Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar . |
| 2 | She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind . |
| 3 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 4 | No sooner had she begun manufacturing a few defences than he demolished them with a flick of his finger . |
| 5 | The tired horse faced a journey of at least twenty miles across heavy country so he kept her at a sedate trot . |
| 6 | to have her hair done , she brings her boy friend with her and , another neighbour always drops in to have a chat with his wife on a Friday evening , she stops about an hour , then his son brings his girl friend , so he said its like a mad house |
| 7 | The intense processing involved obviously exhausted too much of Gav 's thinly-stretch grey matter to allow speech in the near future , so he contented himself with a grunt and submerged again . |
| 8 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 9 | The human ape laid one skinny hand on my arm and hissed in my ear : ‘ So he sent you with a message , eh ? ’ |
| 10 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 11 | Once he read something in a paper about Bella ; she seemed to have done rather well . |
| 12 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 13 | If he surpassed himself with a full-scale mock-up of the ceiling for the Salla Romana with a snake-pit of interwoven flowers and exuberant garlands , he could be sure that a cursory glance by Ceauşescu would be followed by the demand , ‘ More flowers , more gold leaf . ’ |
| 14 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 15 | He said this kindly , as if he meant it as a tip she could use on her next date — which obviously was not going to be with him . |
| 16 | Whereas if he raised it through a levy on Copts that would be wildly popular with everyone else . |
| 17 | He says he felt as if he knew her from a previous life — of course he did . |
| 18 | For , if he used her as a model , she used him as good copy . |
| 19 | Mrs Roberts advised her to mend her temper before her daddy came home , and asked what Parr would think if he caught her like a toddler in a tantrum . |
| 20 | But within twenty-four hours I told Ted that his only chance of carrying on as Leader was if he submitted himself to an early election through the 1922 Committee . |
| 21 | Moreover , apart from this defect , the election could not be regarded as complete until he had received his pallium from the pope , and he would be liable to deposition unless he received it within a year of his consecration . |
| 22 | He would work with Kate Miskin loyally and conscientiously because he respected her as a detective and that was what he was required to do . |
| 23 | Apollinaire had recently finished writing Le Bestiaire au Cortège d'Orphée and felt the name to be applicable to Delaunay 's work , partly because it was more lyrical and sensuous than the rather austere Cubism of the period , and also because he saw it as a form of ‘ peinture pure ’ which had analogies with music . |
| 24 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 25 | AN ARMED robber ‘ executed ’ a security guard because he recognised him as a former schoolmate , a court was told yesterday . |
| 26 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |
| 27 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
| 28 | Chanel 's legendary studio is now occupied by Lagerfeld and the same people from the photographic sitting with the addition of Gilles Dufour , Lagerfeld 's long-time right-hand man at Chanel , various Chanel employers such as Victoire de Castellane , in charge of accessories , and the British Kirsten Woodward who has made Lagerfeld 's hats since he discovered her on a lightning trawl through Hyper Hyper some years ago . |
| 29 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
| 30 | Mr Robert Cole , a CND vice-chairman , was jailed for 14 days at Blaenau Ffestiniog , Gwynned , for refusing to pay a £150 fine imposed after he chained himself to a container of nuclear waste last August .. |