Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |
| 2 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 3 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 4 | Samuel Whitfield Daukes was his name , and what a very fine job he made of this rambling Gothic house of flint with its stone dressings , its ‘ Tudor ’ windows with their mullions and transomes , and its jolly carved bargeboards . |
| 5 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 6 | Douglas Young reports from the Berlin Film Festival on several exciting discoveries he made among this year 's entries ( and some he wishes he had n't ) |
| 7 | He pounced on that instantly . |
| 8 | And when they turned homeward , to tell their grandfather what they had seen and heard , the king of the vookodlaks scurried away to a muddy , murky , bushy part of the wood where he lived with all his tribe of ugly , dark , hairy , spiteful , brawling goblins . |
| 9 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 10 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 11 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 12 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |
| 13 | He lived for another four years while his empire lapsed into chaos . |
| 14 | Perhaps as a result , he lived in some poverty for a time in old age , though he was eventually rescued by his friends . |
| 15 | With equal ease and sympathy he penetrated into that maze of Roman rules , conventions and unexpected reactions in which many other Hellenistic politicians lost their way . |
| 16 | The former Millwall star , now a writer and broadcaster , stunned the packed audience at a football evening at Waterstone 's Bookshop in London 's Charing Cross Road as he laid into more of the game 's major figures . |
| 17 | Although he succeeded in that task he was surprisingly replaced in mid-summer 1982 by Alan Mullery . |
| 18 | Again , by exercising his powers of persuasion and sticking to his guns , Pearce 's view prevailed and he succeeded in both aims . |
| 19 | This concentration on christology is of the very essence of Barth 's method , but the greatness of his theological achievement lies not simply in the method and form of the whole , but in the way in which he succeeded by this means in re-integrating and casting quite fresh light on all the great leading themes of classical orthodox belief . |
| 20 | Leith was still gasping at his audacity as well as at his discernment when , flicking a glance at the way her chestnut hair was fastened in a repressive knot , he inserted with another glance at her severe hairstyle , ‘ Now why would a beautiful woman , with equally beautiful hair , try to hide her beauty behind glasses which she clearly does n't need , try to minimise the beauty of her splendid hair , and also try to detract attention from what I clearly recall is a figure of delightful shape and proportions ? ’ |
| 21 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 22 | He cared about this . |
| 23 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 24 | But he reneged on that promise and said he would wait for a message from God . |
| 25 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 26 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 27 | That 's why he agreed to this article on the hacienda . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Which is why it 's so super that he agreed to this interview , ’ she quickly covered her slip . |
| 29 | ‘ I know the feeling , ’ he agreed with that fascinating little indent beside his mouth as he returned with her case . |
| 30 | He agreed with that proposition and stated : The reason is that the third party recipient may be subject to some additional and conflicting duty which does not affect the primary confidant or may not be subject to some special duty which does effect that confidant . |