Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throwing back its bearskin cover , he lowered her carefully to the mattress and stood looking down at her . |
| 2 | Apparently Richard thought so , too , for after a moment he led her away to the bar . |
| 3 | He led her gently to the sofa and sat down with her , holding her hand . |
| 4 | Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror . |
| 5 | He handed it across to the Colonel who noticed with some satisfaction that it was addressed to him by name and not merely as commanding officer . |
| 6 | He welcomed her warmly to the microphone , ‘ one of the more promising younger women members ’ , and warned her of the amber and red lights . |
| 7 | He followed them sadly to the door . |
| 8 | But he followed him quietly to the table and was soon deeply involved in his new study . |
| 9 | He swung her away to the farthest end of the floor from the new arrivals . |
| 10 | When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation : |
| 11 | After tea , he called me closer to the fire , while Adèle played with Mrs Fairfax . |
| 12 | He took her home to the cottage near the canteen . |
| 13 | He took me straight to the Rembrandt and talked about it , without lowering his voice , and I had the smallness to be embarrassed because some other people there stared at us . |
| 14 | Then he dragged it away to the drawing-room . |