Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 2 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 3 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 4 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 5 | She knew , from how he had said , " there is nothing wrong with a comfortable life , " that he felt none of the revulsion she did . |
| 6 | The story he told was precisely the story that Lanfranc had told in 1072 , with the single exception that he says nothing about the ultimum quasi robur of the whole case in the series of documents mentioned by Lanfranc . |
| 7 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
| 8 | His embarrassment about self-disclosure gives the impression , belied by his other books , that he knew nothing of the mystery that grace works by means of human weakness , not by side-stepping it . |
| 9 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 10 | Major insisted that he knew nothing of the BCCI fraud before June 28 , 1991 , when he was informed by the Bank of England . |
| 11 | Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs . |
| 12 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
| 13 | It was clear from Hans 's face that he knew nothing about the allegations . |
| 14 | hinting that he had plenty in the bank . |
| 15 | She spoke with the venom of thwarted passion , all too painfully aware that he spoke nothing but the truth . |
| 16 | To make him need her more than he needed anything in the whole of Chung Kuo . |
| 17 | The flat was mine , you see , but he 'd bought the furniture , so he took everything except the child 's cot . |
| 18 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 19 | And he thinks nothing of the travelling to and from training . |
| 20 | In Green 's Tourist 's New Guide 1819 , p.4. he says ‘ The writer was encouraged to the pursuit of painting by Mr. West , but why he knows not , his few sketches were humble , his mind untutored , and he knew none of the requisite theories , but geometry , perspective and architecture ’ . |
| 21 | He could not fault the appearance of the almost-finished uniform , and he understood nothing of the tailor 's craft . |
| 22 | ‘ You should know you 'll not change your father now and he means everything for the best for the whole house , ’ she argued forcibly but the strain was showing on her own drawn , anxious features . |
| 23 | So he put one in the living room and he put one in the kitchen . |
| 24 | Until he heard someone in the wood . |
| 25 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 26 | As the evening wore on , he asked Derek if he knew anything about the Ulster Defence Association or anybody in it . |
| 27 | " If he wanted something in the house and I did n't have it he 'd say , " What did you do with all the money ? " |
| 28 | Isaac proceeds as if he knows nothing of the events surrounding the pot of soup . |
| 29 | ‘ While you 're speaking to him , I suggest you ask him if he knows anyone in the building trade who would like to come out here to help you . |
| 30 | If he chucks something on the ground he 'll pick it up and give it to me and he 'll do it all the more . |