Example sentences of "he [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion he met Santerre inside the main hall . |
| 2 | Not two years later , he was dealing smack in Ballymun where he met Isabelle at an unlikely pub near a client 's flat . |
| 3 | He led Lucien onto a narrow street lined by tiny , dark shops . |
| 4 | He led Leeds to the English championship last season but the team 's fortunes have taken a dive this year . |
| 5 | He found Woodruffe with a tall , one-armed man in a raincoat and a bowler hat . |
| 6 | But when the duke — still in his flying gear — was ushered into the presence at Ditchley Park , he found Churchill in a playful mood . |
| 7 | He was ambitious and he regarded Middlesbrough as a big club . |
| 8 | Matt chuckled as he regarded Silas with an amused glint in eyes that were so like his nephew 's . |
| 9 | He had no idea of the real identity of one of the major shareholders in the enterprise and he regarded Irina as a dedicated and skilful doctor . |
| 10 | He caught Duran with a solid left hook and when Duran grabbed for cover Leonard wanted to get out and back to his sniping post . |
| 11 | He caught HIV from a casual encounter , did n't realise and they patched up the row . |
| 12 | He described Chelsea as a little village a couple of miles from London where the Thames ran between nurseries and market gardens , ‘ of which there are a frightful number ’ . |
| 13 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 14 | He fixed Warton in the unrelenting stare of his cold green eyes . |
| 15 | The new WBC champion said he ranked Bowe among the best heavyweight fighters today , but was ‘ confident ’ he would beat him if the two met . |
| 16 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 17 | He told Daniel about the terrible St Rémy painting of the blasted tree , about noir-rouge , and Daniel said that it was odd that these orchards should be all over the walls of other asylums now , to cheer people up . |
| 18 | He told Bowe at the final press conference : ‘ You may well get lucky and catch Holyfield with a good shot . |
| 19 | Guha surely had it right when he likened Littlewoods to a giant tanker that takes ages to change direction . |
| 20 | He painted Raymond as a mysterious and sensitive young man with an air of extraordinary prescience in an as yet unmoulded face . |
| 21 | He turned Asquith into a private hero . |
| 22 | Goal machine Martin McGaughey , even deadlier than Cowan at his Linfield peak , had a chance to decide for himself when he faced Smith for the first time last week . |
| 23 | Helped by his sisters Katie and Edith as well as Alex Torrance Jnr , he skipped Perth to a dramatic last shot victory in the Scottish Mixed Championships at Kilmarnock . |
| 24 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 25 | He hit one against Liverpool ( H 1–3 ) and another to secure a point at Manchester United ( 1–1 ) in 1969–70 , while in 1970–71 he stunned Leeds with a late equaliser ( H 1–1 ) and at Ipswich his penalty set us on the way to a 2–1 win . |
| 26 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |
| 27 | Miles was silent as he followed Piper to the Technical Support area . |
| 28 | He followed Dimity into the small kitchen which smelt deliciously of gingerbread . |
| 29 | The old pub looked slightly sinister standing dark against the night sky and Billy shivered as he followed Yanto through the open five barred gateway into the back garden of the ‘ Sally ’ , as it was called locally . |
| 30 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |