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

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1 He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career .
2 Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on .
3 In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End .
4 His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby .
5 He lowered himself into an old leather chair and continued chewing while he waited .
6 After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair .
7 Beside a muddy pool in a shadow-dappled patch of jungle where faint feeding tracks had finally petered out , he lowered himself onto a fallen log .
8 He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge .
9 He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers .
10 Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun .
11 Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right .
12 ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs .
13 He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing .
14 He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door .
15 Brahe ‘ shows ’ Epstein his work — that is , he flies him around the 30-kilometer circumference of the accelerator which is buried deep underground , pinpointing the surface features and describing their relation to the features concealed below the surface .
16 However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose .
17 Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation .
18 The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian .
19 He sold himself to a local pig farmer .
20 Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 .
21 An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority .
22 After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser .
23 He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries .
24 The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million .
25 so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it
26 He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later .
27 Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake .
28 He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one .
29 It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP .
30 With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional .
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