Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 3 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 4 | Pushing his briefcase aside , he lowered himself into a chair , rested his elbow on the back , and crossed one leg over the other . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 7 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 8 | He plays him like a harp . |
| 9 | He plays it with a plectrum . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , Charlie made it really simple for me , there were two guys at the back who could n't stand up and he laid it on a plate for me . |
| 11 | Folding it up carefully , he laid it across a chair . |
| 12 | He ravished her like a lion , thrusting into her , his lips drawing out her life . |
| 13 | He checked it with a shake of his head . |
| 14 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 15 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 16 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 17 | Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’ |
| 18 | And he attacked it with a relish and enthusiasm which surprised even himself . |
| 19 | He plunged it into a dish of lavender essence and was astonished how quickly the burn healed . |
| 20 | Typical James , thought Cameron , as he handed back the flask and looked at his friend 's flushed face : we are plotting to save our lives and he turns it into a holiday . |
| 21 | He turns it into a hotel and falls in love with a local French lass . |
| 22 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
| 23 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 24 | He sold himself to a local pig farmer . |
| 25 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 26 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 27 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 28 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 29 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 30 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |