Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
2 | Then I asked of him concerning the suffering . |
3 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
4 | I am told by my Mother that I was a charming baby ; I used to he in the middle of the bed , kick my legs into the air and coo all day long . |
5 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
6 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
7 | I rushed with him into the buildings and found what I expected and dreaded ; a small calf kicking at its stomach , getting up and down , occasionally rolling on its straw bed . |
8 | One of them came to see me , and as I walked towards him across the table , he put on his glasses . |
9 | I walked towards him on the stony track |
10 | I worked with him in the theatre , through the good times and the bad times . |
11 | Mr Massey , who had joined the group in 1985 and ended up as group finance director , recalls the early stages : ‘ When Anthony Jacobs mentioned selling , I talked to him about the possibility of an MBO . |
12 | When he emerged I saw behind him at the door a small , black-haired , middle-aged Japanese woman in a red kimono . |
13 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
14 | I looked at him over the roof . |
15 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
16 | Well , he fired a pistol and someone went for him with the blade of a scythe . ’ |
17 | Until I was seventeen , only occasionally and briefly meeting him , I thought of him as the rather alarming head of the family . |
18 | I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell . |
19 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
20 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
21 | With some trepidation I went with him with the trusty Seagull Outboard chugging manfully over the huge swell . |
22 | I went with him to the glass door and stopped . |
23 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
24 | ‘ Because I spoke to him on the phone and he sounds a tough customer . |
25 | I spoke to him on the telephone . ’ |
26 | ‘ No , I spoke to him on the phone . |
27 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
28 | ‘ I spoke to him on the phone to complain about him putting my name in an article . |
29 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
30 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |