Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to glare at him and made an effort to resist as he made to propel her into the passenger seat . |
| 2 | He agreed to marry her on the understanding that he could bow out if and when something better turned up . |
| 3 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 4 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 5 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 6 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 7 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 8 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 9 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 10 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 11 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 12 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 13 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 14 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 15 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 16 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 17 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 18 | I promised to see that Constanza would get to Brussels on time , and he promised to take me behind the scenes of the art world . |
| 19 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 20 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 21 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 22 | He hastened to remove himself from the danger . |
| 23 | Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern . |
| 24 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 25 | He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’ |
| 26 | It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions . |
| 27 | ‘ He came to tell us about the arrangements , it was n't very well organised |
| 28 | Typical of Geoff 's talent was the opening goal he scored to set us on the way to a Wembley victory over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in April 1991 , cleaving his way though The Toffees ' defence to head home from a corner and , perhaps partly because of Palace 's and Geoff 's success at Wembley , he was awarded his first full International cap when England travelled to Turkey for the European Nations Championship tie on May Day 1991 . |
| 29 | Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking . |
| 30 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |