Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 He tried to look me in the eye , Say
2 As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm .
3 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 .
4 He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War .
5 He turned to face her in the doorway .
6 James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford .
7 For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air .
8 He declined to add anything in the column for ‘ Other personal information ’ .
9 Because of the growing publicity surrounding his movements , he decided to lose himself in the crowd , going in through the turnstiles and watching the player from the terraces .
10 ‘ Nobody except me that is , ’ I added hastily in case he decided to throw me in the dungeons .
11 On hearing that Harry wished to go up to Melton Mowbray for the day , he offered to drive him in the Bentley .
12 Of course , where Dorothy was concerned , that was his only strategy if he wanted to secure her in the end .
13 Certainly he refused to implicate himself in the development of a theory in which he had played so great a part .
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