Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 2 | A statue to him stands at the junction of Seagate and Castle Street , Irvine . |
| 3 | A huge bronze statue commemorating him stands in the Town House Square in front of a thirteenth-century residential tower , renovated and given a dome roof in the early nineteenth century . |
| 4 | That gave him dibs on the scav , not that there would be much worth looting in this sandhole . |
| 5 | Happily , my finally getting to meet him coincides with the release of one of Morrissey 's great records ( they seem to alternate quite evenly with duff ones ) , so there 's no awkward rub between the fan 's loyalty and the critic 's ‘ responsibility ’ to the ‘ truth ’ . |
| 6 | Her obsession with him extends to the jam which she makes entirely from blackberries picked in his garden . |
| 7 | He crosses to the window , wipes the inside of the pane and gazes out . |
| 8 | At exactly 2100 hours their time on Tuesdays and Thursdays , the DJ will relay any short coded messages in the dedication for the first record he plays on the ‘ Lovers Overseas ’ programme . |
| 9 | He plays on the right wing and has pace as well as skill . |
| 10 | here 's the cup team … the injury to Marcus Hannaford means Jerry Perrins is called back … he plays on the wing … and with skipper Ian Smith playing for the BaBas … |
| 11 | RORY Underwood makes his last appearance of the season at Twickenham today when he plays for the Royal Air Force against the Army in the crucial final match of this year 's Inter Service tournament . |
| 12 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 13 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 14 | He plays for the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg and is a certainty for Transvaal . |
| 15 | He plays for the Whitehaven Tennis Club and is involved in their purchase of new tennis courts . |
| 16 | He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team . |
| 17 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 18 | He plays with the quintet in a quite different sense from that in which they play at revolutionary politics ; though , bemused by him , set at odds , their purposes deflected and their fantasies fed and coaxed along , it does n't seem like playing to them . |
| 19 | He plays along the back line and in midfield . |
| 20 | But Taylor stressed : ‘ I just have to wait and see how many games he plays over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 21 | He normally takes great care to keep us informed of the central part he plays in the worlds of affairs and ideas . |
| 22 | But now he 's retired I 've heard that , when he plays in the odd charity match , he has a go now . |
| 23 | ‘ He is nothing like the gigolos he plays in the movies . |
| 24 | ALAN LEONARD aims to add another string to his bow when he plays in the Irish National Pairs championship finals in Blackrock , County Dublin next weekend . |
| 25 | show exactly the worth he discerns in the Trojan conflict . |
| 26 | Buttoning up his fly ( Sutcliffe 's trousers date back to that era , and look it ) he retreats to the washbasins on the other side of the room . |
| 27 | He retreats along the corridor and passes the three injured , shooting another student in front of the escalators . |
| 28 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 29 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 30 | I heard the machine that he rubs across the floor start up with that horrendous howl that makes my teeth curl . |