Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Mackerel , Ron ! " he whispered to me on the bridge . |
| 2 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |
| 3 | It means living with the perspective that we are in touch with the Lord Whose Son died so that we might enjoy the sort of life that He planned for us at the beginning of Genesis , and living with that perspective and privilege . |
| 4 | Holly saw his face as he passed behind him on the perimeter path , a face that was scraped with despair . |
| 5 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 6 | He rode beside you in the street car and complained about the traffic and the weather with you . |
| 7 | A few weeks later , whilst visiting St. John 's College , he shared with us about the mutual support within the group and the high priority given to it by its members . |
| 8 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
| 9 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 10 | He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky . |
| 11 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 12 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 13 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 15 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 16 | He moved towards us across the road . |
| 17 | Sometimes Gabriel 's ghost was so physical , so vivid , that Lee would almost cry out to Larry to warn him as he moved through it between the kitchen and the living-room or walked over it as Gabriel lay on the carpet in front of the television . |
| 18 | The Woodvilles had given no grounds for complaint when he moved against them at the end of April , and the protectorate was still viable in mid June when he chose to end it . |
| 19 | The Woodvilles had given no grounds for complaint when he moved against them at the end of April , and the protectorate was still viable in mid June when he chose to end it . |
| 20 | Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind . |
| 21 | It was he who after a particularly violent disagreement , suggested that Joan should be invited to pay them another visit — though he referred to her as the lady Anne , as had been agreed . |
| 22 | Throughout the book he referred to it as the monster or used another word which expressed his hatred for it . |
| 23 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 24 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 25 | He knelt beside her on the hearthrug . |
| 26 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 27 | Perhaps , thought Robert , as he trudged after her towards the iron gates , this was a signal for their lovemaking to become more decorous . |
| 28 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
| 29 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 30 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |