hours before being dumped . |
| 12 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 13 | He shook himself out of a spiral of suspicion and isolation . |
| 14 | Billie heard the housekeeper ask Adam in the kitchen as he followed her through for a new packet of cigarettes . |
| 15 | But unlike many well-meaning friends , he followed it up with a practical alternative : ‘ Tell God every detail of your needs in earnest and thankful prayer , and the peace of God , which transcends human understanding , will keep constant guard over your hearts and minds as they rest in Christ Jesus . ’ |
| 16 | But his comment on her age was a throwaway one , it seemed , for he followed it up with a reference to his previous question by asking , ‘ Are you an only child ? ’ |
| 17 | In these crates — ’ he beckoned her over with a cool , authoritative wave ‘ — is the very latest ‘ state of the art ’ satellite communication system imported from France . |
| 18 | Then , in a fit of excess , he ratcheted it up to a full 2 million job losses . |
| 19 | The little girls squealed with delight as he swung them round in a circle , before setting them back gently on to the sand . |
| 20 | And those loonies expect him to — ’ He cut himself off with a hard slap to the bald head . |
| 21 | Then he packed them off on a plane to Islamabad to meet the president . |
| 22 | He padded them out with a torn sheet from sick bay to stop them making any noise . |
| 23 | After askin ’ how everything was doing back home , he waved me through with a laugh . |
| 24 | He waved it around in a manner that threatened to do someone a serious injury . |
| 25 | ‘ He shoved me on to a toilet seat and punched me , ’ Claire said . |
| 26 | He took them out on a spree the night before , just the three of them . |
| 27 | He took her out to a restaurant one evening , a farewell dinner , he said , as she was going to go back and live with her mother , and he gave her a lot to eat and drink and later that night came into her room and raped her . |
| 28 | A couple of months ago he took her out for a meal and she tried to kiss him . |
| 29 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 30 | Well he , he took it down by a certain amount by putting onto VAT . |