Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [pron] [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 Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club .
4 ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men .
5 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 .
6 He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness .
7 Immediately he threw himself into the organization of a monster Albert Hall rally to welcome the Revolution .
8 To make him need her more than he needed anything in the whole of Chung Kuo .
9 The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He was mad with anger and jealousy , so he locked her in the tower , with only a spinning-wheel for company .
14 Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational .
15 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 ?
16 The flat was mine , you see , but he 'd bought the furniture , so he took everything except the child 's cot .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 But he thought something more normal might pay dividends , something that was more within the boy 's everyday range of experience , so he sat himself behind the headmaster 's desk and cultivated an air of briskness .
22 Best of all , his work would take on a new virility once he rooted himself in the earth and responded to what he called its ‘ music ’ , experiencing its moods as ‘ symphonic , dramatic ’ .
23 Once he said it to the answering service .
24 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 .
25 Until he heard someone in the wood .
26 He was glad to let the subject drop and they drove in silence until he left her at the gate of Martyr 's Cottage .
27 The Lady 's last opponent shifted his seat until he faced her across the board .
28 Practice partner Jack Nicklaus also had an ignominious start , and even Norman himself had contemplated whether he might sue the Royal & Ancient if he injured himself in the dune grass .
29 Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet .
30 If he left you in the lurch when you needed him most . ’
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