Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 2 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 3 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 4 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 5 | That he wrote it in the winter of 1940 – 41 gave an indication of the insecurity which underlay his apparent aloofness . |
| 6 | The fact that he rapes her on the night that Stella 's baby is born , on their bed , and in his wedding pyjamas makes Stanley seem even more bestial . |
| 7 | She shook herself inwardly , said severely , Control yourself , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; remember what happened when you had such soft thoughts about a man before , and the sudden dreadful memory this evoked hit her so hard that she stopped dead in her tracks , gave a stifled wail , and went so white that Dr Neil , hearing her , and looking at her , saw that her pallor was so extreme that he thought her on the verge of fainting . |
| 8 | Hari gestured that he follow her through the door into the small back yard and from there into the small workshop . |
| 9 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |
| 10 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 11 | It was not the case that he neglected domestic issues — least of all in the period 1963 – 65 — but rather that he saw them within the larger framework of France 's relations with the world . |
| 12 | But even if your romantic beau whispers ‘ I love you ’ daily in your shell-like , it does n't mean that he loves you in the way that you love him . |
| 13 | That is what the greenbelt is actually there for , and if you have it there for that purpose , as I said yesterday , the necessary corollary is that you have additional provision beyond it , and I ca n't resist to offer Mr Wincup some support , I 'm sure one piece of evidence that he gave you about the letter from the Parish Council , he 's probably already replied to that Parish Council saying , as you 're in the York greenbelt have no fear , all the Selby needs will pass straight across your heads and land somewhere else . |
| 14 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 15 | There is , it seems , a strong possibility that he abandoned her in the West and took their baby son over to the Russian zone . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I hope I shall always be Kingy to you , Miss Sally-Anne , ’ making it clear that he included her in the charmed circle of his friends . |
| 17 | In due course we might look closer at that episode with the Gilberd : she admits after much blushing and prevarication that he accused her in the High Street delicatessen of baby-snatching — did it openly , in a loud voice . |
| 18 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 19 | Though my son , that 's my eldest , in the Royal Navy , wrote that he has them in the Pacific . ’ |
| 20 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 21 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 22 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 23 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 24 | The court was told that the teenager held onto the girls hands to stop her struggling — she screamed for help , so he slapped her around the face . |
| 25 | He was mad with anger and jealousy , so he locked her in the tower , with only a spinning-wheel for company . |
| 26 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 27 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 28 | And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ? |
| 29 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Fortunately , one of her friends had done a first aid course so he put her in the recovery position and cleared her airways , then gave her the kiss of life . |