Example sentences of "of he and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burton was so elated at his tough bargaining that he took a rare taxi back to Pelham Crescent , where he met his neighbour , Emlyn Williams , who winkled the details out of him and sent him back for £30 . |
| 2 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 3 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 4 | His mother came in , fell on her knees in front of him and pressed him to her ; She was gasping and shuddering . |
| 5 | There had been a steady diminution — since the operation — in his own interest in dentistry but she had tapped his experience out of him and collected it with care . |
| 6 | She came over and put her arms round him , knelt in front of him and buried her head in his shoulder . |
| 7 | She knelt in front of him and raised her crossed hands . |
| 8 | Their responses had short-lived effectiveness in that they grabbed hold of him and tugged him back to his ‘ work ’ while scolding him loudly . |
| 9 | Guido stretched his legs in front of him and crossed his canvas-shod feet at the ankles . |
| 10 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 11 | The Controller of the Silver Mines laid his arms on the table in front of him and clasped his hands together , sinking his head . |
| 12 | Dr Ali , suddenly submissive , moved quickly in front of him and opened it . |
| 13 | He looked down at the copious notes in front of him and cleared his throat again . |
| 14 | The stag fell on top of him and broke his neck ( European , 23 August 1991 ) . |
| 15 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 16 | Endill expected to bump into him again soon , but after several weeks had seen nothing of him and concluded he had finally found a way out . |
| 17 | Reaching out , he took two of the scented sticks from the porcelain jar in front of him and held them in the thread of laser light until they lit . |
| 18 | After a while she let go of him and buttoned his tunic . |