Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 As she went upstairs she saw him toss something in a little glass down his throat in one gulp and she saw the swollen nicotine-stained fingers and the watery bad-tempered eyes .
2 Mr eleven year old son offered to help so one of the put a gun to him and forced him to lead them to him threatening him at the same time .
3 he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof .
4 But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
5 One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising .
6 ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about .
7 AN ARMED robber ‘ executed ’ a security guard because he recognised him as a former schoolmate , a court was told yesterday .
8 ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone .
9 ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so .
10 He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively .
11 He addressed her in the same way as he had her mistress , with the deference due to age .
12 He satisfied himself with a few words of hurried consultation during a House of Commons debate .
13 He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil .
14 Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past .
15 He took me to a few parties but I was uneasy about him .
16 You will ask yourself , ‘ If I listen to my best friend within and follow the precepts , will he lead me to the same holiness as those whose life was dedicated to the light ? ’
17 He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year .
18 It was for Couples , already top of the world rankings , his first major championship and he did it in the same accomplished manner that has already marked two earlier victories on the American tour .
19 As for the English speaking , a child of far more than three has no difficulty learning Italian and is so far from being wedded to the tongue he has begun with that he forgets it within a few months so do not say to me that is an obstacle .
20 He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman .
21 He quoted me in the same paragraph , but somehow omitted some key words about the commitment of both Novell and USL to preserving the business model by which USL serves its licensees .
22 Off the field , he conducted himself with the same composure and dignity as he did whenever he pulled on the white shirt of England or the claret and blue of West Ham .
23 And did n't he desert her in the same heartless way ?
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