Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 2 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 3 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 4 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 5 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 6 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 7 | The court was told that the teenager held onto the girls hands to stop her struggling — she screamed for help , so he slapped her around the face . |
| 8 | He was mad with anger and jealousy , so he locked her in the tower , with only a spinning-wheel for company . |
| 9 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 10 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 11 | And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ? |
| 12 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Fortunately , one of her friends had done a first aid course so he put her in the recovery position and cleared her airways , then gave her the kiss of life . |
| 14 | Committees are a waste of time , so he deletes them from the diary . |
| 15 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 16 | His room key and tag feel bulky in his pocket so he leaves them on the table with his newspaper before visiting the well assorted buffet table . |
| 17 | But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early . |
| 18 | Once he said it to the answering service . |
| 19 | He escaped with the help of Bosnians , who gave him civilian clothes to replace his army uniform , and a network of ethnic Hungarians , dodging military police across the country until he made it over the border to Szeged . |
| 20 | He was glad to let the subject drop and they drove in silence until he left her at the gate of Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 21 | The Lady 's last opponent shifted his seat until he faced her across the board . |
| 22 | a shop-assistant has possession of money paid to him by a customer until he puts it in the till . |
| 23 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
| 24 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 25 | If he left you in the lurch when you needed him most . ’ |
| 26 | Not if he arranged it at the most awkward time of the year ? a little voice rejoined . |
| 27 | If he treats her from the beginning like a woman , elderly perhaps , but still entitled to every courtesy and consideration and some of his undivided attention , and if she treats him with affection and interest , voicing her pride in his achievements , and turning to him for advice on various matters , their relationship is usually off to a good start . |
| 28 | Mr Gergen will best serve his new boss if he reminds him of the strengths of one of his old ones . |
| 29 | The scene of crime officer kept looking at him , as if he found him in the way but did not know how to say so . |
| 30 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |