Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | David McPherson had deceived John O'Donnell , 25 , into going to Argyll with him then delivered him into the hands of several other men . |
| 2 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 3 | Strolling with his owner through a field littered with pebbles and stones , he suddenly spotted one in the crowd that really took his fancy . |
| 4 | He suddenly seized her under the armpits and swung her round and round , until she was breathless . |
| 5 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 6 | To her astonishment , he suddenly prodded her in the ribs . |
| 7 | He wrongly combined it with the Judah figure , so producing : |
| 8 | I had a marvellous ride all the way round and he just took me into the lead . |
| 9 | He just pinched it from the Services Liaison Officer 's files in Soltau . |
| 10 | He was pulling him , trying to get him off me — he threw him — he just threw him at the bed — I knew he was all right , he were screaming but I could n't — they were both screaming , Cathy and Gary both , and he got me by the throat . |
| 11 | No problem though for Tony he just hit it to the other side . |
| 12 | There he generously offered it to the Magistrate , who was busy carrying cartridges to the firing-step . |
| 13 | When he finally got her on the phone , she only asked him how he was then said she had to rush , and put the receiver down before he had time to tell her . |
| 14 | ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer . |
| 15 | When he finally wheeled himself into the Politburo meeting , all the others had arrived . |
| 16 | And he generally worked it during the hours of daylight , when he could be seen and people could liaise with him . |
| 17 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 18 | ( His blood-pressure must have risen dangerously if he ever met anyone of the name of Hambly who also drank sherry ) . |
| 19 | Perhaps he still identified himself with the man who bought a duffel cloak for Alice Fell ( see Critical Survey , p. 118 ) ; he instructed his daughter to buy the child a doll — ‘ only let it be a good big one ’ . |
| 20 | In fact the car turned out to be a souped-up grease-wagon piloted by an ageing rocker eager to prove he still had it in the nuts . |
| 21 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 22 | He still held himself with the easy confidence she remembered , his dark head carried at an unconsciously arrogant angle , and he still had that polish to him , the patina of success . |
| 23 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 24 | He always stored it behind the pipe and when Uncle Philip found it , he would throw it out onto the landing and jump up and down on it . |
| 25 | And so he always laid himself on the line . |
| 26 | Then a long-shot from behind Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder as he forced open the dining-room door , saw the scene of Tick advancing menacingly on his beloved ( or ‘ that silly bitch ’ , as he always called her off the set ) , raised his pistol , cried , ‘ No , you monster ’ and shot the deformed coachman . |
| 27 | He always presented himself as the redeemed bad boy , but it was a lie , she says . |
| 28 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 29 | Baldwin inclined to the earlier date , mainly because he always sustained himself throughout the wearisomeness of the political year by looking forward to a relaxed August and September . |
| 30 | However , he said he always included something above the understanding of his hearers in order to prevent them becoming either complacent or conceited and to stimulate their desire to learn more . |