Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 2 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 3 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 4 | Then suddenly he thrust his head between his owner 's legs and hoisted him into the trough with a resounding splash ! |
| 5 | But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek . |
| 6 | Selkirk stood , looked down at Corbett and patted him on the head . |
| 7 | I struck out feebly in self-defence and hit him across the chest , which increased his rage . |
| 8 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 9 | On Dec. 4 Kaunda dismissed his Defence Minister , Lt. Gen. Hannaniah Lungu and replaced him with the former Deputy Defence Minister , Dodson Siatalimi . |
| 10 | ‘ He went to put his hand inside his jacket , then another passenger jumped out of his seat and threw him through the doors . |
| 11 | She threw her arms round his neck and kissed him on the lips , enveloping him in discreetly expensive perfume . |
| 12 | He grabbed Rodomonte by the scruff of the neck and pushed him towards the light , holding his nose inches away from the crackling fluorescence . |
| 13 | He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door . |
| 14 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
| 15 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 16 | They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road . |
| 17 | I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head . |
| 18 | Mr Kendall , you came through the hole , found Mr Goodhaven and brought him to the surface . |
| 19 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 20 | But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home . |
| 21 | Alan wrapped one of his cot blankets round his shoulders and took him to the kitchen to make a drink . |
| 22 | She laid her hands on Peter 's shoulders and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 23 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 24 | Lucie slipped the scarlet waistcoat off Gabriel 's shoulders and skinned him of the white silk shirt . |
| 25 | Juliet smiled at Donna and followed him from the room . |
| 26 | One day his inquisitors would take Master Learmouth and put him to the question . |
| 27 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 28 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 29 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 30 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |