Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head .
2 People say I kicked him in the head but there is no way I would do that . ’
3 Say she enticed him into the woods and became demanding in every way and heavily emotional , piling on pressure .
4 Say you lost him in the crowd .
5 ‘ Several people who were present say he was n't , and a cabby says he delivered him to the Post on Friday afternoon .
6 Anyone know who marked him for the 3–3 draw at Leeds ?
7 I suppose she saw him as an escape . ’
8 Just as the dance was finishing she drew him towards the door .
9 The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick .
10 ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’
11 I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us .
12 She always had half an eye for him ; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger .
13 A cashier thought she recognized him as the man who had done it .
14 Their life was one for which she was very unfitted , and her gigantic effort to enjoy it struck him as a piece of self-deception .
15 But now she suddenly realised it fitted him like a glove .
16 I think I saw him on a bicycle . ’
17 I thought you said you saw him at the bus station this morning .
18 A senior detective said : ‘ The married woman said she met him on a plane .
19 ‘ She was a married woman , who said she met him on a plane , ’ a senior detective told TODAY .
20 It was one of his most fertile periods — he was n't a great letter-writer — too polite — he said she understood him in the letter I — I — saw — he said — ’
21 Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me .
22 Willis was much more cheerful and said it reminded him of a boarding house in the old days . "
23 And a Romanian woman in London swears she saw him in the street as he dived into a taxi .
24 When Neil refused they punched him in the face and dragged him to shops two miles away .
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