Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E told us on Sunday at the sermon . |
| 2 | He had n't seen her , but the closeness of him moved her to flight . |
| 3 | The sight of her legs as they stretched forward to keep up with him lifted him with exultation . |
| 4 | To look at him filled her with too many confusing feelings . |
| 5 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 6 | I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye . |
| 7 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
| 8 | Love reaching out to him took him by the heart and wrung him . |
| 9 | Only his strong arms holding her tight against him saved her from falling , her bones turning to liquid within her as his lips nuzzled relentlessly towards her ear . |
| 10 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 11 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 12 | ‘ Old Amos botched me when he made me from his seed . |
| 13 | He made them by scattering his droppings over the sky and this is why the grass and the trees grow so thick on the world . |
| 14 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 15 | Qualified privilege may be claimed if the member of the council making the statement about a person can show that he made it without malice and in pursuit of a public duty . |
| 16 | He made it without difficulty on to his raft , swinging it round to join the group he had noticed dropping away to his left ; and was overturned by a breaking wave . |
| 17 | He escaped with the help of Bosnians , who gave him civilian clothes to replace his army uniform , and a network of ethnic Hungarians , dodging military police across the country until he made it over the border to Szeged . |
| 18 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 19 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 20 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 21 | He made it to grammar school in Woking , leaving at sixteen with enough O-levels to get a traineeship on the local Surrey Advertiser . |
| 22 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 23 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 24 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 25 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 26 | Grant had always prided himself on his fitness and worked out regularly in his health club gym , but by the time he made it to where the stone coping of the sloping gable joined the chimney stack , he felt as though every muscle of his arms and shoulders were on fire . |
| 27 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 28 | He made it at 9.30pm yet heard Mr Gilbey tell Diana he was about to meet friends for dinner . |
| 29 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 30 | He lowered her over the fountain until Robyn could see her own reflection in the water . |