Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew roughly where he was , or he knew in theory , and he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction , sometimes holding onto the trunk of a birch tree . |
| 2 | Or he stepped on a landmine of some sort . ’ |
| 3 | Satan lies to his followers and has convinced us too of his mighty strength and even starts to believe in his own lies when he claims he was ‘ self-begot ’ , caused by Fate , or he sprang from the ground or willed himself into existence , an absurd contradiction in terms . |
| 4 | I saw 'im in the Observer wearing all that leather clobber and 'e looked like a man after me own heart , man . |
| 5 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 6 | There was water at the bottom covered by a thin skin of ice and he splashed into it face first . |
| 7 | Bicker seemed deep in thought and he splashed through puddles without seeing them . |
| 8 | The cameraman then came on board and we left the quay ; we returned and he transferred to a motor boat to film us leaving the quay . |
| 9 | She died in 1909 and he married in 1910 Lorina Elizabeth , widow of A. Shield , a member of the Stock Exchange . |
| 10 | He was leaving behind the other children , the only friends he had , and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world . |
| 11 | She dropped the camera from her face as the lens filled with his anger , and he receded to a safe distance from her ; but he was still bearing down , yelling , ‘ What the fuck is going on ? |
| 12 | He knew the fakers and the fences in Paris as well as London , and he skimmed through them , without any hope of success . |
| 13 | John 's was Wuthering Heights and he cheated by doing ‘ withering ’ . |
| 14 | He calculated that 10,000 women lost their lives annually due to this rite and he campaigned with many others for it to be banned . |
| 15 | He came rapidly to the conclusion that blood-letting , enemas and emetics weakened the already ill patients and could in no way help towards a cure , and he campaigned against such practices for most of his life . |
| 16 | Now Will brought down an old van er which was scrap it was quite a good body I mean and he painted on it , We 're still open , er something like , Despite Transport and General Workers ' Union picketing we are fully open , and he plonked this van with no wheels on it just the body right th in the entrance of th on his own ground naturally er right in front of the pickets which was like you know tantalizing . |
| 17 | Calcavecchia , who defends the Open Championship here next summer , had never seen St Andrews before and he improved with every round . |
| 18 | A loud knocking on the wicket-gate made Jack start and he muttered to himself as he left the office and walked across the cobbled yard . |
| 19 | But once I asked him why he was in prison , and he muttered about his days at Le Coq d'Or tavern in Paris and said he was a prisoner because he could ‘ count the days ’ . ’ |
| 20 | His mouth left her lips and he muttered in her ear , ‘ He 's coming … ’ |
| 21 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 22 | The mud churned and erupted as bullets struck the ground , and he rolled to his left , lay sprawled on his stomach , and pumped fire into the running shape of the man who had nearly killed him … |
| 23 | Then she felt the coverlet being pulled off the bed and João was on top of her and his sweet breath was in her face and his mouth over her mouth ; he was forcing her legs apart until she thought she would split ; he was trying to lift them right up over his shoulders , and at the same time trying to enter where she was impossibly small , cursing at his lack of success and finally grunting and gasping , until she felt a little damp fountain on her belly and he rolled off the bed and pattered quickly from the room . |
| 24 | His ‘ conversion ’ came early in life and he taught in the Sunday School of a local chapel . |
| 25 | There were a few places where he 'd disturbed dust , and he blew on them hard to blur the marks and redistribute the deposit . |
| 26 | His eyes were wild , and he blew on a hunting horn . |
| 27 | Pasternak was apparently impressed ; far lesser actors than Nicholson would eventually become began their careers by similar bravado , and he arranged for him to be tested . |
| 28 | His eyes opened in alarm , but before he could say anything his concentration lapsed and he dropped like a stone , vanishing behind the far end of the table . |
| 29 | And he dropped in a twenty seven inch Sony this morning . |
| 30 | ‘ How many more of you are- ’ he broke off with a stifled gasp as a hand clutched the skin exposed at the side of his neck by his wide and unbuttoned collar , and he folded to the ground . |