Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [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 | When Marek saw the headstone for the first time no one in the neighbourhood whom he asked knew anything about the man who had been buried there . |
| 4 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 5 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 6 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 7 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 10 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 11 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 12 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 13 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 16 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 17 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 18 | ANDY SINTON last night revealed he plans to quit QPR — just days after he helped steer them to the top of the Premier League . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 23 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 24 | He hastened to remove himself from the danger . |
| 25 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 26 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 27 | She stared at him and , as her eyes met his , once again , like the moment he 'd seen her in the pool , she seemed unable to look away . |
| 28 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 29 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 30 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |