Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 2 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 3 | ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’ |
| 4 | Azhag fought the Troll , and eventually chased it back to its lair where he slew it after a bloody struggle . |
| 5 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 6 | The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar . |
| 7 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 8 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 9 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 10 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 11 | She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind . |
| 12 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 13 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 14 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 15 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 16 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 17 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 18 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 19 | Immediately he threw himself into the organization of a monster Albert Hall rally to welcome the Revolution . |
| 20 | That he wrote it in the winter of 1940 – 41 gave an indication of the insecurity which underlay his apparent aloofness . |
| 21 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 22 | Mr Sanchez recalls that on one occasion , Mr Keith Richards , a musician once fond of exotic medication , was so vexed by his hound Caesar 's nocturnal barking that he administered him with a soporific known colloquially as a ‘ mandie ’ . |
| 23 | The fact that he rapes her on the night that Stella 's baby is born , on their bed , and in his wedding pyjamas makes Stanley seem even more bestial . |
| 24 | She shook herself inwardly , said severely , Control yourself , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; remember what happened when you had such soft thoughts about a man before , and the sudden dreadful memory this evoked hit her so hard that she stopped dead in her tracks , gave a stifled wail , and went so white that Dr Neil , hearing her , and looking at her , saw that her pallor was so extreme that he thought her on the verge of fainting . |
| 25 | Hari gestured that he follow her through the door into the small back yard and from there into the small workshop . |
| 26 | Chelmsford Crown Court heard that he blasted her with a sawn-off shotgun in the street in front of their two young children . |
| 27 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 28 | She knew , from how he had said , " there is nothing wrong with a comfortable life , " that he felt none of the revulsion she did . |
| 29 | In Division One he was subjected to a lot of dubious physical challenge and then , as Palace managers came and went , Vince 's role was constantly changing , so that he became something of an enigma to Palace fans who would one week marvel at his sinuous skills and near-perfect control but then despair at his virtual anonymity the next . |
| 30 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |