Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made himself the centre for information during the Red Raids that followed , brutal nights when civil liberties were swept aside . |
| 2 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |
| 3 | Pointing to the right fork , he passed her the stick . |
| 4 | He passed her the document and she read it , fast the first time , slowly the second . |
| 5 | He passed her the can . |
| 6 | He passed her the TARDIS key from his pocket . |
| 7 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 8 | He passed her the phone . |
| 9 | He passed me the receiver , saying unnecessarily , ‘ It 's Ronnie Curzon . ’ |
| 10 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 11 | Wexford brought his beer and as he passed them the man got up as if to take his leave . |
| 12 | Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks . |
| 13 | He sold me the caravan . |
| 14 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 15 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 16 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 17 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 18 | He got her the Hon. Charles Grindlewood , unfortunately . |
| 19 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 20 | As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic . |
| 21 | ‘ The first time Jimmy Patino , who represented family interests on the board , came to a meeting , he read me the riot act about how of every £1 I was talking about , 51p was owned by the family , and of that 51p , 25p of it was his . |
| 22 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 23 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 24 | Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm . |
| 25 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |
| 26 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 27 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 28 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 29 | I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words |
| 30 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |