Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [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 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 4 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 7 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 8 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 9 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 10 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 14 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He came to see me after the performance — several times , in fact . ’ |
| 17 | It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions . |
| 18 | ‘ He came to tell us about the arrangements , it was n't very well organised |
| 19 | Typical of Geoff 's talent was the opening goal he scored to set us on the way to a Wembley victory over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in April 1991 , cleaving his way though The Toffees ' defence to head home from a corner and , perhaps partly because of Palace 's and Geoff 's success at Wembley , he was awarded his first full International cap when England travelled to Turkey for the European Nations Championship tie on May Day 1991 . |
| 20 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 21 | He turned to face her in the doorway . |
| 22 | The following day he arrived to collect me from the hotel where I had spent the night . |
| 23 | In his characteristic phrase , " I am their leader , I must follow them " — but he determined to follow them from the front . |
| 24 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 25 | As the sow came at him he allowed her to run her head into the bin then , bent double , he began to back her towards the open door . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 28 | He started to clout me around the head , yelling , ‘ Burglar ! |
| 29 | And to Folly 's surprise he started to lead her towards the building . |
| 30 | Still flexing his fingers , he started to dig them into the base of her neck , or rather , in the area where her neck might be assumed to begin . |