Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 2 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 3 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 4 | After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango . |
| 5 | Although it meant a detour he drove them through the Bois du Boulogne . |
| 6 | A row erupted and when they reached Craylands he threw her to the ground and blasted her twice with a shotgun . |
| 7 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 8 | After the rape he dragged her to an alley but she broke free . |
| 9 | All he could see of the lifeboat was her searchlight beam , and with that as his only reference he guided her to the scene . |
| 10 | One moment he loved them like a brother , then he 'd turn away and never want to speak fondly to them again . |
| 11 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
| 12 | When he tore off people 's buttons or sprinkled their trousers he did it in a spirit of the purest amity . |
| 13 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 14 | If Professor Benson here were to make a very brief precis of the lecture he gave us in the wardroom this evening it might give them something more to think about . ’ |
| 15 | At our last meeting he presented me with a pair of small Tibetan scrolls . |
| 16 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 17 | But to Dustin 's credit he recognised it as a role in which he could immediately dissociate himself from the whole ‘ image ’ concept of acting , as well as prove that , ‘ I was a character actor , not just this nebbish kid that Nichols found . |
| 18 | He went to see her that day he took you to the airport . |
| 19 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 20 | In the event he took her round the Baia Sardinia , a stretch of dancing turquoise water nestling in the embrace of a tumbling rugged coast . |
| 21 | When the Lord made Sunday he meant it for a day of rest , a day of peace and quiet after the turmoil of the working week . |
| 22 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 23 | By chance he landed me for a swim at Moutsa down there . |
| 24 | The next morning he took us to the place where the evil Sir Hugo died . |
| 25 | In obvious anger he dismissed her with a wave . |
| 26 | His gaze swept lazily over her , making her squirm , then with one swift movement he caught her by the wrist , pulling her so abruptly towards him that she stumbled , caught off balance . |
| 27 | In that state he gave it to the boy who set off on his half-mile walk . |
| 28 | When I saw Dr Wardle he booked me into the Princess Grace Hospital the following Wednesday . |
| 29 | His body was hairy , muscled , well-shaped , and when I saw him strip for bed he reminded me of a gorilla about to pounce upon its prey . |
| 30 | Without a word he brought it to the table beside her bed and put it carefully down . |