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

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1 Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived .
2 He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to .
3 No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him .
4 He insisted we join him for dinner where he regaled us with tidbits of gossip from the court and city .
5 I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to .
6 I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election .
7 By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use .
8 ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’
9 Azhag fought the Troll , and eventually chased it back to its lair where he slew it after a bloody struggle .
10 Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin .
11 Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity .
12 He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner .
13 The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar .
14 He would no sooner place his arm where he wanted it to be than his upper body was wracked by a spasm .
15 There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false .
16 He took me in his arms and carried me downstairs to the library , where he put me in front of the fire , and gave me a glass of wine .
17 Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs .
18 On learning of this , Achym pursued his steward for three miles to Bury Down , where he did him to death at a place known as Slew Gate .
19 Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club .
20 Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut .
21 He used to go to a lotta places er that as knocked down or , well I could n't tell you the kind of job , but often there was some locks on the premises was er , perhaps needed repair or he wanted them to be in before he could leave the job and say here you are , that 's the job done .
22 The motorist is driving too fast because he does n't expect any children , or he expects them to be careful ’
23 I took notice of him 'cause he knew everything about football as well as boxing .
24 Although he accepted it with trepidation .
25 Although he accepted it with trepidation .
26 John Nutting , prosecuting , said that although he said nothing to detectives after his arrest , with a lock knife in his hand , they later found a chilling message daubed on his police cell wall .
27 She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind .
28 ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men .
29 Although he endeared himself to Arsenal 's North bank and played impressively enough on the outskirts of the box to sustain his reputation for skilful adventure , he rarely found the net at Highbury and began to look like over-paid hype to the footballing public .
30 Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years .
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