Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow , he made it through to the end . |
| 2 | Throwing back its bearskin cover , he lowered her carefully to the mattress and stood looking down at her . |
| 3 | But he laid her down on the horsehair sofa , and said Mrs Patten would not be in yet , and there was time ; and time there was , and what had happened last night was repeated , once and then again , until she , flushed and dishevelled , pulled down her dress , and said ‘ She is coming . |
| 4 | The light from the hall spilled across the multi-coloured counterpane , and he laid her gently in the middle . |
| 5 | Counting out seven pound notes , he laid them carefully on the table . |
| 6 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 7 | There he stabbed him repeatedly on the head , body and neck . |
| 8 | When my hon. Friend meets the chairman of the East Cumbria authority , will he congratulate him warmly on the fact that having , since 1982-83 , secured a budget increase , after inflation , of almost 15 per cent . |
| 9 | He pinned her down at the CI5 computer centre , and over the phone briefly explained what he and Doyle needed of her . |
| 10 | He pecked her lightly on the cheek . |
| 11 | He passed it on to the others at their dinner time meeting . |
| 12 | He lines it up on the shiny sideboard . |
| 13 | The grocer , a hard-faced ex-soldier whose right hand lacked a thumb ( Melanie wondered , had he lopped it off on the bacon-slicer ? |
| 14 | But beneath it she understood , accepted , found it far easier to hate him , when he fought her back to the bed , than to ignore him ; the bitings and scratchings of anger coming near enough to passion so that when he entered her again she found it possible , in her loathing , her detestation , her bitter resentment , to wrap her own strong , hard limbs about him in a grip designed to wound and crush him but which could also excite . |
| 15 | he sleeps it off across the back seat |
| 16 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
| 17 | Apparently Richard thought so , too , for after a moment he led her away to the bar . |
| 18 | When he led her away down the back steps the Tibetan followed and so did most of the crowd . |
| 19 | He nodded , and reaching out for her hand , he led her through into the sitting-room and sat down with her on the settee opposite the picture . |
| 20 | He led her up to the bedrooms , the floors and stairs wooden , fans whirring overhead in the steamy heat , mosquito netting over every door and window . |
| 21 | Still gripping her wrist , he led her over to the French windows . |
| 22 | After he had taken two large brandies , very fast ( too fast for what looked like a very fine marque ) , he led her over to the sofa and sitting beside her , put his arm around her . |
| 23 | Still offering no explanation , he led her down to the riverbank and then the rest of the way back to the centre . |
| 24 | He led her back into the lounge and steered her to her chair . |
| 25 | He led her back into the bedroom and sat her on the chair while he rummaged in the chest . |
| 26 | But his reaction was difficult to define because he merely gave a small shrug and , taking Lucy 's hand , he led her back along the path , where the darkness continued to be broken by the moon 's rays filtering through the trees . |
| 27 | He led her out into the huge marble-floored foyer . |
| 28 | ‘ There are two sides to our operation , ’ he had explained , when he led her out of the office block and across a bleak enclosed courtyard , where footsteps had scored a diagonal path through the snow , towards a high windowless wall of corrugated iron . |
| 29 | He led her out of the bedroom and onto the terrace where Victoria was waiting . |
| 30 | He led her gently to the sofa and sat down with her , holding her hand . |