Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , some people say he died in the town , always trying to make a broom that would last ; others say he just gave up and wasted away , others that he got somebody else to make the brooms and found somebody to provide better twigs , and got people to sell the brooms in other towns and cities , and hired more people to make more brooms , and built a broom-making factory , and made lots of money and had a splendid house made … |
| 2 | The security men say he died in the crossfire of an encounter with militants who want Kashmir to be independent of India . |
| 3 | ‘ They say he escaped along the line , ’ someone announced , ‘ because he was covered in blood . ’ |
| 4 | People say he fell into the river . |
| 5 | They say he walked to the centre of the Sun Chamber , and that as he did so , the disguise fell from him , and everyone saw him for what he really was . |
| 6 | David Nicholson says he lived on the end of the racecourse for 22 years and his father lived there longer than that … for him Cheltenham is the best three days racing anywhere in the world and he loves it |
| 7 | I says , what th , he said , he said , well I 've I told the judge everybody 's got two jobs , he says he said to the judge , you 've got two jobs . |
| 8 | He says he knew from the start that they would spread conformity . |
| 9 | He says he laughed at the interviewer . |
| 10 | Everything else he had collected he abandoned in the street drain . |
| 11 | Police now reveal he called at the house shortly after that . |
| 12 | With powerful leg strokes he made for the assault boat from which new flares were being fired . |
| 13 | ‘ I figure he went over the fence here , ’ said Prentice when we were outside in the rain once more . |
| 14 | In this case the seller will not be in breach of the terms implied by section 12 provided that before the contract was made he disclosed to the buyer the existence of the lien . |
| 15 | She burst out laughing at the absurdity of it , laughed until she cried , and when the tears came he groped across the table to touch her hand around the empty glass . |
| 16 | While he ate he looked through the post . |
| 17 | He was a fairly good-looking young man and I do believe he came on the recommendation of Rhoda . |
| 18 | When the doors opened he charged across the foyer , scattering people , and disappeared into Fleet Street . |
| 19 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 20 | Everybody watched the other two , I ask him you know he went into the bus ? |
| 21 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 22 | ( Okland played as a pro in the Bundesliga and in France and as far as i remember he played in the team that beat England 2–1 at home in the 1981 chock-winner for Norway ) . |
| 23 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 24 | If he did n't like you , he 'd let you know it — just like he did with the drama teacher . |
| 25 | He is said to have signed a sworn statement saying he spied on the couple alone together — and has sold the story to a Sunday newspaper . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're not saying he came to the salon just for conversation ? ’ |
| 27 | To get a closer look at what I was doing he jumped onto the table , knocking eight woodscrews onto the floor . |
| 28 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 29 | This being refused he applied to the Board , and on 5 February 1992 the Board granted special leave . |
| 30 | ‘ It seems he fell in the kitchen . |