Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | pulling a different way , I used to pull it with my legs he pulls it with his back . |
| 2 | She struggled furiously , but it was little use , and at the top of the steps he set her on her feet . |
| 3 | After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango . |
| 4 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 5 | From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again . |
| 6 | The exp , he he showed his acceptance of her by lifting his blanket and so , covering her , a blanket at his feet he covered her with and in this little song was , cover me , extend the border . |
| 7 | A row erupted and when they reached Craylands he threw her to the ground and blasted her twice with a shotgun . |
| 8 | Even to him it was now barely imaginable , and other eagles he mentioned it to seemed to take it as a lie and untruth , and were angry at him for trying to delude them . |
| 9 | When he managed to unscrew the hinges he found none of them went anywhere . |
| 10 | And they never won nothing and they were made redundant last week and one of the chaps he did it on his own this week and won three hundred thousand . |
| 11 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 12 | When he tore off people 's buttons or sprinkled their trousers he did it in a spirit of the purest amity . |
| 13 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 14 | By the time he was three years old , he had the scabbiest knees in the nursery from all the scrapes he got himself into . |
| 15 | ‘ He looks better , it 's true , but some days he eats nothing at all , and other days he eats just like a healthy boy . |
| 16 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 17 | These days he has plenty of time to run the legs off his dog Quintus in nearby Richmond Park , just outside London , to indulge his hobby of stamp collecting and just to read novels , something that went by the board during his last few years at the Foreign Office , familiarly known as the FO . |
| 18 | One of the places he sent it to was Happy Towers in Edgbaston in Birmingham , which was a Mecca ballroom , and that was the first gig we did , complete with a revolving stage and everything . |
| 19 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 20 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 21 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 22 | To the assembled bishops he described himself as ‘ bishop of external things ’ — presumably external to the church . |
| 23 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |
| 24 | Tearing a piece of beef off the cut with his fingers he popped it in his mouth and swallowed greedily . |
| 25 | When he saw the cap badges he felt himself to be on home ground . |
| 26 | She ignored his appeals and began to move the cases He placed her under arrest . |
| 27 | At such meetings he kept himself in touch with the constantly changing scene of poetry , the new faces which appeared , the old names which disappeared . |
| 28 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 29 | And yet , although he was a scientific naturalist and although in frequent essays he reminds us of the insignificance and unimportance of man in the whole scheme of things , it 's plain that , from the beginning , and as I hope I shall be able to show you , right down to the end , he found something emotionally hard to bear , I was going to say , in fact , intolerable , in this situation . |
| 30 | I do n't mind how many times he rings you at the phone box . |