Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was held open for him , and he threaded his way through all the backstage equipment . |
| 2 | The fitful moonlight was bright enough to see by , so he did n't bother to use his torch as he threaded his way forward through the trees . |
| 3 | His movements were slow and deliberate as he threaded his fingers through the tangled strands , his eyes on his task , and Hilary forgot to breathe altogether , almost terrified by his touch . |
| 4 | When she just kept on looking at him he threaded his hands in her hair and let it drift through his fingers , watching the deep red glow in the lights . |
| 5 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 6 | When God made the plants that are on this Earth , first He made their stalks and leaves . |
| 7 | In the event , he made me captive there , and closed impenetrable bars about himself . |
| 8 | HIS hands shook as he made me coffee . |
| 9 | But he made her laugh and worked like hell for peanuts . |
| 10 | He made her laugh at those dinner parties and other gatherings where they had been together . |
| 11 | He made her work twice as hard as the others . |
| 12 | An adjoining report on the same page of the Sun as the video hypothesis , based on an interview with the mother of Fairley 's first wife under the headline HE MADE HER LIFE HELL , described how Fairley ‘ was violent towards [ his first wife ] physically and sexually . |
| 13 | It was clear that he made her life happier than it had been , but she still had to put up with the desperately uncomfortable conditions and go out on her terrifying foraging expeditions . |
| 14 | He made her stand holding up her skirt , and to her delight applied cold cream to her ravished posterior . |
| 15 | When she became engrossed in some new work he made her preoccupation an excuse for drawing away from her . |
| 16 | Sitting there , stroking her , the ball of his thumb soothing over and over but never so long in one place that he made her hand sore , he let his voice caress her into sleep whose dream-depths crushed her in peacock and navy . |
| 17 | He made her walk to and fro . |
| 18 | Strangely then , at the thought of the heartless female he made her sound , Leith felt an almost overwhelming compulsion to tell him the truth . |
| 19 | He made her tea and sat holding her hand until the light faded and the lamps in the street were lit , shedding a faint light into the room . |
| 20 | He learnt all the signs and conventions , very quickly , not only because he made himself student to so many tutors , but because he watched so carefully everything that each one did , with that strange , silent , exhausting attention of his . |
| 21 | As Holy Roman Emperor , Rudolf II was the most important crowned head in Europe ; as king of Bohemia he made his capital , Prague , a Mecca for the cream of northern artists , scholars , and philosophers . |
| 22 | The Belgian Art Nouveau designer and architect , Henry van de Velde ( 1863–1957 ) , is being celebrated by a exhibition with the sub-title ‘ A European artist of his time ’ , which is touring most of the cities where he made his mark . |
| 23 | To choose one of many examples , I can point to the case of Nottingham-born Herol Graham , whose parents came from Jamaica and gave him no support in his sporting endeavours , at first in sprinting and then in boxing where he made his mark as a light-middleweight . |
| 24 | It was as a policeman that he made his mark . |
| 25 | At Streatham and Liverpool in November he made his mark , observed by the Fascist apologist A. K. Chesterton ( cousin of G. K. Chesterton ) who recorded in his own life of Mosley that it was William Joyce who was the ‘ brilliant writer , speaker , and exponent of policy … addressed hundreds of meetings , always at his best , always revealing the iron spirit of Fascism in his refusal to be intimidated by violent opposition . ’ |
| 26 | As a poet , he made his mark first in 1712 with the publication of Nereides : Or , Sea-Eclogues , Callipædia and Dryades . |
| 27 | The young striker was on the pitch for just five minutes before he made his mark . |
| 28 | He made his candidate , Salabat Jang , Nizam of Hyderabad , and he also helped Chanda Sahib to become Nawab of the Carnatic , the region which lay inland from Madras . |
| 29 | He made his headmaster admit that military training was not ( strictly speaking ) compulsory , armed himself with a letter from his father , and won the contest of wills . |
| 30 | Each Section of thirty men would construct an elaborate ‘ creche ’ or crib , and at midnight the results would be judged by the Colonel of the regiment as he made his rounds . |