Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on .
2 In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End .
3 His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby .
4 Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right .
5 Brahe ‘ shows ’ Epstein his work — that is , he flies him around the 30-kilometer circumference of the accelerator which is buried deep underground , pinpointing the surface features and describing their relation to the features concealed below the surface .
6 Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation .
7 The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian .
8 The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million .
9 With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional .
10 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters .
11 He led her to the far room where she had found Leo .
12 He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper .
13 He led her through the crowded flat to the kitchen and poured her a glass of wine .
14 ‘ Pringle 's used to have a Directors ' Dining Room , with their own cook , ’ Wilcox explained as he led her through the drab corridors of the administration block , and out across a yard where fresh snow was already covering the footpath that had been cleared .
15 As he led her towards the wood-and-thatch building by the roadside , Isabel contemplated another night in fitzAlan 's company .
16 When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door .
17 He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide .
18 As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’
19 A porter opened the double-barred gate , shouting a welcome to the Santerres as he led us along the old causeway which wound past birch , oak and yew trees up to the front of the house .
20 He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance .
21 Tugging her gently , he seated her on the low stone wall .
22 But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
23 But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name .
24 My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj .
25 He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move .
26 He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand .
27 " I 'm sorry , can I … " she motioned towards the door , and he helped her through the packed people , using his elbow to get them out of the way .
28 After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench .
29 Well he , he , he given them a free cup of coffee it 'll be alright , but he did n't , he gave , the machine took ten P pieces so he provided them with the ten P pieces to put in and then when it was full up he 'd empty it out and give them all ten P pieces back
30 But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar .
  Next page