Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
2 | He aligned himself with the workers , the rebels at the barricades , with Zola and Michelet and the students of 1848 . |
3 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
4 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
5 | He passed her on the stairs . |
6 | When he sold them around the pubs and to neighbours that evening , the money would subsidise his meagre pension . |
7 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
8 | He restoreth my soul : he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name 's sake . |
9 | ‘ What 's — the matter this morning ? ’ she said , in the voice she had used when he asked her for an off-games note . |
10 | Gradually , he led her through the centuries to later years , years that brought about the attempt to overthrow the Faith by the English under Henry , and of the increasingly repressive measures that had been taken by the Lord Deputies under Elizabeth in the last fifteen years . |
11 | And so saying , he led me over the fields to his childhood home . |
12 | And he led me towards the hills |
13 | He led us past the remains of the Young Eea , a copse of blackened and dead trees , planted some 150 years ago , but drowned when the land was inundated with water . |
14 | He got it from the boys instead . |
15 | I mean , he sell anything in the clothes line , anything . |
16 | He helped me with the goats and with the work in the cornfields , and soon we were good friends . |
17 | She cried out as he caught her by the shoulders . |
18 | He grasped her by the shoulders , his fingers biting in , through the thinness of her top . |
19 | He approached me in the Limes Club in Sheffield and said if I signed with him , he would fill my book and raise my fee — a promise which he fulfilled . |
20 | The fisherman was so shocked that he let the body slip back into the water and , though he reported it to the police , no action was taken by them . |
21 | But because he accepts something from the philosophers ' view , a view which leads to scepticism , he himself runs the risk of it . |
22 | He says none of the parties can afford to ignore the fact that thousands of people die of starvation each week . |
23 | Yeah , he played it in the Witches |
24 | Only Ember cared enough to come and talk to her ; from what he told her of the others , both the towered and the plain , she was glad . |
25 | He told her about the fairies who lived in the holes on the river bank , and how Billy was half leprechaun . |
26 | When he told her about the children at Dovercourt she and a friend went along to help in teaching English . |
27 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
28 | However , when he surrenders himself to the moods and atmospheres of the hills , something authentic comes through : |
29 | He bundled her down the stairs and set off through the rain at a cracking pace . |
30 | Or perhaps it could be the heart-stopping finale where they finally , sorry , break the ice , and after a quick peckeroo execute the near impossible Pamchenko manoeuvre ( basically he grabs her by the feet and spins her in increasing circles , and she prays he does n't let go ) . |