Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the murderer knew nothing about the ransom , and had followed Newley or met him by chance at the gazebo . |
| 2 | Balcha now had no alternative but to surrender to Ras Tafari who , with characteristic magnanimity , spared his life ; as to whether he ordered Balcha to enter a monastery or banished him to his estates in the Gurage country , accounts differ . |
| 3 | Claudia Arbuthnot was never cross with him or punished him for anything . |
| 4 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 5 | Or delivered him to a house in that vicinity ? |
| 6 | Again , if a dog-owner deliberately sets his dog on a peaceable citizen he is guilty of assault and battery in the ordinary way just as if he had flung a stone or hit him with a cudgel . |
| 7 | Despite the happy family photos that appeared in the fan magazines , childhood days were miserable days for Joe who said that his dad never held him in his lap and read him stories or took him to ball games . |
| 8 | When the counts of La Marche and Périgueux paid homage to the duke of Aquitaine , it implied acceptance on their part that to injure the duke 's person or property would be a breach of faith , but little more ; if they came to his court or assisted him on campaigns , it was because they saw profit or pleasure in so doing . |
| 9 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ I never struck him with my fists or kicked him in the face when I was in a standing position . ’ |
| 11 | They think he is a PERFUME … while others suspect they 've seen clothes he designed , or clocked him behind the wheel of a racing car . |
| 12 | Then swabbed the wash-basin clean guided Maxim downstairs and found their shoes and socks moving with a numb efficiency that abstracted him from the terrors of his imagination . |
| 13 | But Lewis 's fiction Till We Have Faces ( 1956 ) is the outcome of a private dream that haunted him for decades , based on the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche , though it outpaces at times his capacity to tell . |
| 14 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 15 | It was the same mentality that led him into the folie de grandeur of thinking that , having been a champion driver , he was also fitted to run a motor-racing team — indeed , to think that he was better fitted to do so than those for whom he had worked and driven . |
| 16 | It was not wickedness that led him into crime but a cheerfully impulsive nature and an almost complete lack of reasoning power . |
| 17 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 18 | He thought of Alan Millet … did n't know why , could n't place the trigger that led him to Alan Millet and a pub in the Elephant and Castle south of the Thames . |
| 19 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 20 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 21 | In referring once again to employee share ownership schemes , an idea that got him into trouble after the last election , he signalled that he still believed in the ‘ popular socialism ’ that he had advanced in those days as the answer to Thatcher 's ‘ popular capitalism ’ . |
| 22 | It was good skill and strength that got him around the center-half ( Wetherall I think ) and his near post shoy crept in via Beeny . |
| 23 | Kendall will come under increased pressure if he loses this fourth round replay and he is not prepared to keep faith with the players that failed him at Bramall Lane . |
| 24 | It was probably the affairs of the East India trade that propelled him into politics ; with the ‘ old ’ East India company still in existence , many members of the ‘ new ’ company sought election to Parliament to protect the company 's interests . |
| 25 | Dark , almond eyes that pierced him with their beauty . |
| 26 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 27 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 28 | He reiterated one of the problems that dogged him throughout life , which was fatigue ; for although he had on the whole a ‘ tough ’ constitution — at least he liked to think so — and tremendous will-power , he had driven himself very hard over the past twenty years . |
| 29 | He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world . |
| 30 | He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings . |