Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [prep] [art] [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 | When he arrived he settled into a studio in the Wall Street area and immediately began taking its narrow streets and their bustling crowds of people as his subject matter . |
| 8 | At the end of the week she discovered he worked for an average of 1 minute at a time . |
| 9 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 10 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Poor Prince was seriously hurt , and as she watched he fell to the ground . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I gathered he fell from a window whilst drunk . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The first time we went he looked at the dog and showed no interest . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She did trust him and she knew he spoke from the heart . |
| 18 | I thought he died in a car accident . ’ |
| 19 | Most people thought he looked like a tramp with his habit of tying his trousers up with string , but the first thing that all the dancers noticed was that he had big , flat feet . |
| 20 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 21 | When Zbo interrupted he flew into a rage at the violation . |
| 22 | Well then yo , you should have rung her up and said did he break in the caravan ? |
| 23 | ‘ What did he mean about the mill ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In vain did he protest to the shopkeeper that it was all a joke . |
| 28 | Enoch Powell was a Tory minister , but which party did he represent at the end of his career ? |
| 29 | Not only did he vote against the proposals but asked that his objections be publicly recognised . |
| 30 | Did he stay in a caravan ? |