Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 2 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 3 | The following afternoon he invited her round for another meal . |
| 4 | His main role with the consultants was to open a new Scottish regional office in Edinburgh and from there he built them up into one of the largest transportation consultants in Scotland . |
| 5 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 6 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 7 | But he turned her around with one swift jerk and forced her to face him . |
| 8 | He coaxed it along with flawless control of line and colour as it was developed with equal measures of logic and charm . |
| 9 | Then he hosed him down with warm water until all traces of the beck had been removed . |
| 10 | And he followed it up by that shrewd observation ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ’ ( Mark 10:25 ) . |
| 11 | He followed it up by further personal diplomacy , this time with Russia . |
| 12 | He knocked it back in one gulp . |
| 13 | He knocked it back in one and gasped with the pleasure of it . |
| 14 | Feeling hurt and bewildered , she looked away , then squealed in alarm as he swung her up into strong arms . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's too beautiful a day for you to go on Mr Gajduseking me the whole while , ’ he cut her off in easy fashion . |
| 16 | Until he cut it down in later years , his run-up was extremely long — and his saunter back to his mark extremely slow — but the speed that it generated undoubtedly justified the length , and the grace of it all was an aesthetic delight . |
| 17 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 18 | Casabona admitted he forced a woman lodger in the house to go to a bedroom where he tied her up with adhesive tape . |
| 19 | I nearly fell over , he pulled me up with such a |
| 20 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 21 | Picking her up as if she were a doll , he placed her on to unsteady feet . |
| 22 | He clued me in to some strategy . |
| 23 | He rang me up at nine o'clock . |
| 24 | She was relieved , for the sake of the parish , when he rang her up in 1940 to say that he was leaving . |
| 25 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 26 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 27 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 28 | Now , in a moment of crisis , he took it in with startling clarity . |
| 29 | He did n't ; instead , he sorted them out in two weeks flat . |
| 30 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |