Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof .
2 But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
3 AN ARMED robber ‘ executed ’ a security guard because he recognised him as a former schoolmate , a court was told yesterday .
4 ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone .
5 ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so .
6 He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively .
7 He addressed her in the same way as he had her mistress , with the deference due to age .
8 He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil .
9 He took me to a few parties but I was uneasy about him .
10 He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year .
11 It was for Couples , already top of the world rankings , his first major championship and he did it in the same accomplished manner that has already marked two earlier victories on the American tour .
12 He quoted me in the same paragraph , but somehow omitted some key words about the commitment of both Novell and USL to preserving the business model by which USL serves its licensees .
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