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Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green .
2	He escaped with the help of Bosnians , who gave him civilian clothes to replace his army uniform , and a network of ethnic Hungarians , dodging military police across the country until he made it over the border to Szeged .
3	Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on .
4	Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way .
5	His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby .
6	Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair .
7	She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top .
8	‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’
9	In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End .
10	He lowered her over the fountain until Robyn could see her own reflection in the water .
11	When the crackle of the flames , the creak of the floorboard , and the weight of their bodies returned , he lowered her to the carpet before the fire and sat himself beside her , leaning so that his face was only inches above hers .
12	With a groan he lowered her to the quilt and brought his head down .
13	Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost .
14	Pushing the coverlet aside , he laid her on the bed , and sat down beside her , studying her white face .
15	Then he laid her on the bed and feasted his eyes on her , slender and seductive , totally naked except for the glowing ruby that flashed fire whenever she moved her hand .
16	Lifting her with incredible ease , he laid her across the desk and prising her legs open , spread his half-naked body over hers .
17	He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted .
18	Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top .
19	Jehan pulled his tunic over his head , and he laid it on the empty stool to his right .
20	He laid it on the table halfway between him and Cley , his head on one side as he appeared to measure the distance precisely .
21	He laid it on the desk .
22	When I left in December 1928 he succeeded me in the house as Captain of Games .
23	He inserted it through the side of his skull and , finding that he was still alive though in some pain , drove to a nearby hospital , where he later died .
24	George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach .
25	Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck .
26	Then at a remote place on the bank of the River Swale he first sexually assaulted her and when she fought back he battered her about the head with a rock or rocks from the bank until he thought she was dead . ’
27	Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette .
28	He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall .
29	He collared her in the staff-room at eleven-thirty .
30	And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ?