Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to glare at him and made an effort to resist as he made to propel her into the passenger seat . |
| 2 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 3 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 4 | He agreed to marry her on the understanding that he could bow out if and when something better turned up . |
| 5 | Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa . |
| 6 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 7 | When Marek saw the headstone for the first time no one in the neighbourhood whom he asked knew anything about the man who had been buried there . |
| 8 | Scott made no secret of Leonard 's ambiguities regarding law , and he sought to ease him into a position nearer to his own , of both lawyer and poet . |
| 9 | For a bit , she tried to turn Yeats into a warrior , and he tried to turn her into a high priestess of the Celtic mysteries — and thus , of course , into a ‘ moderate ’ . |
| 10 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 11 | His tone was sharp , almost curt ; he tried to soften it with a smile . |
| 12 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |
| 13 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 14 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 15 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 16 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 17 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 18 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 19 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 20 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 21 | The whole puzzle became even more tantalising whenever he tried to fashion it into a poem . |
| 22 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 23 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 24 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 25 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 26 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 27 | He tried to discourage her in every way . |
| 28 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 29 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 30 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |