Example sentences of "[prep] he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 'e did ter my dad after 'im workin' fer the man all those years was enough , apart from anyfing else . ’ |
| 2 | The theatrical man occasionally glanced towards him looking for an opening ; but he did n't let himself be drawn in . |
| 3 | There was a puff of white smoke from the highwayman 's gun , and the horse of the man riding towards him reared in the air . |
| 4 | The piper was coming towards him wrapped in a black cloak , playing … what had he been playing ? |
| 5 | It had been prudent of him to call in the police surgeon to confirm his estimate of the time of death . |
| 6 | Goons to either side of him took in the air through their foreheads . |
| 7 | Multiple shadows of him fell on the perimeter wall , leaping like pale giants . |
| 8 | ‘ And whatever his accent or his defects , I do n't suppose one of those blockheads making a jeer of him listened to a word he was saying . ’ |
| 9 | Part of him hankered after the poetic Victorian times when women died in childbirth at twenty leaving their partner free to get another young girl . |
| 10 | Now , however , the Scots were more audacious and belligerent than ever , and Lancaster was the heir to Edward 's problems , particularly as the earl raised quite as many qualms and suspicions as the king did ; there was even talk of him allying with the Scots in order to defeat his English enemies . |
| 11 | Even though I could now visualize a cell or a room , and a man chained to a wall , trying to occupy his mind and keep his fears at bay , when I thought of John it was like thinking of him lost in an abstract painting which I did n't understand . |
| 12 | And now to think of him listening to the rhapsody of such another youngster as this Merbury , besotted as they all were on their paragon , Hotspur ! |
| 13 | There was Stringfellows ' night club , that appalling leather suit , the friendship with an aerobic gymnast , newspaper photos of him stripped to the waist , the gold earrings , and his nights on the town . |
| 14 | FOLLOWING our revelation yesterday of claims about Di and her friend Major James Hewitt , it was reported last night that a photo exists of him stripped to the waist as he chats to the princess . |
| 15 | Sheriff Crozier said yesterday that it would have been wrong of him to deal with the matter behind the scenes . |
| 16 | There was a big picture of him dressed in a fancy cowboy suit and Stetson hat , riding the pony Buddie had bought from a circus because it would n't allow the big men to ride on its back . |
| 17 | Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it . |
| 18 | They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . |
| 19 | yes , he 's took a photo of him sitting on the bike so you then he just had to pin it up on , on my thingy , and it 'd say , you know , you 'll never have this , it 'll give you something to , to go for . |
| 20 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 21 | He had a momentary vision of the tall , proud tower blocks that rose on either side of him collapsing in a cloud of dust . |
| 22 | Even the opening report of him comes from an unusual source — his own vivid memory of how he learned to walk . |
| 23 | Nutty thought of him sleeping with the chestnut mare … |
| 24 | There were pictures of him fooling on a mono-ski ; triumphant beside a huge fish hauled tail-up by a rope , his arms flung around the necks of two fellows . |
| 25 | We thought of him lying in a cell . |
| 26 | When I think of him sighing in the lane on the other side of the Park he seems far too close to home , far too much a part of all the difficult things in life . |
| 27 | He managed to catch a brief glimpse of him talking to a man at the end of the platform . |
| 28 | She remembered vividly the sight of him crying in the car that night , and she still did n't understand what that had been about . |
| 29 | There were only ladders between the floors and , as he grasped the rungs , he saw again his aunt 's long trousered legs ahead of him disappearing into the chamber above . |
| 30 | The prospect of him returning to the family home prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act . |