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

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1 'E went into the bathroom , and I went .
2 It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’
3 In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months .
4 Beauty to him came from the soul , as we say , and he saw it as his task to exteriorise it in some way that harmonized with the subject matter .
5 President Fernando Collor de Mello resigned on Dec. 29 as impeachment proceedings against him began in the Senate .
6 The balustrade beside him looked like the shelves of a hosiery shop : dozens of pairs of silk stockings hung from it or lay in piles on the flagstones beside the brass six-pounder .
7 And that was how her love for him felt at the moment — as cheap and useless as a dollar .
8 Multiple shadows of him fell on the perimeter wall , leaping like pale giants .
9 Part of him hankered after the poetic Victorian times when women died in childbirth at twenty leaving their partner free to get another young girl .
10 Goons to either side of him took in the air through their foreheads .
11 He jacked it up and watched as a station logo which meant nothing to him appeared on the screen .
12 ‘ You were a soldier , ’ I said , not as a question , but as a straight assertion of fact , for almost everything about him spoke of the military .
13 The letters appointing him spoke of the ‘ dissensions recently arisen ’ in the duchy of Aquitaine where he was to act ‘ to pacify the said land ’ ( circa stabilimentum terre predicte ) , thereby incurring additional expenses ( which were to be recom-pensed ) at the Paris parlement and in the duchy itself .
14 They 've used old tiles which of course helps — but the proportion , the way the thing 's built … ‘ by the old people of the old materials in the old unhurrying way' ’ but at the same time ‘ ‘ sweet to all modern uses ' ’ … and who do you think did this for her ? — a young chap called Lutyens , 27 he is — and I 've always heard him derided by the Schultz school as a ‘ ‘ society , , architect .
15 That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . "
16 Outside , the world was waiting for Mr Major 's victory oration and shortly after 1.00 he made for the front door .
17 Everyone hastened to stand aside as he made for the door .
18 A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it .
19 Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time .
20 With powerful leg strokes he made for the assault boat from which new flares were being fired .
21 Their scent came up to him as he made for the stage door , thrusting his note carefully among the rain-wet blooms .
22 As he made for the door he heard the phone ringing in the hall and when he entered he saw Joe turn from the telephone table towards him , saying , ‘ It 's for you , Martin .
23 His whole body jerked in denial as he made for the drawing-room .
24 As he made for the door she said , ‘ You wo n't forget to take that bottle in for her , will you ?
25 While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible .
26 He made for the Druid 's Well , a mile or so to the east of the town .
27 So he made for the Jackley road from which nearly all the traffic had now disappeared .
28 He screamed and almost lost his footing as he made for the stairs .
29 Straight and fast flew Bower-bird as he made for the mountain top .
30 And a young man , certain of his own strength and skill , running with balanced ease round all opposition as he made for the line .
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