Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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1 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
2 | He made one tour in the early 1830s , when already ill and enfeebled . |
3 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
4 | It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun . |
5 | ‘ She will start training for Wimbledon this weekend , ’ added her agent , but he admitted her playing in the year 's third Grand Slam tournament was ‘ not a certainty ’ . |
6 | Southall , delighted with the look made famous by the great Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin , has even added to the macho image by pulling out all the padding which comes with today 's goalkeepers ' shirts because he thinks it gets in the way of doing the job properly . |
7 | He thinks it came in the pure stuff , transparent crystals . ’ |
8 | First of all he let nothing stand in the way of his true feelings . |
9 | But he let nothing get in the way of his chief purpose . |
10 | And he let them help in the shop ( Carrie loved that : measuring out things on the scales and giving the change ) until Nick stole some biscuits one day and he came in and caught him . |
11 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |
12 | He wants them to share in the excitement of an excellent revenue week . |
13 | He wants everyone pointing in the same direction , and that means a common culture and a common status . |
14 | Ask the Father which passage(s) he wants you to read in the Bible . |
15 | He told her to look in the table drawer in the living-room — he thought there might be a spare drying-up cloth in it . |
16 | ‘ He told me to stay in the house — not to go out . ’ |
17 | As Huy came closer , he noticed something glinting in the half light , not quite halfway up the door and towards its centre . |
18 | ‘ Well that 's the way things are goin' over here , and that 's the way he sees it goin' in the future , under the Government constraints he outlined at that meetin' . ’ |
19 | Peter Lunnen , who took the call , said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that as he shouted down the telephone line to Mrs Wilks , he heard her speaking in the distance . |
20 | Raised in extreme poverty he taught himself to paint in the style of Durer , Bosch , Leonardo and other Old Masters . |
21 | He takes her to live in the Valley of Paradise , where all her desires are met except one , which is to see the face of her husband . |
22 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
23 | Very clearly he saw himself standing in the BBC Club with Sherlock Forster and hearing the name of Marius Steen , the name that had come to dominate his life . |
24 | The next three shops was which was a er he become I think in the finish but it was a toy shop and then you came to er the fruiters , on the other side of Street , and you came down to er little pawnshop . |
25 | He had them erected in the grounds of his house — now council offices . |
26 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
27 | Grandad never went near a pub because of what he said they put in the beer . |
28 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
29 | He said it remained in the black but he refused to rule out job cuts at the factory , where 40 workers lost their jobs last year . |
30 | He waves me to sit in the chair and I do , yawning . |