Example sentences of "he [coord] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to John and Marie , who finally married him and came to Baldersdale when she was twenty , Hannah played no part in the courtship rituals of Baldersdale . |
| 2 | The 14-year-old boy was walking the alsatian along a path between Park Avenue and Penparcau , Aberystwyth , Powys , when the attacker , who was aged about 20 , approached him and asked for money . |
| 3 | As Gerry and his fellow villagers talked of the better days to come , a carload of American tourists pulled up in the street beside him and asked for directions to ‘ Dannygal ’ . |
| 4 | Finding Bill on the far side of the room , she went up to him and asked without preamble , ‘ Where 's Faye ? ’ |
| 5 | There was a woman on the sofa beside Richard : as I watched , he pushed her down beside him and lay on top of her . |
| 6 | A woman came out behind him and looked from left to right . |
| 7 | He pushed the pad aside , drew the typewriter towards him and began to type again , squinting down at his friend s tiny handwriting . |
| 8 | Goldberg , pushing aside pad and pen , drew the little typewriter towards him and began to type again . |
| 9 | He laughed whenever she spoke to him and clung to Dotty Blundell for protection , whirling her away on his arm the moment rehearsals were over . |
| 10 | The last I heard of Ralph Horton was when Dave chucked him and went with Ken Pitt . ’ |
| 11 | It was Williams 's perceptive and remarkable schoolteacher , Sarah Grace Cooke , who met him and said to Emlyn , ‘ He 's like you : but he has the devil in him . |
| 12 | But to his dismay , she left him and fell in love with Peter . |
| 13 | He put his hand in his jacket pocket , searching for his wallet , and as he did , Doug , serious now , yanked Harry towards him and whispered in tones from which all traces of his cockney accent were now absent . |
| 14 | He closed the door behind him and smiled at Tolby . |
| 15 | The house chased Foo , caught him and collapsed on top of him , obliterating his nine-foot three-stringer Lundy . |
| 16 | It is exactly the same point as John makes by his assertion that ‘ the Spirit was not given by measure ’ to Jesus , but rested upon him and remained in fulfilment of the promises of the Old Testament ( 3:34 , 1:32,33 ) . |
| 17 | Stephen ignored him and turned to Christina . |
| 18 | She saw his face in everyone , went to sleep with thoughts of him in her mind , dreamed of him and awoke with tears on her cheeks . |
| 19 | Martin stopped a few feet before him and stood with legs planted firmly apart , said loud enough to be heard above the music , ‘ What are you drinking ? ’ |
| 20 | He said he was pleased about the help offered to him but stressed to sister that he regarded the need for help as temporary : " Until I 'm really back on my feet again " . |
| 21 | It was the first work on which he collaborated-and collaborated happily-with Nicholas Georgiadis but it is now given in the heavy scarlet , black and gold designs which Georgiadis substituted in 1980 . |