Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] he in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 2 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 3 | Mark turned , just as the dogs took off together in a huge leap which struck him in the chest , knocking him backwards into the boot where he sat , legs dangling , with both arms wrapped around the excited dogs . |
| 4 | As he walked down the stairs it was the old lady who met him in the hall . |
| 5 | If the truth be told , it was Norman 's putter which kept him in the hunt down the stretch . |
| 6 | ARMY veteran Tom Clarkson had a special date yesterday with part of a bomb which hit him in the head during World War Two . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final . |
| 8 | Next day I shot him in the arm during our fight , thought that was the end of the whole thing , and left France . |
| 9 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |
| 10 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 11 | He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway . |
| 12 | With a shrill yelp she nipped him in the hind leg and he shot away in alarm . |
| 13 | However , if Europeans were exasperated with Carter , many had little liking either for the man who beat him in the November presidential elections . |
| 14 | On the first day he announced his new sponsorship deal with Everest — a return to the firm who supported him in the 70's when he rode for the Edgar yard . |
| 15 | Quite clearly he was torn between his desire to excuse himself from further cross-examination and his obedience to the protocol which kept him in the presence of a member of the Royal Family until he was dismissed . |
| 16 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 17 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 18 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 19 | I lifted the receiver and listened and it must have been the expression on my face which stopped him in the doorway . |