Example sentences of "he [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 2 | He avoided going to the prize-giving so that he would n't have to meet her . |
| 3 | But he avoided sitting on the sofa next to her although she 'd left space . |
| 4 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 5 | He clung shivering to the comfortless bed that seemed now the only tenuous security he had , but he was plucked away from it and hustled through the doorway , still bemused with cold and sleep . |
| 6 | One of the offences to which Gavin pleaded guilty was a specimen charge of £100 , an amount he admitted taking from the account once or twice a month between March and October 1991 . |
| 7 | Some parasites of insect eggs , for instance , can stop a small population of pests from increasing , so application of a pesticide has to he timed according to the number of the larvae of the pests rather than the number of their eggs . |
| 8 | He tried squeezing through the bars but it was impossible to escape . |
| 9 | After two harpoons had been stuck into him — one marked ‘ philanderer ’ , one marked ‘ draft-dodger ’ — he swam bleeding through the Democratic primaries of February and March . |
| 10 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 11 | From the handgrip he found lying by the door , he pulled out his lightweight kimono and put in on . |
| 12 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 13 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 14 | He stopped thinking about the amount of jam he was taking and leant back in his chair . |
| 15 | Frantically crossing himself over and over again , he fled screaming towards the grooms ' quarter as fast as his fat legs would carry him . |
| 16 | Then as four pints of blood spurted from his gaping wounds , he staggered screaming to the nearby home of 63-year-old Mavis Clark . |
| 17 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 18 | He practised running on the spot . |
| 19 | In the farmhouse he practised putting on the gaiters and found it a struggle . |
| 20 | Gwyn Parry of Greasby , however , observed such an excursion when the motive power throughout comprised of a Collett 0–6–0 and Dukedog No 9028 , which he photographed departing from the Down passenger loop platform on the return working . |
| 21 | In the next record gap he came trundling into the studio to tell me that the phone call was from the bride 's stepmother . |
| 22 | Some hours later he came striding into the station-master 's office to collect me . |
| 23 | Determined not to hold Penry up , she made her purchases at such speed that she was outside , waiting , when he came striding down the narrow street to collect her . |
| 24 | So apparently last night he came knocking on the door . |
| 25 | It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train . |
| 26 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 27 | And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that . |
| 28 | He came rushing across the garden while she sewed and she called out to him to come and try the sleeves . |
| 29 | He studied acting under the GI Bill and after touring in summer stock he began landing parts in television as heavies . |
| 30 | I 've had some of these trees lopped , " he added peering into the twilight outside . |