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Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye .
2	The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick .
3	Love reaching out to him took him by the heart and wrung him .
4	I watched him put something in the captain 's hand .
5	He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green .
6	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 .
7	Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way .
8	She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top .
9	Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair .
10	‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’
11	He looked to belong to a different generation from that of Dysart and Ockleton , his face flushed and lined beneath a mane of grey hair , his chest heaving desperately as he lowered himself into the wheelchair .
12	Then he lowered himself into the driving seat , slowly and painfully , and pulled the door shut .
13	Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew .
14	He lowered himself in the saddle , then turned , looking back at her .
15	He lowered her over the fountain until Robyn could see her own reflection in the water .
16	When the crackle of the flames , the creak of the floorboard , and the weight of their bodies returned , he lowered her to the carpet before the fire and sat himself beside her , leaning so that his face was only inches above hers .
17	Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost .
18	With a groan he lowered her to the quilt and brought his head down .
19	He aligned himself with the workers , the rebels at the barricades , with Zola and Michelet and the students of 1848 .
20	He whispered something into the ear of my dishevelled companion , who produced a bundle wrapped in old copies of Pravda .
21	Pushing the coverlet aside , he laid her on the bed , and sat down beside her , studying her white face .
22	Then he laid her on the bed and feasted his eyes on her , slender and seductive , totally naked except for the glowing ruby that flashed fire whenever she moved her hand .
23	Lifting her with incredible ease , he laid her across the desk and prising her legs open , spread his half-naked body over hers .
24	Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top .
25	He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted .
26	He laid it on the desk .
27	He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely .
28	When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games .
29	Actually , thought Henry , as he checked himself in the mirror , no one , not even the police , would be stupid enough to imagine that Elinor could be the victim of a crime passionnel .
30	He inserted it through the side of his skull and , finding that he was still alive though in some pain , drove to a nearby hospital , where he later died .