Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] he [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 2 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 4 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 5 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 6 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 7 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 8 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 9 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 10 | Almost inaudible in the crush , he thanked everyone who 'd helped him in the case . |
| 11 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 12 | And he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenged him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 13 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 14 | I 'd known him from the start of punk . |
| 15 | He could n't help wondering if he 'd interrupted him in the act of copulation . |
| 16 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 17 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 18 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 19 | Vernon was arrested for leading an armed attack on the then Branch Davidian leader one George who 'd thrown him off the property . |
| 20 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 21 | They 'd kept him in a kiosk on Brighton front day and night waiting for the Germans to invade . |
| 22 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 23 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 24 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 25 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 26 | But he swore at a spectator who had provoked him during a game against Essex at Ilford and again on Sunday when he was racially abused on returning to the pavilion after scoring a half century which helped Middlesex clinch the Sunday League crown . |
| 27 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 28 | In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies . |
| 29 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 30 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |