Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was efficiently affable , and invited him to come round straight away . |
| 2 | that 's right , that 's right and now that he 's shaken off the Scottish Office I invited him to come along to it as well so we may find |
| 3 | I caught him jumping up and down , tearing at his hair and wailing ‘ Why me ? |
| 4 | I found him hooked up to the interactive software in the starpod . |
| 5 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 6 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |
| 7 | Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known . |
| 8 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 9 | I went on , running where I could , and found him walking back towards me through the dayniter . |
| 10 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 11 | She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet . |
| 12 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 13 | She let him carry on with his stupidity and offered no elaboration nor explanation of her terms . |
| 14 | After an initial resistance , she let him talk on when this happened , but she turned her mind away , only half listening . |
| 15 | Like himself , Alexander was a clerk who served the King , even following him to England when the late Scottish King had gone south to attend the coronation of Edward I. Corbett let him ramble on while the gambling group broke up amidst loud shouts and farewells , and a harassed servant brought Corbett a cloak . |
| 16 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 17 | Lunch was set on the terrace , as he 'd promised , and Luce let him draw out a chair for her . |
| 18 | The path was stony ; that was why she let him hold on to her , and for no other reason . |
| 19 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 20 | She let him go on , offering the proper monosyllable here and there . |
| 21 | Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way . |
| 22 | It was not that God let him get out of hand because he was too weak to control him . |
| 23 | ‘ Why here we are all mustarded ’ , as the roast beef said to the Welsh rabbit ’ ; ‘ ‘ Off with a whisk ’ , as the butcher said to the flies ’ ; ‘ ‘ When a man is ashamed to show the front of his face let him turn round and show the back of it ’ , as the turnstile said to the weather-cock . ’ |
| 24 | It developed his imaginative skills ad self-confidence and helped him to settle in at school more easily . ’ |
| 25 | Nell helped him to lie down on a blanket , supporting his head with another . |
| 26 | Melissa bit back a scathing comment but she could hear the icy edge in her voice as she said , ‘ So you helped him to clean up . |
| 27 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 28 | What began as a hobby took over his life and though Joan did n't have the same initial enthusiasm , she helped him set up Woodstock Exotics in 1983 and now she becomes so fond of some of the plants she wo n't be parted from them ! |
| 29 | I helped him to sit down , and sat with him . |
| 30 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |