Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He escaped with the help of Bosnians , who gave him civilian clothes to replace his army uniform , and a network of ethnic Hungarians , dodging military police across the country until he made it over the border to Szeged . |
| 2 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 3 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 4 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 5 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 6 | He looked to belong to a different generation from that of Dysart and Ockleton , his face flushed and lined beneath a mane of grey hair , his chest heaving desperately as he lowered himself into the wheelchair . |
| 7 | Then he lowered himself into the driving seat , slowly and painfully , and pulled the door shut . |
| 8 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 9 | He lowered himself in the saddle , then turned , looking back at her . |
| 10 | He lowered her over the fountain until Robyn could see her own reflection in the water . |
| 11 | When the crackle of the flames , the creak of the floorboard , and the weight of their bodies returned , he lowered her to the carpet before the fire and sat himself beside her , leaning so that his face was only inches above hers . |
| 12 | Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost . |
| 13 | With a groan he lowered her to the quilt and brought his head down . |
| 14 | He kept two in the house , one equipped with a bell so that he could ring should he want anything in the grave ! |
| 15 | He whispered something into the ear of my dishevelled companion , who produced a bundle wrapped in old copies of Pravda . |
| 16 | Pushing the coverlet aside , he laid her on the bed , and sat down beside her , studying her white face . |
| 17 | Then he laid her on the bed and feasted his eyes on her , slender and seductive , totally naked except for the glowing ruby that flashed fire whenever she moved her hand . |
| 18 | Lifting her with incredible ease , he laid her across the desk and prising her legs open , spread his half-naked body over hers . |
| 19 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
| 20 | He laid it on the desk . |
| 21 | He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely . |
| 22 | When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games . |
| 23 | Actually , thought Henry , as he checked himself in the mirror , no one , not even the police , would be stupid enough to imagine that Elinor could be the victim of a crime passionnel . |
| 24 | He inserted it through the side of his skull and , finding that he was still alive though in some pain , drove to a nearby hospital , where he later died . |
| 25 | Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck . |
| 26 | George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach . |
| 27 | Then at a remote place on the bank of the River Swale he first sexually assaulted her and when she fought back he battered her about the head with a rock or rocks from the bank until he thought she was dead . ’ |
| 28 | Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette . |
| 29 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 30 | He collared her in the staff-room at eleven-thirty . |