Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |
| 2 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 3 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 4 | Samuel Whitfield Daukes was his name , and what a very fine job he made of this rambling Gothic house of flint with its stone dressings , its ‘ Tudor ’ windows with their mullions and transomes , and its jolly carved bargeboards . |
| 5 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 6 | Douglas Young reports from the Berlin Film Festival on several exciting discoveries he made among this year 's entries ( and some he wishes he had n't ) |
| 7 | He pounced on that instantly . |
| 8 | And when they turned homeward , to tell their grandfather what they had seen and heard , the king of the vookodlaks scurried away to a muddy , murky , bushy part of the wood where he lived with all his tribe of ugly , dark , hairy , spiteful , brawling goblins . |
| 9 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 10 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 11 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 12 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |
| 13 | He lived for another four years while his empire lapsed into chaos . |
| 14 | Perhaps as a result , he lived in some poverty for a time in old age , though he was eventually rescued by his friends . |
| 15 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 16 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 17 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 18 | Jacques Ogg 's immaculate performances are lively and sensitive : in this very different music , he plays with all the depth that Horszowski finds in Chopin . |
| 19 | In the winter he plays with some of them most weeks , either at Oswestry or Aberdovey , where he has a mobile home close to the first tee . |
| 20 | If he plays in all five Pakistan Tests , he will be one short of 100 appearances for England , and that includes three years in the middle of his career when he was banned from selection for involvement in a rebel tour of South Africa . |
| 21 | With equal ease and sympathy he penetrated into that maze of Roman rules , conventions and unexpected reactions in which many other Hellenistic politicians lost their way . |
| 22 | The former Millwall star , now a writer and broadcaster , stunned the packed audience at a football evening at Waterstone 's Bookshop in London 's Charing Cross Road as he laid into more of the game 's major figures . |
| 23 | Although he succeeded in that task he was surprisingly replaced in mid-summer 1982 by Alan Mullery . |
| 24 | Again , by exercising his powers of persuasion and sticking to his guns , Pearce 's view prevailed and he succeeded in both aims . |
| 25 | This concentration on christology is of the very essence of Barth 's method , but the greatness of his theological achievement lies not simply in the method and form of the whole , but in the way in which he succeeded by this means in re-integrating and casting quite fresh light on all the great leading themes of classical orthodox belief . |
| 26 | Leith was still gasping at his audacity as well as at his discernment when , flicking a glance at the way her chestnut hair was fastened in a repressive knot , he inserted with another glance at her severe hairstyle , ‘ Now why would a beautiful woman , with equally beautiful hair , try to hide her beauty behind glasses which she clearly does n't need , try to minimise the beauty of her splendid hair , and also try to detract attention from what I clearly recall is a figure of delightful shape and proportions ? ’ |
| 27 | Er , the meaning of your dreams revealed , you know , you see this kind of , yeah , now why did he disapprove of that kind of analysis ? |
| 28 | What passes through the mind of a dog as he snoozes with half an eye upon his trusted human companions — whimpering , tail-wagging and yelping in his sleep ? |
| 29 | For his latest he ropes in some 27 guest artists including John ‘ Drumbo ’ French ( formerly Captain Beefheart 's drummer ) , Bruce Anderson and Richard Thompson . |
| 30 | In The Favourite Game he turns on those who produce such work in a wholly negative way . |