Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 2 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 3 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 4 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 5 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 6 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 7 | He asked it without any apparent sense of its being a stupid question . |
| 8 | He led her into another room , and there listened , with a good deal of amazement , to Rose 's account of her extraordinary conversation with Nancy . |
| 9 | He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation . |
| 10 | Innerd took over as Palace 's captain in 1906 after Ted Birnie had left us and he led us to several marvellous FA Cup triumphs , including the fabulous 1–0 Will at the home of his former club , and League champions , Newcastle United in January 1907 . |
| 11 | But the stuff we got , the stuff we got before that was really good you know Dan , do you remember the stuff he got us before that ? |
| 12 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 13 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 14 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 15 | He was a fanatical fisherman , and here on the borders of Galway and Mayo he found himself in some of the best fishing waters in Europe . |
| 16 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 17 | He helped himself to some more wine . |
| 18 | He helped himself to some more lamb tikka masala . |
| 19 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 20 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 21 | He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum . |
| 22 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 23 | ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house . |
| 24 | He let someone into that church , a thief , another derelict , a psychopath , and that person killed him . |
| 25 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 26 | Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed . |
| 27 | He mentioned it to several of his male colleagues . |
| 28 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 29 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 30 | At common law , if the court found that the plaintiff was partially to blame for his injuries , he received nothing at all . |