Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | And a bit of me wanted him to stop the way you want an actor in a film to stop . |
2 | When one of them married he gave the impression of feeling betrayed . |
3 | To illustrate the way many of them operated he cited the case of a widow who in 1894 borrowed £50 from a London loan bank on the security of her furniture which was valued at £250 . |
4 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
5 | Len Vickery finished third after carding a score of 68a round which helped him secure the past captain 's cup . |
6 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |