Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some said he slept in his study while others believed he wandered about the corridors waiting to catch escaping pupils or those who had gone missing . |
| 2 | She burst out laughing at the absurdity of it , laughed until she cried , and when the tears came he groped across the table to touch her hand around the empty glass . |
| 3 | While he ate he looked through the post . |
| 4 | He claimed he fled to the United States to avoid being executed by the IRA . |
| 5 | When the doors opened he charged across the foyer , scattering people , and disappeared into Fleet Street . |
| 6 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 7 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 8 | Poor Prince was seriously hurt , and as she watched he fell to the ground . |
| 9 | Gascoigne went up to each player in the dressing-room before the kick-off , roughly shook him , and demanded he die for the club and the cause . |
| 10 | ‘ The first time we went he looked at the dog and showed no interest . |
| 11 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 12 | She did trust him and she knew he spoke from the heart . |
| 13 | Well then yo , you should have rung her up and said did he break in the caravan ? |
| 14 | ‘ What did he mean about the mill ? ’ |
| 15 | However , questions about the meaning of sentences , such as ’ Who did he mean by the woman he saw last night ? ’ can usually only be answered with reference to facts about the world , i.e. , the specific denotation . |
| 16 | Only in dealing with the events of 146 B.C. did he move towards the position of a cautious critic of Roman society and its methods of government . |
| 17 | Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis . |
| 18 | In vain did he protest to the shopkeeper that it was all a joke . |
| 19 | Enoch Powell was a Tory minister , but which party did he represent at the end of his career ? |
| 20 | Not only did he vote against the proposals but asked that his objections be publicly recognised . |
| 21 | Come on … when Chappy was nt scoring just what did he do for the team ? |
| 22 | What did he sit in the cold then ? |
| 23 | " Did he serve in the war ? " |
| 24 | What did he make of the threat from Black Africa ? |
| 25 | What improvement did he make in the world ? |
| 26 | Only then did he return to the newspaper . |
| 27 | And — the biggest question of all — did he care about the law ? |
| 28 | What did he think of the game ? |
| 29 | Did he think of the gesture a little too late ? |
| 30 | How did he cope during the custody cases ? |