Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 2 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 3 | He passed her on the stairs . |
| 4 | When he sold them around the pubs and to neighbours that evening , the money would subsidise his meagre pension . |
| 5 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
| 7 | Gradually , he led her through the centuries to later years , years that brought about the attempt to overthrow the Faith by the English under Henry , and of the increasingly repressive measures that had been taken by the Lord Deputies under Elizabeth in the last fifteen years . |
| 8 | And so saying , he led me over the fields to his childhood home . |
| 9 | And he led me towards the hills |
| 10 | He led us past the remains of the Young Eea , a copse of blackened and dead trees , planted some 150 years ago , but drowned when the land was inundated with water . |
| 11 | He got it from the boys instead . |
| 12 | He helped me with the goats and with the work in the cornfields , and soon we were good friends . |
| 13 | She cried out as he caught her by the shoulders . |
| 14 | He grasped her by the shoulders , his fingers biting in , through the thinness of her top . |
| 15 | He approached me in the Limes Club in Sheffield and said if I signed with him , he would fill my book and raise my fee — a promise which he fulfilled . |
| 16 | The fisherman was so shocked that he let the body slip back into the water and , though he reported it to the police , no action was taken by them . |
| 17 | Yeah , he played it in the Witches |
| 18 | Only Ember cared enough to come and talk to her ; from what he told her of the others , both the towered and the plain , she was glad . |
| 19 | He told her about the fairies who lived in the holes on the river bank , and how Billy was half leprechaun . |
| 20 | When he told her about the children at Dovercourt she and a friend went along to help in teaching English . |
| 21 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 22 | He bundled her down the stairs and set off through the rain at a cracking pace . |
| 23 | He drove it around the grounds of his father 's Herts home . |
| 24 | Finally , he showed me off the premises with the injunction , accompanied by a theatrical wink , that I should get straight on to him if I ever had any bother . |
| 25 | He poured it into the glasses and handed her one with a mocking little bow that nearly made Hilary throw the liquid all over him . |
| 26 | He followed her up the stairs to her flat and as she let them in he said , ‘ If only real life were as uncomplicated as Belinda 's world . ’ |
| 27 | Then he jabbed him in the ribs again . |
| 28 | Quigley had made sure he had stopped hitting me as soon as he heard her on the stairs . |
| 29 | He slid his cheek against hers and , moving with delicious deliberate slowness , he kissed her on the lips . |
| 30 | This time he kissed her on the lips . |