Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right . |
| 4 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 5 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 6 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 12 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He led her to a waiting taxi and , as he held the door for her , for a brief instant their eyes met . |
| 20 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 21 | Placing a hand on her shoulder , he led her to an ornate , gilded mirror hanging above the carved stone fireplace . |
| 22 | He did n't speak as he led her through a stone-floored hallway to a sweeping staircase . |
| 23 | He led her through the crowded flat to the kitchen and poured her a glass of wine . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | He led her at a good trot through the country lanes , by Bramfield and Tattle Hill , through Thieves Lane to Hertingfordbury . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As he led her towards the wood-and-thatch building by the roadside , Isabel contemplated another night in fitzAlan 's company . |
| 28 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 29 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |