Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made him turn to face her from the bottom of the steps . |
| 2 | She turned to glare at him and made an effort to resist as he made to propel her into the passenger seat . |
| 3 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 4 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 5 | He agreed to marry her on the understanding that he could bow out if and when something better turned up . |
| 6 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 7 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 8 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 9 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 10 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 11 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 12 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 13 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 14 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 15 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 16 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 17 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 18 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 19 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 20 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 21 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 22 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 23 | Trying to drive yours up , spread on the table , not on the carpet , cos you he has to move everything on the carpet it 's not so slippy . |
| 24 | As an agriculturist he has to take him in the garden for practical training . |
| 25 | but it , he needs to find out what he needs to teach you through the book so you know |
| 26 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 27 | I promised to see that Constanza would get to Brussels on time , and he promised to take me behind the scenes of the art world . |
| 28 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 29 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 30 | He wants to draw us into the vortex of non-personhood that he has become , and the nothingness or non-being that he is becoming . |