Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw 'im in the Observer wearing all that leather clobber and 'e looked like a man after me own heart , man . |
| 2 | 'E looked like an Italian but 'e did n't speak like they do . |
| 3 | ‘ 'E went into the bathroom , and I went . |
| 4 | It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’ |
| 5 | The man next to him winked in a fast act of conspiracy , a runner bean of a man who then extended his hand to Holly and their fists gripped in a distant greeting , but there were no words . |
| 6 | This time the children nearest to him slouched to a standstill , but the others continued moving and chattering . |
| 7 | Walking with him smacked of an intimacy she wanted to avoid , apart from which the sight of them together would prompt all sorts of speculation among the villagers . |
| 8 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 9 | In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months . |
| 10 | When Albert missed the child most urgently , the refusal of money for him seemed like a moral tactic to take him away forever . |
| 11 | Anselm had known Hugh as papal legate in France when he was abbot of Bec , but his close association with him came at a moment when he was in a very perplexing situation . |
| 12 | Beauty to him came from the soul , as we say , and he saw it as his task to exteriorise it in some way that harmonized with the subject matter . |
| 13 | President Fernando Collor de Mello resigned on Dec. 29 as impeachment proceedings against him began in the Senate . |
| 14 | The landlord of the inn which Ernest visited when his mother and his wife became too much for him knew of a coffee-house in the town which needed a kitchenmaid , and because he put in a good word for her , Ruth was given the job without references . |
| 15 | All the speculation about whether he can still motivate his players , and whether they would still play for him disappeared in a flurry of sharp-toothed tackles and gutsy running . |
| 16 | The balustrade beside him looked like the shelves of a hosiery shop : dozens of pairs of silk stockings hung from it or lay in piles on the flagstones beside the brass six-pounder . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | And that was how her love for him felt at the moment — as cheap and useless as a dollar . |
| 19 | From the corner of my eye I see Walter return and realise with a start that the person accompanying him enswathed in a black bournous is Marianne . |
| 20 | Multiple shadows of him fell on the perimeter wall , leaping like pale giants . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Goons to either side of him took in the air through their foreheads . |
| 23 | Instinct took control of him and the noise of the men behind him died to a whisper . |
| 24 | He jacked it up and watched as a station logo which meant nothing to him appeared on the screen . |
| 25 | ‘ You were a soldier , ’ I said , not as a question , but as a straight assertion of fact , for almost everything about him spoke of the military . |
| 26 | The letters appointing him spoke of the ‘ dissensions recently arisen ’ in the duchy of Aquitaine where he was to act ‘ to pacify the said land ’ ( circa stabilimentum terre predicte ) , thereby incurring additional expenses ( which were to be recom-pensed ) at the Paris parlement and in the duchy itself . |
| 27 | They 've used old tiles which of course helps — but the proportion , the way the thing 's built … ‘ by the old people of the old materials in the old unhurrying way' ’ but at the same time ‘ ‘ sweet to all modern uses ' ’ … and who do you think did this for her ? — a young chap called Lutyens , 27 he is — and I 've always heard him derided by the Schultz school as a ‘ ‘ society , , architect . |
| 28 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 29 | It moves from sketches he made as an eight-year-old , via his figurative and later surrealist paintings , to the simple forms and primary colours of his later work . |
| 30 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |