Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 2 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 3 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 4 | Pushing his briefcase aside , he lowered himself into a chair , rested his elbow on the back , and crossed one leg over the other . |
| 5 | He lowered himself into an old leather chair and continued chewing while he waited . |
| 6 | Beside a muddy pool in a shadow-dappled patch of jungle where faint feeding tracks had finally petered out , he lowered himself onto a fallen log . |
| 7 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 8 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , Charlie made it really simple for me , there were two guys at the back who could n't stand up and he laid it on a plate for me . |
| 10 | Folding it up carefully , he laid it across a chair . |
| 11 | He ravished her like a lion , thrusting into her , his lips drawing out her life . |
| 12 | He checked it with a shake of his head . |
| 13 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 14 | Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’ |
| 15 | He and his wife , Hannie , were living apart when , she said , he attacked her during an argument over financial support . |
| 16 | And he attacked it with a relish and enthusiasm which surprised even himself . |
| 17 | He plunged it into a dish of lavender essence and was astonished how quickly the burn healed . |
| 18 | Actress Robin Givens gave the man a bloody nose after he mistook her for a hooker while she was filming in Chicago . |
| 19 | He ruled us with an iron hand and , while he was a very fair man , woe betide any officer who crossed him . |
| 20 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 21 | He sold himself to a local pig farmer . |
| 22 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 23 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 24 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 25 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 26 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 27 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 28 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 29 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 30 | He remained an active supporter of CND , boasted that his daughter had been conceived on an Aldermaston march , and had once horrified Margaret Thatcher by wearing his CND badge when he met her at a gathering of northern business people . |