Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at the [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 3 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 4 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 5 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |
| 6 | He does n't really , I think at the moment he takes one and er he does n't sort of take them like |
| 7 | erm you know , that 's erm the sort of image , but , erm you know , I think at the moment he comes across as mister nice guy and erm I think that 's a very good quality if he 's got the substance , which I think he has , beneath that . |
| 8 | Was even she appalled at the prospect he was unfolding ? |
| 9 | Soon after she arrived at the caravan he had said : ‘ I 'm vegetarian but I do n't expect you to be , or Timmy . ’ |
| 10 | She glanced at the screwdriver he still held in his hand . |
| 11 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 12 | Mr Wormwood did n't notice anything when he put the hat on , but when he arrived at the garage he could n't get it off . |
| 13 | He nodded at the reply he heard , took off the headset and gave it to me . |
| 14 | He grins at the effect he has produced , and picks up more cheese crumbs on his finger . |
| 15 | Shortly after he started at the restaurant he told Wayne that he was moving to Mrs O'Neill 's boarding house on the corner of Main Street and Railway Avenue . |
| 16 | ‘ And what , might I ask , sir , was he doing at the time he was talking about the bell ? ’ |
| 17 | He thought at the time he was marrying the ‘ prefect woman ’ . |
| 18 | Lou never even looked , on Tuesday and Friday nights , any more than he looked at the instrument he played . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that in The Family Reunion he was attempting that re-integration of religious and secular drama which he discussed at the time he was working on the play . |
| 20 | As long as history is assumed to operate according to the protocols of a conventional logic , where a contradiction simply means you can not think it or do it as Hirst supposes , then it remains at the impasse he describes . |
| 21 | But having had his look at the outside Phar Lap returned to join the rest of the pack , and though he remained at the rear he was going very easily . |