Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 2 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 3 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 4 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 5 | He lowered himself into an old leather chair and continued chewing while he waited . |
| 6 | After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair . |
| 7 | Beside a muddy pool in a shadow-dappled patch of jungle where faint feeding tracks had finally petered out , he lowered himself onto a fallen log . |
| 8 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 9 | He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers . |
| 10 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 11 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 12 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 13 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 14 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 15 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 16 | He sold himself to a local pig farmer . |
| 17 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 18 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 19 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 20 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 21 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 22 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 23 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 24 | Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake . |
| 25 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 26 | George Hurst , the son of a curate , was born in 1800 and was apprenticed to a silk mercer at the age of 13 , at the end of which time he applied himself to an energetic programme of self-improvement and became a schoolteacher . |
| 27 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 28 | He led her to a tiny table in one corner , and she resolutely ignored the fact that nearly everyone else — the place was surprisingly crowded — wore slinky and fashionable black . |
| 29 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
| 30 | He led her to a waiting taxi and , as he held the door for her , for a brief instant their eyes met . |