Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper . |
2 | He tapped her on the shoulder-Excuse me — and when she turned he took her by the wrist and round the waist , holding her close , whisking her on to the floor . |
3 | When Paullus saw at Olympia the gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Pheidias , he declared he felt himself in the presence of a god . |
4 | Then one day Mr Flowerdew he went out and bought a horse , a rather special horse ; and when he wanted it shod he sent it to the blacksmith shop at Scole , Mr Woodcock 's . |
5 | He claimed he associated himself with an abnormality that characterised the outstanding personalities of history , such as Confucius , Jesus Christ , Julius Caesar and Hitler . |
6 | Laming claimed he knew nothing about the drugs ring and said Black put up £10,000 towards development of the stun gun . |
7 | Cressy had been moored at Tardebigge for four years while Rolt undertook various forms of engineering war-work , but when peace returned he threw himself into the task of preserving the canal system . |
8 | steps up and right footed he blasts it into the bottom corner , it subdues the Shrewsbury crowd somewhat , Blackburn fans are rampant because at last there 's some light for them but they 're still trailing Shrewsbury by three goals to two . |
9 | In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee . |
10 | Zeno ran a coin across his knuckles , this way and that , a tiny acrobat , then flipped it ; as it fell he clapped it to the back of his hand . |
11 | But she knew he had her at a complete disadvantage , and he knew it , too . |
12 | ‘ Well — yes , I knew he married her after the war , ’ said Greg diplomatically . |
13 | I 'd caught him once or twice patting her bottom which the silly girl probably took as evidence of her superior attractions , whereas I knew he did it to every woman under forty . |
14 | Thought he said something about the suspension . |
15 | did he tell him about the hole in the wing then ? |
16 | Did he make it to a tree too ? ’ |
17 | Did he treat you as an equal ? ’ |
18 | Did he intend everyone in the castle to know he did not want the wife he had married in such a hurry ? |
19 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
20 | " Did he leave you on the boat ? " |
21 | Did he take her for a fool ? |
22 | Some people might ask , if George loved Lennie that much , why did he shoot him in the end . |
23 | Did he put them in the microwave ? |
24 | Did he put it in the toothpaste tube ? ’ |
25 | He held his last press conference in 1955 , but no more than in 1946 did he resign himself to a permanent retirement . |
26 | Did he help you with the gardening ? |
27 | Or did he see it as a force for change ? |
28 | Yeah Carrie went and as she , as she left he patted her on the bum which is , you know , a bit friendly and I said to Jess well look , put it this way , cos she 's really , she flirts a lot |
29 | On neither occasion could he say why he had done what he did , nor had he done it in the company of other pupils he wanted to impress . |
30 | Had he viewed her as an exciting and unusual lay , and believed that she would n't let him screw her without a hard-luck , my wife-doesn't-understand-me line to spin ? |