Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Old Amos botched me when he made me from his seed . |
| 4 | ‘ Like a bologna sandwich ? ’ he asked her , as he made one for himself . |
| 5 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 6 | He made one as if he should try and comfort her , but turned away , walked upstage and on the balcony with his back to the audience , raised his arms widely only to drop them helplessly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was delighted , therefore , when the following year he was invited to join a Commonwealth team touring India ; feeling he had a point to prove he made plenty of runs , and was invited on two similar tours in the coming years . |
| 9 | He made plenty of them too : hundreds and double-hundreds , including probably the most famous century in Test history . |
| 10 | He made nothing for himself out of the plunder of the Church lands . |
| 11 | Kane , in creating the world , did not , like Yahweh , make light : he made himself into light . |
| 12 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 13 | ‘ He made himself at home . |
| 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 | Ince was lucky in that he made lots of fouls , but the ref played advantage on some and then forgot about them . |
| 30 | Pushing his briefcase aside , he lowered himself into a chair , rested his elbow on the back , and crossed one leg over the other . |