Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He escorted me to his lodgings , where he treated me with every kindness , and dried my clothes whilst I managed a few hours sleep . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 6 | The human ape laid one skinny hand on my arm and hissed in my ear : ‘ So he sent you with a message , eh ? ’ |
| 7 | Eventually MacPhie found he could break the spell of the magic thread if he cut it with the woman 's magic hatchet . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | , whose organisation distributes many of our export products , highlighted opportunities facing the Company when he presented us with a commemorative certificate to mark the Chilton opening and to celebrate over 15 years of close co-operation . |
| 11 | Other women at the city council office where he worked hid when he chased them with a syringe filled with water , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 12 | Peter took the end of a candle from his pocket , and his hand was shaking when he lit it with a match . |
| 13 | Kurt Masur conducted one of the finest ‘ live ’ performances of this piece I have ever heard when he conducted it with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Nottingham during an English tour a few years ago . |
| 14 | He just leaned on me and when he caught me with a left hook I was given a standing count . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Connon , ’ he said as he busied himself with the kettle and the jar of instant coffee , ‘ I did n't really have a chance last night to explain myself to you very fully . |
| 16 | Guido sighed and seemed to relax a little , as he told her with a light smile , ‘ In fact , I 'm very pleased . |
| 17 | The moon and man stepped up to Le-eyo together , and the god became confused , saying ‘ Man , die and remain away ; moon , die and return ’ as he sprinkled them with the reversed charms . |
| 18 | Later , as he rode home in the cool night air , a vision of old Bert 's delighted face as he presented him with the larger fish invaded his mind 's eye , and filled him with contentment . |
| 19 | Luke Calder sat down on the settee , pulling Fran down next to him as he favoured her with a smile that would have made a lesser woman fall in a grateful little heap at his feet . |
| 20 | The heat haze rose from the ground as he flagellated himself with a cat o' nine chains . |
| 21 | Minton , though he rendered them with a Chinese delicacy , despaired at the sight of so many fir trees and did less sketching than was usual on his trips abroad . |
| 22 | His sister 's death seemed to have affected him more deeply , though he bore himself with a kind of frightened dignity in front of his father . |
| 23 | Oh , my word , she thought , as , though he favoured her with a fond look , the cool calculating gleam in Naylor 's eyes showed he was n't too impressed to have landed himself such a devoted fiancée . |