Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took her by back streets to Golden Lane , where he handed her over to Noakes , the mortuary attendant . |
| 2 | Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand . |
| 3 | It must have been then , in a final flush of family feeling , that he made everything over to Nigel . ’ |
| 4 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 5 | After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’ |
| 6 | Rufus had suggested to Adam that he sell something out of the house , a piece of china or some silver . |
| 7 | THE eavesdropping ex-bank manager who sold a tape of Princess Di 's lovey-dovey phone chat admitted yesterday that he did it out of greed . |
| 8 | I thought that Wilko giving him the number 2 shirt this season was a positive sign , but I 'm starting to think that he did it out of loyalty rather than in expectation of a comeback . |
| 9 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 10 | Mr Nikiforuk finds medical history funny , but not quite funny enough ; so he peps it up with his own very special kind of wince-making metaphors and similes . |
| 11 | ‘ Came in the morning 's post , but the postman could n't get it through your letter-box so he brought it round to me . ’ |
| 12 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 13 | He did n't score so he turned her over to me . ’ |
| 14 | The throng in front of Owen melted away , leaving his men exposed , so he drew them back into the shadows . |
| 15 | And he sends him back as a man . |
| 16 | erm only the Emir , and he has to give very erm strict reasons for it and he sends it back to the parliament to look into it again and when it comes back the second time the Emir can pass it . |
| 17 | That was we were using that white stuff , you know thirty , thirty six ? off his hand where it had all dried and he rolled it up in a ball and hit me in the face with it , that hurt . |
| 18 | And he followed it up by that shrewd observation ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ’ ( Mark 10:25 ) . |
| 19 | Just now the autumnal coolth was tonic and he breathed it in like drinking draughts of fresh milk , then took dippersful of water from the butt at the side of the house and sluiced his head into activity . |
| 20 | Maggie quietly told him all that Ana had said and he heard her through in silence . |
| 21 | He was very very tolerant with me and he brought me back into it without a lot of undue pressure and erm because transport was n't my life but I 'd sort of dedicated myself to it . |
| 22 | ‘ So they cried to the Lord in their trouble , and he brought them out of their distress . |
| 23 | Rodney went up and Siobhan reached Tamara down to him and he passed her on to me . |
| 24 | Robert 's own Christian name , as we know , had come from his maternal grandfather , Robert Hasted , and he passed it on to his second child , Robert Edward ; thereafter the same name would continue in that branch of the family until well into the 20th century . |
| 25 | He knew what they were thinking , and he sized them up in his very concise and perceptive manner . |
| 26 | And he hung it up outside his house |
| 27 | And he flung himself down on his bed , his hands over his ears . |
| 28 | A turbanned , one-legged beggar raised his bowl to him , and he knocked it out of his hands . |
| 29 | They were ready now , and he led them back to the Saloon . |
| 30 | The great dragon was angry but courteous , and he woke them up in as mannerly a way as he knew how . |