Example sentences of "the [noun] he [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One casualty of the game was John Ambrose … while running up the park he put his foot into a rabbit hole and twisted his ankle badly . |
| 2 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 3 | Early in the afternoon he heard his voice and went in to put his question . |
| 4 | In the Preface he resituated his earlier formulations as follows : |
| 5 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 6 | In the field he found his prayer book , protected from the pouring rain by a dove that sat upon it with wings outspread . |
| 7 | When Mr Bennet rang the doorbell he had his hands full of pieces of cardboard and balls of string and sticky tape and over one shoulder he carried a bright red blanket . |
| 8 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 9 | But in the last sentence of the story he has her say , ‘ The glory has departed from Israel , for the ark of God has been captured . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’ |
| 11 | We can only speculate on Wordsworth 's political beliefs before 1792 — in The Prelude he attributes his awakening to a French soldier , Beaupuy — ( see below ) . |
| 12 | When they reached the carriage he swung her luggage up onto the rack and said , ‘ We had a little whip-round ’ , and thrust seven one-pound-notes into her hand . |
| 13 | An adjoining report on the same page of the Sun as the video hypothesis , based on an interview with the mother of Fairley 's first wife under the headline HE MADE HER LIFE HELL , described how Fairley ‘ was violent towards [ his first wife ] physically and sexually . |
| 14 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 15 | In the dress rehearsal when she held out her finger for the ring he took her pulse . |
| 16 | On the terrace he took his decision . |
| 17 | Peering through the eye-slit he saw his wife , Mai , approaching , carrying the dishes from the supper table . |
| 18 | When she had left the bedroom he heard her feet scurrying for a few minutes , then the door slammed . |
| 19 | He strode angrily from the room , slamming the door behind him , and when he reached the bedroom he found his lamp already lit . |
| 20 | Before switching on the engine he studied his maps . |
| 21 | As soon as he got back to the hut he passed his grandparents a bowl of water each . |
| 22 | He did n't have a friend on Tahiti — except for the girl he played his love scene with . |
| 23 | He invited the AFPFL to submit names , but when they demanded the right to nominate a bloc of their own people to the council he rejected their terms and chose his own council from among superannuated pre-war politicians . |
| 24 | Then as Parratt left the pub he punched his fist through a pane of glass in the door . |
| 25 | In the hall he retrieved his greatcoat and cap , was sitting in the rear of the Mercedes when Berger joined him five minutes later . |
| 26 | Inside the hall he removed his cap and dropped his bag . |
| 27 | It 's alright in the winter he keeps your back warm . |
| 28 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 29 | The only exception was the C.O. He leaned his backside against a table , arms folded . |
| 30 | When Miss Thorne finished working on the scene he heard his companions sigh with relief . |