Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Townsend oozed confidence from his first kick to touch , and he agreed after the match that being part of the Scottish squad had done much to sharpen his game . |
| 2 | and he knew who it was see cos he goes up the pub same as he does . |
| 3 | He sits in the kitchen all that time . |
| 4 | I am not surprised that he ventured into the fray this evening , because he has already won an outstanding victory for his constituents and I well understand his desire to enjoy another . |
| 5 | Jim Magilton I 'm sure would score from ten , twelve yards where he plastered against the post any other time . |
| 6 | He played in the hall some evenings , and took pride in their applause . |
| 7 | What proposals has he to put before the House this afternoon ? |
| 8 | And I was very worried that neither of us would be with Sir Henry when he walked across the moor that night . |
| 9 | He noticed in himself a definite tendency to swagger as he walked around the camp that morning and he had tried consciously to suppress it . |
| 10 | When he heard of the murder this morning , he was terrified of being questioned , imagining that Vera would somehow get to hear that he 'd spent the night at the Lodge — especially if he was detained . |
| 11 | Then when he knocked on the door this morning I swallowed a whole lot of saved-up salt and water and pressed my tongue and the timing was perfect , he came in and saw me being sick . |
| 12 | Remaining hidden as best he could , he glanced down the street both ways . |
| 13 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 14 | I used to watch his every movement when he went around the mill all the girls did . |
| 15 | He looked along the ride both ways . |
| 16 | Mr Sorrell was replaced by David Newlands , but he resigned from the company this spring , shortly before Saatchi shocked the stock market with a warning that group profits would be substantially below those in 1988 . |
| 17 | Among those I met were the Duke of Wellington , who has his London home in part of beautiful Apsley House , which with all its treasures he presented to the nation some years ago ; Vicomte and Vicomtesse Bernard de la Giraudière , and Mr Richard Nicholson the Vice Chairman of Laurent-Perrier UK , and his charming wife ; Mr Malcolm Innes , Mrs Piffa Schroder , Mr John Grant of Rothiemurchus , the Hon. |
| 18 | In 1982 , he sacked on the spot several high-ranking officials for failing to maintain an adequate food supply to the main market in Bucharest — as if it was their fault that there was nothing to show the General-Secretary when he put in a surprise inspection visit . |
| 19 | He jumped into the air several times then shook my hand , ‘ Merci , merci , Cornemuse , ; venez manger avec mois ce soir . ’ |
| 20 | None of the four phones would ring if he remained at the desk all day . |
| 21 | Said I 've been sorting the notes out , I 've put them in order back in , so that when he comes to the window all that the office staff got ta do is look through , like we was told to do |