Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye . |
| 2 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
| 3 | Love reaching out to him took him by the heart and wrung him . |
| 4 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 5 | He escaped with the help of Bosnians , who gave him civilian clothes to replace his army uniform , and a network of ethnic Hungarians , dodging military police across the country until he made it over the border to Szeged . |
| 6 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 7 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 8 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 9 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 10 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 11 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 12 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 13 | He lowered her over the fountain until Robyn could see her own reflection in the water . |
| 14 | When the crackle of the flames , the creak of the floorboard , and the weight of their bodies returned , he lowered her to the carpet before the fire and sat himself beside her , leaning so that his face was only inches above hers . |
| 15 | With a groan he lowered her to the quilt and brought his head down . |
| 16 | Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost . |
| 17 | Pushing the coverlet aside , he laid her on the bed , and sat down beside her , studying her white face . |
| 18 | Then he laid her on the bed and feasted his eyes on her , slender and seductive , totally naked except for the glowing ruby that flashed fire whenever she moved her hand . |
| 19 | Lifting her with incredible ease , he laid her across the desk and prising her legs open , spread his half-naked body over hers . |
| 20 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 21 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
| 22 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 23 | He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely . |
| 24 | He laid it on the desk . |
| 25 | When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games . |
| 26 | He inserted it through the side of his skull and , finding that he was still alive though in some pain , drove to a nearby hospital , where he later died . |
| 27 | George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach . |
| 28 | Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck . |
| 29 | Then at a remote place on the bank of the River Swale he first sexually assaulted her and when she fought back he battered her about the head with a rock or rocks from the bank until he thought she was dead . ’ |
| 30 | Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette . |