Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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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 | 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 . |
5 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
8 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
9 | He lowered her over the fountain until Robyn could see her own reflection in the water . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | With a groan he lowered her to the quilt and brought his head down . |
13 | Pushing the coverlet aside , he laid her on the bed , and sat down beside her , studying her white face . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Lifting her with incredible ease , he laid her across the desk and prising her legs open , spread his half-naked body over hers . |
16 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
17 | He laid it on the desk . |
18 | He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely . |
19 | When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck . |
22 | George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach . |
23 | Then at a remote place on the bank of the River Swale he first sexually assaulted her and when she fought back he battered her about the head with a rock or rocks from the bank until he thought she was dead . ’ |
24 | Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette . |
25 | He collared her in the staff-room at eleven-thirty . |
26 | And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ? |
27 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
28 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
29 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
30 | He , he put all down and he , he pinned it on the back on the back door |