Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 2 | If she 'd had the power at that moment she would have reached out and crushed him into the carpet . |
| 3 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
| 4 | Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg . |
| 5 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 6 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 7 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 8 | Even with concussion she had struggled up and hit him with a frying pan . |
| 9 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 10 | The vicar says that a young Larusa , Masai after all , has stabbed him and beaten him with a stick and the whole town is talking about it . |
| 11 | Gravenor Henson , the leader of the Framework Knitters " Union , regarded the existence of the acts as " a tremendous millstone round the neck of the local artisan , which has depressed and debased him to the earth , every act which he has attempted every measure that he has devised to keep up or raise his wages , he has been told was illegal : the whole force of the civil power and influence of the district has been exerted against him because he was acting illegally " . |
| 12 | He 'd been slashing car tyres when approached him with a hammer . |