Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 2 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 3 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 4 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 5 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 6 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 7 | He led her through the crowded flat to the kitchen and poured her a glass of wine . |
| 8 | ‘ Pringle 's used to have a Directors ' Dining Room , with their own cook , ’ Wilcox explained as he led her through the drab corridors of the administration block , and out across a yard where fresh snow was already covering the footpath that had been cleared . |
| 9 | As he led her towards the wood-and-thatch building by the roadside , Isabel contemplated another night in fitzAlan 's company . |
| 10 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 11 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 12 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 13 | A porter opened the double-barred gate , shouting a welcome to the Santerres as he led us along the old causeway which wound past birch , oak and yew trees up to the front of the house . |
| 14 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 15 | Tugging her gently , he seated her on the low stone wall . |
| 16 | But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name . |
| 17 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 18 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 19 | " I 'm sorry , can I … " she motioned towards the door , and he helped her through the packed people , using his elbow to get them out of the way . |
| 20 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 21 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 22 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 23 | Lifting her with effortless strength to her feet , he cradled her against the hard strength of his own body . |
| 24 | He approached me across the marbled swirl of shag carpet , looking like a prelate pumped up with helium , and solemnly intoned , ‘ Now , lad , cup your hands , here comes the anti-chocolate . ’ |
| 25 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 26 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 27 | Then , before she realised what was happening , he fastened her in the double stirrups , binding her hands and feet . |
| 28 | Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out . |
| 29 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 30 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |