Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 2 | As though his feet were programmed he found himself at the Incident Room . |
| 3 | Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper . |
| 4 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 5 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 6 | The tale of Simon the Athenian appears in Samuel Sharp 's History of Stamford of 1847 , where he says he found it in a ‘ quaint old black-letter record ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Several people who were present say he was n't , and a cabby says he delivered him to the Post on Friday afternoon . |
| 8 | When it was done he ordered her into the sleeping-bag . |
| 9 | He 'd managed to walk out of a locked ward at the Fairmile psychiatric hospital , and it 's thought he threw himself under an express train . |
| 10 | He tapped her on the shoulder-Excuse me — and when she turned he took her by the wrist and round the waist , holding her close , whisking her on to the floor . |
| 11 | When Paullus saw at Olympia the gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Pheidias , he declared he felt himself in the presence of a god . |
| 12 | Then one day Mr Flowerdew he went out and bought a horse , a rather special horse ; and when he wanted it shod he sent it to the blacksmith shop at Scole , Mr Woodcock 's . |
| 13 | He claimed he associated himself with an abnormality that characterised the outstanding personalities of history , such as Confucius , Jesus Christ , Julius Caesar and Hitler . |
| 14 | Laming claimed he knew nothing about the drugs ring and said Black put up £10,000 towards development of the stun gun . |
| 15 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 16 | Before she could move he had her by the shoulders , his furious eyes blazing down at her . |
| 17 | Cressy had been moored at Tardebigge for four years while Rolt undertook various forms of engineering war-work , but when peace returned he threw himself into the task of preserving the canal system . |
| 18 | Sec secondly we must welcome Paul to the meeting , as you know he joined us at the beginning of January to run the neighbourhood watch schemes and as office manager I thought it appropriate he attend the management meetings . |
| 19 | In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee . |
| 20 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 21 | Zeno ran a coin across his knuckles , this way and that , a tiny acrobat , then flipped it ; as it fell he clapped it to the back of his hand . |
| 22 | like that , and he said it was ever so funny , he took fifty up there because , I bet he told you about the money betting and all that and he 's said he bet fifty pound , he thought christ he said , I was bloody lucky he said I , I had the , I said well David . |
| 23 | Tell you what I bet he had it under the blankets reading his books . |
| 24 | But she knew he had her at a complete disadvantage , and he knew it , too . |
| 25 | ‘ Well — yes , I knew he married her after the war , ’ said Greg diplomatically . |
| 26 | I 'd caught him once or twice patting her bottom which the silly girl probably took as evidence of her superior attractions , whereas I knew he did it to every woman under forty . |
| 27 | Thought he said something about the suspension . |
| 28 | My lady and gentleman took him out that night and he drank a lot of fizzy stuff and fell over — I 'm black and I do n't think he saw me in the darkness . |
| 29 | While others were being lionised he conducted himself like a lamb or even a mouse . |
| 30 | Before she could answer he grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her against him , his fingers biting cruelly into her skin . |