Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't think of a good reason why not so I ushered him towards the stairs and told him I lived in Flat 3 . |
| 2 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 3 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 4 | So she hit him on the face to make him prick his ears ! |
| 5 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 6 | Gently she shook him by the shoulder , and his eyes opened . |
| 7 | Together we assisted him into the taxi . |
| 8 | So they put him in the kitchens . |
| 9 | So he walked him round the beat until the sergeant found him . |
| 10 | So he tapped him on the shoulder and Dad being a big chap with big chest just said er S Do you know my lad ? |
| 11 | Finally he grabbed him by the collar , and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal . |
| 12 | Deliberately she looked him in the eye as she said it . |
| 13 | Numbly she followed him from the dance floor , barely even noticing when some of the dancers called out to her in passing . |
| 14 | For once they had him by the balls . |
| 15 | Now I took him into my home , it was an extremely costly thing to do , and eventually we got him into the Chiltern Clinic . |
| 16 | Later I heard him in the bathroom . ’ |
| 17 | Five minutes later she joined him in the Biography alcove . |
| 18 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 19 | ‘ A couple of weeks later they dragged him off the ice in North Harbour . ‘ |
| 20 | Clearly they heard him in the Cornerways flats and in Sea House and in the Dasses ' house and in the lounges of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 21 | Well we had him for the weekend and er looking back on the weekend we were reasonably impressed with the man and his wife . |
| 22 | I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses . |
| 23 | And then I lost him among the boulders and small trees that marked the course of the torrent . |
| 24 | Sometimes I joined him in the school room . |
| 25 | ’ I just get guys saying , ’ Hey man , I love that film where you bit that guys neck and then you shot him in the head and his brains went spilling all over your face . |
| 26 | And then you dragged him to the altar , or was it the registrar ? — I 've never had an account of the joyful occasion — and then you came back up here , and-you thought you 'd be Queen of Oswaldston , with your little private income , and your nice stone house , and your upper-class ways . ’ |
| 27 | His T-shirt followed , and his briefs , then she pushed him towards the bed and stripped off her jeans and sweatshirt . |
| 28 | Then she lit him up the stairs , and went before him into the panelled solar , where Rhodri rose from a tall chair by the fire to receive him . |
| 29 | Leaning across she kissed him on the cheek . |
| 30 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |