Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sounds he made fell into the embrace of a dead echo , and he felt that he might be the last man on earth . |
| 2 | As he made to sneak up the corridor to the stairs , the sounds of heated debate reached his ears , issuing from the front parlour . |
| 3 | He chanced to resurface at a moment in the film when the divine Ms Rau is indulging in carnal acrobatics with the leading male actor . |
| 4 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 5 | His ‘ guys ’ in Lebanon , the Asmar network , were not to be risked on routine intelligence for the DEA , and Coleman had no other contacts there that he cared to expose to the Syrian-backed heroin cartel in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 6 | Mr Goldberg said they could bring a libel action , but he planned to wait until the appeal verdict . |
| 7 | Henry was going to add a chapter towards the end of The Complete History of Wimbledon in which he planned to deal with the failure of nerve he sensed in the place . |
| 8 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |
| 9 | With this in mind , he planned to return to the project and , in 1978 , funded by the National Endowment for Humanities , the documentation entered its final phase . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding ! ’ yelped Margaret Lenham , as much astonished as afraid at the sight of what he planned to use for the operation : a knitting needle . |
| 11 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 12 | James Callaghan , when prime minister , would have the subjects he planned to raise on a piece of card , but often did n't bother to raise them , as they gossiped about politics or took a stroll around the gardens on summer evenings . |
| 13 | Police even found he had hidden a piece of metal , which they believe he planned to file into a knife , hidden in the sole of his shoe . |
| 14 | He plans to accompany Mr Major to his count in Huntingdon and will forgo the election night dinner he planned to host at the Mirabelle . |
| 15 | The committee decided not to summon him , according to Chaplin , when they heard he planned to appear in the costume , boots and battered bowler of the Chaplin tramp . |
| 16 | He was n't given too long a sentence providing he agreed to go into a clinic — you know — to be dried out and cured . |
| 17 | He agreed to preside over a public meeting of the inhabitants of Dundee to be held on 10 November 1819 to protest against ‘ the unprovoked , cruel and cowardly attack made on the people of Manchester ’ and ‘ to suggest the means most likely to lead to a reform of abuses ’ . |
| 18 | The King added that he knew MacDonald could depend on Conservative and Liberal support , and he agreed to preside over a meeting of the three party leaders on the following day . |
| 19 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 20 | Although he insisted that he had done nothing remiss — he admitted receiving a 5,000,000 yen loan from an associate of the firm in 1989 but claimed to have repaid the money — he agreed to resign from the party ( but not from the Upper House ) for having caused embarrassment to the SDPJ . |
| 21 | Yes , you see he agreed to contribute to a suitable replacement upon terms that we agreed , what happens if terms are n't , ca n't be agreed ? |
| 22 | In fact , de Valera and the civil servants he appointed to assist in the work , consulted Irish theologians on matters of society and church — state relations ( Longford and O'Neill 1970 : 295–6 ; Whyte 1980 : 379 ; Keogh 1987 ; Faughnan 1988 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He avoided going to the prize-giving so that he would n't have to meet her . |
| 25 | But he avoided sitting on the sofa next to her although she 'd left space . |
| 26 | He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger . |
| 27 | Oh aye he applied to go to the Gulf . |
| 28 | In the town of Newton Stewart , not too far from Annan , a solicitor , Giles Davies , lost £1.8 million from his clients ' accounts because he became embroiled in a similar deal . |
| 29 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 30 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |