Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 2 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 3 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 4 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 5 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 6 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 7 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 8 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 9 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 10 | Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake . |
| 11 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 12 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 13 | He led her to a tiny table in one corner , and she resolutely ignored the fact that nearly everyone else — the place was surprisingly crowded — wore slinky and fashionable black . |
| 14 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
| 15 | He led her to a waiting taxi and , as he held the door for her , for a brief instant their eyes met . |
| 16 | Placing a hand on her shoulder , he led her to an ornate , gilded mirror hanging above the carved stone fireplace . |
| 17 | He did n't speak as he led her through a stone-floored hallway to a sweeping staircase . |
| 18 | He led her at a good trot through the country lanes , by Bramfield and Tattle Hill , through Thieves Lane to Hertingfordbury . |
| 19 | He led her into a large room where a floor-to-ceiling window gave out on a garden dominated by a fountain and a single curving oak , its tracery of branches lavish against the steel grey sky . |
| 20 | He led me to a long , low building . |
| 21 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
| 22 | He led me to a large , upright scallop of rock . |
| 23 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 24 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 25 | He led them down a small corridor , paused by a door , took out a huge bunch of keys , slowly , and deliberately , unlocked the door , and then , with a dramatic , indeed melodramatic , flourish , flung it open . |
| 26 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 27 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 28 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 29 | He led us up a steep track until we were 1,000 feet above the long Lochranza inlet . |
| 30 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |