Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quicker he got rid of her the better . |
| 2 | It is plain from his private correspondence that , even if he had discovered by himself the mechanism by which species diverge , he had no intention of publishing until after his death . |
| 3 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 4 | Best to put off even thought until he had seen for himself the place where murder had been done , and the victim who had suffered it . |
| 5 | More than one witness recalled that it gained height steadily after being launched on several occasions in 1848 , and Stringfellow himself certainly considered that he had demonstrated with it the possibility of powered flight . |
| 6 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 7 | To turn the knife in the wound , he had mentioned to her the name of a local pub that had refused her singing act . |
| 8 | He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours . |
| 9 | He had brought with him the Bishop of Durham , which was mandatory , and which of course Thorfinn had matched by bringing Malduin , flashing an expensive ring of unknown provenance . |
| 10 | Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love . |