Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brunel , in fact , was advised by Gainsborough executives that continued attendance at the society 's screenings would damage the reputation of the films , such as The Vortex and Blighty , that he made for them . |
| 2 | He made for it , then , slam ! |
| 3 | He made for it , taking a short cut through the carpark adjoining a few prefabricated sheds that called themselves the Hawkwood Industrial Estate . |
| 4 | Deriding the value of the committee of the regions , he tried to demolish Mr Salmond 's case for entering the Government lobby in exchange for SNP representation on the European committee , by repeating the comments he made on it when he was the party 's foreign affairs spokesman : ‘ I remember saying , with the approval of my leader , that it is merely an advisory body , advising another advisory body and has no powers of any kind . ’ |
| 5 | Ash would almost certainly have read them , but I 've no recollection of any precise use he made of them … ’ |
| 6 | His method is to record what happens , over the course of sixty years of the narrator 's life , to the large group of people that he meets and meets again during this period ; what they made of themselves and what he made of them . |
| 7 | Whenever he saw her he would ask her to explain the Bible to him , and in the drawing he made of her , he wrote the Hebrew version of her name , Chana , daughter of Rafael , in Hebrew characters across the top of the head . |
| 8 | The entire future of the family and the farm fell on his shoulders , and what a wonderful job he made of it . |
| 9 | ‘ Clean old job he made of it , straight out of the drill book ! ’ |
| 10 | But he remembered how the others had watched , not interfering , waiting to see what he made of it , as Peter and Andrew were now . |
| 11 | Then amuse yourself in the long autumn evenings , ’ said Thorfinn , ‘ working out what bargain he made with them before he came north . |
| 12 | ‘ Then there 's nothing more for either of us to say , ’ she accepted dully , turning away from him and then halting as the edge of her vision caught the movement he made towards her . |
| 13 | I tuned , intending to ask the English boy why he lived with me , why he liked my company . |
| 14 | No , no , no , no he lived with her and she , she was |
| 15 | He lived with her ! |
| 16 | ‘ He lived with you ? ’ |
| 17 | He lived for it . |
| 18 | I we live in then , then up to Wellington , but he lived in you know and er |
| 19 | It is characteristic of him that he transmitted to us a document which gave the number of the soldiers in the Roman army about 225 B.C. and added the number of the men of military age but not under arms : the document distinguished between Roman citizens and allies , and gave specific figures for the main groups of allies ( 2.23–4 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Get her off — it hurts ! ’ he whispered at me , not daring to move or make too much noise . |
| 21 | He whispered to him . |
| 22 | He whispered to her , but she did not move . |
| 23 | ‘ Lock the sacristy , please , ’ he whispered to her . |
| 24 | ‘ Slowly , boy , ’ he whispered to me . |
| 25 | And , whatever the visual indications in the Sussex match , he whispered to me — marginally out of the skipper 's hearing — that he felt his natural skill was to spin the ball rather than flight . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think my plan will ever succeed , Ellen ! ’ he whispered to me . |
| 27 | " Mackerel , Ron ! " he whispered to me on the bridge . |
| 28 | Well he whispered to me last night , you know , then of course Laura told me everything cos she was there |
| 29 | " The Bugis you can not trust a lot , " he whispered to us . |
| 30 | " Hey , " he whispered after me , " you look smashing . " |