Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect he went for a walk after . |
| 2 | The security men say he died in the crossfire of an encounter with militants who want Kashmir to be independent of India . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , some people say he died in the town , always trying to make a broom that would last ; others say he just gave up and wasted away , others that he got somebody else to make the brooms and found somebody to provide better twigs , and got people to sell the brooms in other towns and cities , and hired more people to make more brooms , and built a broom-making factory , and made lots of money and had a splendid house made … |
| 4 | Police say he escaped with a considerable amount of money . |
| 5 | ‘ They say he escaped along the line , ’ someone announced , ‘ because he was covered in blood . ’ |
| 6 | People say he fell into the river . |
| 7 | They say he walked to the centre of the Sun Chamber , and that as he did so , the disguise fell from him , and everyone saw him for what he really was . |
| 8 | Some said he slept in his study while others believed he wandered about the corridors waiting to catch escaping pupils or those who had gone missing . |
| 9 | David Nicholson says he lived on the end of the racecourse for 22 years and his father lived there longer than that … for him Cheltenham is the best three days racing anywhere in the world and he loves it |
| 10 | I says , what th , he said , he said , well I 've I told the judge everybody 's got two jobs , he says he said to the judge , you 've got two jobs . |
| 11 | He says he knew from the start that they would spread conformity . |
| 12 | Justin says he ran for the first bit and now has a big blister |
| 13 | One of her co-accused in the Stompie Seipei Moeketsi trial , who supported her alibi that she was away in another state at the time of the 14-year-old 's murder , now says he lied throughout the proceedings . |
| 14 | He says he laughed at the interviewer . |
| 15 | Mike Burton says he came for a trial touched the ball 3 times and scored 3 tries . |
| 16 | Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy . |
| 17 | He says he worked like a pansy he said and now he says I go |
| 18 | He asked me what rights he had as a father . |
| 19 | Everything else he had collected he abandoned in the street drain . |
| 20 | Rescuers hope he took to a dinghy , which is missing . |
| 21 | Police now reveal he called at the house shortly after that . |
| 22 | With powerful leg strokes he made for the assault boat from which new flares were being fired . |
| 23 | ‘ I figure he went over the fence here , ’ said Prentice when we were outside in the rain once more . |
| 24 | And he recalled those who had practised best , dressed them up , and sent them out into Rome 's most fashionable streets in procession , to advertise his productions — Turandot he preceded with an enormous Chinese display , dragons , lanterns , fluttering silks and banners — all around the city . |
| 25 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 26 | In this case the seller will not be in breach of the terms implied by section 12 provided that before the contract was made he disclosed to the buyer the existence of the lien . |
| 27 | MacIver had said he knew of a double-deck trailer which went every week from Cumbernauld to Stornoway , via Inverness , carrying £300,000-£600,000 worth of spirits , groceries and tobacco . |
| 28 | She burst out laughing at the absurdity of it , laughed until she cried , and when the tears came he groped across the table to touch her hand around the empty glass . |
| 29 | While he ate he looked through the post . |
| 30 | We are all ’ — he swung his hand comprehensively , to take in the audience , the studio staff , somehow implying he took in the watching millions too — ‘ we are all worried by what we have heard of your work . |