Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he made for the door she said , ‘ You wo n't forget to take that bottle in for her , will you ? |
| 2 | As he made for the door he heard the phone ringing in the hall and when he entered he saw Joe turn from the telephone table towards him , saying , ‘ It 's for you , Martin . |
| 3 | And he did n't forget the man he had beaten , and to whom he acknowledged America owed a debt : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of public service , for the effort he made from the time he was a young soldier in the second world war , to helping to bring about an end to the Cold War , to our victory in the Gulf War , to the grace with which he conceded the results of this election tonight in the finest American tradition . ’ |
| 4 | From 1865 to 1871 he lived on the estates he had inherited in Scotland , and then spent his last years at Cambridge . |
| 5 | Now he checked with the policeman whose beat took him down Glenfair Road , the main thoroughfare into which Boundary Drive ran ; The list of car numbers he had noted that evening for one reason or another was unproductive . |
| 6 | There was a long pause while she cleared the bed of her things , and she was aware of his eyes on her every movement as he checked over the items she 'd packed for any signs of decadence . |
| 7 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 8 | He belongs to the drug he 's hooked on and he 'll do anything to get it . |
| 9 | The business community regognises him as ‘ one of us ’ , and he belongs to the generation which will be in its prime in 1997 . |
| 10 | Of course he belongs to the class which dedicates itself from the beginning , single-mindedly to literature , but yet not in the way we would think of . |
| 11 | Mounted on a white horse , he rode into the city which had for so long defied and denied him . |
| 12 | He whipped off the rag which the wind caught and blew against one of the spiked heads . |
| 13 | Then he refers to the passage which I have already read . |
| 14 | As he got into the car he heard a shout and saw Cissie running down the track towards him , disregarding the mud which splashed up over her legs as she ran . |
| 15 | As he got to the door he snatched his eyes away and blundered through the doorway . |
| 16 | And when he got to the river he took the pole — and he pushed the body off ! |
| 17 | Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery . |
| 18 | By the time he got to the ice-cream he was too weary to eat , so he downed the bourbon — which instantly took its toll — and retired to bed , leaving the television on in the next room , its sound turned down to a soporific burble . |
| 19 | By the time he got to the house he knew each phrase by heart . |
| 20 | Before he got on the Kawasaki he spoke into it and then tilted his helmet to hear the response . |
| 21 | Today , Alexei is pale , tires easily and has frequent colds and infections but , despite the continual doses of radiation he receives in the food he eats , the water he drinks , he is still in reasonable health . |
| 22 | He looks in the mirror he keeps in his mind , and sees his wife clinging to his arm and the children clustered round her skirts ; all looking up at him , as that giver of all good gifts , the wage-earner . |
| 23 | so every time he looks in the mirror he 'll know |
| 24 | She would be ashamed if he found out the way she 'd sanctified the memory of his alter ego over the years . |
| 25 | She remembered the lover made up out of books and poems she had dreamed of all summer ; he crumpled like the paper he was made of before this insolent , off-hand , terrifying maleness , filling the room with its reek . |
| 26 | As he moved into the room he was aware of Massingham behind him , alert , already drawing on his gloves but , for him , unnaturally subservient , pacing quietly behind his chief like a recently qualified houseman deferentially attendant on the consultant . |
| 27 | The covering of hair did nothing to disguise the rippling muscles , as he moved to the chair she 'd indicated , and she swallowed painfully . |
| 28 | Home again , and alone , he rhapsodised over the scene he had witnessed . |
| 29 | He peered into the woods which flanked the road , |
| 30 | As he peered through the binoculars he felt a tremor of excitement course through him at the prospect of seeing the printed images come to life . |