Example sentences of "[prep] he [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 2 | I tried to turn in behind him but found that I was going to overshoot and pulled away to starboard . |
| 3 | He shut the door quickly behind him and came and sat on the small wooden chair in the corner . |
| 4 | Jesus left heaven behind him and came and offended the traditions of the church . |
| 5 | Before he could reach out and stab him as he planned , and then kill his companion too , and with support from his companions , seize the cannon himself , he heard a scream of pain behind him and realised that another of his fellow fighters had fallen from the ring fence on to the ground . |
| 6 | Leith sank down into a chair the moment the outer door had closed behind him and discovered that she was trembling . |
| 7 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 8 | She remonstrated with him and explained that she had stopped because she had never seen such a fish before . |
| 9 | He looked up at the formidable stone keep of Gloucester Castle towering three storeys above him and wondered if there was danger within , although his task was straightforward enough . |
| 10 | She went to cringe back from him but stilled as he started to unbutton his shirt . |
| 11 | When its flapping had started to irritate me , I snatched it from him and saw that it was ruled like a timetable . |
| 12 | Since then he had often recalled what Adam said next , had taken the gun from him and remarked that it was a pump-action shot-gun . |
| 13 | Leith took the towel he had rolled into a ball from him and decided that a cup of strong black coffee might not come amiss . |
| 14 | He was silent , but she could sense anger burning slowly inside him and wondered if it was directed at her . |
| 15 | Throckmorton also claimed that Sir Thomas More [ q.v. ] had once sent for him and promised that if he continued ‘ in the same way ’ and was not afraid , he would ‘ deserve great reward from God ’ . |
| 16 | The omniscient and all powerful Archbishop Laud sent for him and decided that ‘ it was for the advantage of the world that such mighty parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and improvement than a course of constant preaching would allow of ’ . |
| 17 | His mother had returned home without him and stated that she had never felt he was really her baby . |
| 18 | Moran had written to him and assumed that he would come . |
| 19 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 20 | He says I 'd better go and check the money so he said erm but what he could n't understand was they wrote to him and said that they have n't paid the cheques but they did n't say anything about freezing his account ! |
| 21 | And as th Jesus come into the house , the blind men came up to him and said and Jesus said to him , do you believe that I am able to do this ? |
| 22 | He hugged her to him and insisted that she had a drink on the house . |
| 23 | She nodded , handed it to him and watched as he put her key into one of the locks and the duplicate he carried into the other , turning both simultaneously . |
| 24 | She stayed on at the hotel and distracted him and then the next day other people got to him and explained that Parkinson was really a nice guy and that it was like painting and . |
| 25 | As the Scot pushed his way past me I grabbed him , put an arm-lock on him and suggested that he had a drink elsewhere . |
| 26 | The driver glanced at him but sensed that Whitlock was n't in the mood to talk . |
| 27 | But , as she looked at him and witnessed that he was white with temper , so ‘ furious ’ seemed to be too mild a word . |
| 28 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 29 | She started to bristle , but then she looked at him and saw that his smile was open and good-humoured . |
| 30 | She turned to stare at him and saw that he was smiling — a twisted smile that made her colour rise quickly . |