Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him infrequently on the subway journey to and from work . |
| 2 | When the fellow returned I entertained him here in the manor house . |
| 3 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 4 | I found him here on the floor with his neck broken . |
| 5 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 6 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
| 7 | He finished packing up his newsletters and I followed him upstairs into the bar . |
| 8 | I worked him quietly through the autumn , teaching him how to work in the correct outline , maintaining his balance and an even rein contact , progressing to transitions , turns , serpentines and learning about length bend , rhythm and total obedience . |
| 9 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
| 10 | I did not know if he was going to attack me or not , but I hit him hard with the side of my sword . |
| 11 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 12 | ‘ I watched him much of the time , Inspector , ’ said Auguste , an anxious sheepdog watching Alfred 's eyes glaze over . |
| 13 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 14 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 15 | I saw him once at the beginning of this month . |
| 16 | I looked him square in the face . |
| 17 | I looked him straight in the eye . |
| 18 | Then , at last , I looked him straight in the eyes . |
| 19 | I looked him straight in the eye . |
| 20 | I kept him away from the old man . |
| 21 | I sent him right in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | His hands were everywhere , so I kicked him hard in the ankle and told him exactly where to go . |
| 23 | He went for the machine-gun , but someone kicked him hard in the back of the head . |
| 24 | I tugged him gently along the walkway , which was made of planks , I discovered , with short mooring posts sticking up at intervals , needing me to lift his legs over one at a time . |
| 25 | The back condition which troubled him sorely during the club 's invaluable spring tour of Zimbabwe , returned with a vengeance and he was obliged to miss some cricket while under constant treatment . |
| 26 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |
| 27 | The sight which greeted him now in the tiger house was a pitiful one . |
| 28 | She led him stealthily up the path Rodomonte had taken to the summit . |
| 29 | She prodded him fiercely in the buttocks with the tip of her brolly , accusing him of disloyalty . |
| 30 | She caught him again on the way back between oven and table , and sank herself into him once more , but after a moment became conscious that he was having to make a considerable effort to hold the hot saucepan away from her at arm 's length . |