Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 3 | Placing a hand on her shoulder , he led her to an ornate , gilded mirror hanging above the carved stone fireplace . |
| 4 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 5 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 6 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 7 | He stopped her with an impatient gesture . |
| 8 | ‘ You may perhaps gain the kingdom of heaven by your prayers , ’ he told him in an unkind moment , ‘ but never the kingdom of Great Britain . ’ |
| 9 | He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 11 | He likened it to an intermediate era between the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. and the re-birth of classicism in the Renaissance ideals of the fifteenth century . |
| 12 | By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park . |
| 13 | He followed her with an easy stride , blocked her escape , looming very tall and dark above her . |
| 14 | Somewhere on another plane of existence she knew that he was pacing himself , tuning himself to her slower needs : that his tiny muted cries of painful frustration were evidence of his consideration as he aroused her to an aching , trembling plateau of desire . |
| 15 | They coughed their way through All Things Bright and Beautiful , and when they came to the bit about ‘ God made them high and lowly , and ordered their estate , ’ he waved them to an unceremonious halt and plunged into his sermon : |
| 16 | He established it as an alternative power base in Hebron as his mayoral leadership came under increasing challenge from secular nationalists . |
| 17 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 18 | He treated her like an incompetent subaltern . |
| 19 | He saw it as an economic drain and realised its damaging effect on Moscow 's international relations . |
| 20 | Back inside the house he gathered them into an oversized bunch and headed for the kitchen , leaving a trail of fallen petals in his wake . |
| 21 | He put her in an open boat , with no oars , at the mouth of the River Aberlessie which , the chronicle says , was called ‘ The Mouth of Stench ’ because of the thousands of rotting fish cast on the sands . |
| 22 | Whatever Massim 's cousin Sunil did for a living , he did it from an old-fashioned headmaster 's desk and a small personal computer . |
| 23 | He promoted her to an unattainable pedestal , a figure swathed in deep purple , a princess . |
| 24 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 25 | An artist friend once remarked : ‘ I saw this chap make something out of an ordinary piece of wood — he fashioned it into an exquisite work of art . ’ |
| 26 | He ushered her into an overheated wood-panelled lobby . |
| 27 | He said it with an odd , teasing leer , as though he were asking for something very difficult , and when the boy spoke he sounded awkward , his voice high and polite . |
| 28 | After that he greeted her like an old friend each morning ; she did n't mind , it was dull talking to Magnus who seldom listened , and he gave her protection from the intense political views of the Afghan 's owner . |
| 29 | He pushed him into an upright chair . |