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Example sentences of "he [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He whispered something into the ear of my dishevelled companion , who produced a bundle wrapped in old copies of Pravda .
2	As he stowed everything in the boot , Ashley noticed dark smudges beneath his eyes .
3	It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions .
4	Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ :
5	‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’
6	He got nothing like the price of it .
7	He got everything into the character that I wanted .
8	Glancing through a file ( which Harry took to be Heather 's ) with the pursed lips and darting eyes of an auditor perusing an unsatisfactory set of accounts , he conveyed none of the warmth or insight which Harry supposed successful psychoanalysis to require .
9	They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds .
10	No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled .
11	He found one near the exit where the checkout girl was just opening up and Mum wheeled her trolley into the space .
12	He helped everybody in the local community .
13	But when he saw us running towards him , he shouted something to the driver , and the taxi drove off quickly down the road .
14	Dalgliesh felt that it was time he contributed something to the speculation .
15	He muttered something about the place being primitive .
16	He muttered something in the direction of his wife , something about ‘ if she had a moment ’ .
17	He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation .
18	And he said he noticed something on the path but he could n't see what it was .
19	He risked everything at the short 15th after his five-iron tee shot finished among the rocks .
20	He returned one to the pile and got a larger one .
21	Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing .
22	Until he heard someone in the wood .
23	In doing so , he achieved something of the economic uplift associated with a move to the West , with little of the attendant culture shock , a fact which Glasgow can take as a kick in the groin or a pat on the back .
24	To make him need her more than he needed anything in the whole of Chung Kuo .
25	He broke one off the bunch and held it out tentatively .
26	He took one from the cupboard in the sick bay .
27	The flat was mine , you see , but he 'd bought the furniture , so he took everything except the child 's cot .
28	For several minutes he saw nothing in the shimmering haze of the plain .
29	At the inquest into his death and those he killed the sergeant said he saw nothing in the dead officer to make him question his state of mind .
30	Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood .