Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 2 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 3 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 4 | He escaped with the help of Bosnians , who gave him civilian clothes to replace his army uniform , and a network of ethnic Hungarians , dodging military police across the country until he made it over the border to Szeged . |
| 5 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 6 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 7 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 8 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 9 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 10 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 11 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 12 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 13 | Pushing his briefcase aside , he lowered himself into a chair , rested his elbow on the back , and crossed one leg over the other . |
| 14 | He lowered himself into an old leather chair and continued chewing while he waited . |
| 15 | After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair . |
| 16 | He looked to belong to a different generation from that of Dysart and Ockleton , his face flushed and lined beneath a mane of grey hair , his chest heaving desperately as he lowered himself into the wheelchair . |
| 17 | Then he lowered himself into the driving seat , slowly and painfully , and pulled the door shut . |
| 18 | Beside a muddy pool in a shadow-dappled patch of jungle where faint feeding tracks had finally petered out , he lowered himself onto a fallen log . |
| 19 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 20 | He lowered himself in the saddle , then turned , looking back at her . |
| 21 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 22 | He lowered her over the fountain until Robyn could see her own reflection in the water . |
| 23 | When the crackle of the flames , the creak of the floorboard , and the weight of their bodies returned , he lowered her to the carpet before the fire and sat himself beside her , leaning so that his face was only inches above hers . |
| 24 | With a groan he lowered her to the quilt and brought his head down . |
| 25 | Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost . |
| 26 | He aligned himself with the workers , the rebels at the barricades , with Zola and Michelet and the students of 1848 . |
| 27 | He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers . |
| 28 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 29 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 30 | He plays him like a harp . |