Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The sounds he made fell into the embrace of a dead echo , and he felt that he might be the last man on earth . |
2 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
3 | It seemed as though he was going straight through but at the entrance he stopped peeped into the passage and broke away . |
4 | Increasingly he seemed fixated on the danger that it would escalate into a world war . |
5 | The biographer of J. A. Macfadyen recalled that ‘ whenever he preached he seemed overcharged with the sense of the reality and supreme importance of the Gospel ’ . |
6 | He danced lightfooted across the European racing stage , and with just a little better luck , would have left it undefeated . |
7 | How could he report to his girls the tortures he knew happened in the city prison ? |
8 | And , the children were in there erm doing their P E and er he went stood at the door and watched them and he was quite happy . |
9 | He fell gored through the abdomen , and the bull attacked " him again as he writhed in agony on the ground . |
10 | In 1834 he resigned his office because he felt slighted by the ministry ( another Irish peer , the second Marquess Conyngham , having been appointed postmaster-general ) . |
11 | Early in his career , he used the ‘ age-regression ’ technique to uncover traumatic childhood events which he felt lay at the root of his patient 's distress , but he came to realise that it was highly unlikely that all Viennese children were sexually molested by their parents even though nearly all his patients , when under hypnosis vividly described such encounters . |
12 | He felt landlocked in the middle of all those fields . ’ |
13 | And these hung still , though alertly braced , for more than a minute , while the torch he carried ranged round the interior of the passage , and leaked little sparks of muted light into the outer day . |
14 | Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal , with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys . |