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 | 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 . |
3 | He lowered himself into an old leather chair and continued chewing while he waited . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
10 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
11 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
15 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | He sold himself to a local pig farmer . |
18 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 |
24 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional . |
29 | George Hurst , the son of a curate , was born in 1800 and was apprenticed to a silk mercer at the age of 13 , at the end of which time he applied himself to an energetic programme of self-improvement and became a schoolteacher . |
30 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters . |