Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teenage snakes tumble , somersault and skid down after him like over-zealous baby ducks in ardent pursuit of a mother figure . |
| 2 | Joseph 's melancholy had begun to evaporate for the first time since leaving the hunting camp as the goateed mandarin , walking ponderously beside him in ceremonial boots , reeled off the mystical-sounding names of the shimmering buildings : the Can-Chanh , the Great Mansion the Palace of the Spirits of the Six Emperors … the Temple of Generations … the Halls of the Splendours and the Moon and the Glory of the Sun — and most mysterious of all to his young impressionable mind , the guarded heart of the citadel , the Tu Cam Thanh , the Purple Forbidden City named after the Purple or Pole Star , the symbolic ruler of the heavens . |
| 3 | Sometimes , he would catch glimpses of wonderful things through the trees : silver wolves slipping like fluid between the gnarled trunks , their eyes the blue of an early autumn sky ; hewkin maidens of astounding loveliness dancing in a spotlight of moonbeams , curling their slim green hands towards him in bird-like gestures ; ghost children with berry-red faces and tomb-black eyes , laughing down at him from high branches . |
| 4 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 5 | It was Wharton 's 14th win in 15 fights — the other bout ended in a draw — but he seemed to be allowing the fight to slip away from him through uncharacteristic casualness in the fifth and sixth rounds . |
| 6 | When I finally caught up with him at Crazy Joe 's Plantation Village , he was in a resigned mood . |
| 7 | Bitterly aware of a deep tide of crimson flooding over her face and body , she could only glare back at him with deep loathing . |
| 8 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 9 | Would she scream insults , or perhaps cling on to him for grim death and beg for another chance ? |
| 10 | Let me just it 's nothing special , it 's only a circle , but if you were to take that for a , as , as an example if you like as a picture of God 's purposes for us , you see the circle is , is , geometrical it 's , it 's , it 's perfect , there is nothing that is odd about it , there is nothing er , there 's no difference about it , it is perfect and that was God 's purpose and God 's plan for you and for me , that our , that our time , our being should be perfect in , in harmony with him , you think of all the things in your life personally , and then think of all the things in the , in the life of your com of our community , those things that mar it , those things that spoil it , those things that stop today be the perfect day for you that 's not God 's purpose for you they 've all come as a product , a direct result of sin , it was n't how God intended it , it was n't how God made it , his plan , his purpose for you and for me was to live and to dwell together with him in perfect harmony for ever , and there |
| 11 | I want to fall in love , she thought , looking away from him with helpless distaste . |
| 12 | There had been a series of photographs showing Adam with a series of women , each one more gorgeous than the last , and each one looking up at him with undisguised adoration . |
| 13 | The scene came back to him with immediate clarity of detail . |
| 14 | As he was handed back into the Tolbooth , there was a bustle at another door — a man 's face , focusing suddenly into familiarity : James , a patch of high colour on each cheekbone , red on white , his hair more grizzled than Cameron remembered , looking ahead of him with wide eyes . |
| 15 | It was only by an act of supreme will that she was finally able to wrench her mouth from his to look up at him with angry , blazing eyes . |
| 16 | She gazed up at him through dazed , unfocused eyes . |
| 17 | His voice was raggedly urgent , and she gazed up at him through cloudy , unfocused eyes . |
| 18 | She gazed up at him in stunned silence . |
| 19 | Then , abruptly , his mouth left her , and she gazed up at him in confused distress , her body still longing for his caress . |
| 20 | Rory gazed helplessly at him through haunted , agonised eyes . |
| 21 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 22 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 23 | Her initial instinct was to hit out at him in violent retaliation , the insults unendurable and unanswerable in any other way , and yet at the same time , some still , small place of recognition at the centre of all that red-hot emotion was acknowledging the kernel of truth hidden within the offensive words . |
| 24 | She gazed back at him in thoughtful silence for a moment , and shook her head doubtfully . |
| 25 | She gazed back at him in wide-eyed horror . |
| 26 | His advance had been laid down for him in definite terms , and he held to it , but taking his own precautions along the way . |
| 27 | During the course of a conversation , her voice would slowly fade away , and she would lapse into silence , staring away from him with blank eyes , a wistful smile on her face . |
| 28 | He was to travel to the end upon the path marked out for him by National Socialism and the saviour of Germany . |
| 29 | The three handsome giants looked down at him with wooden menace . |
| 30 | Her hand stilled as she looked down at him in outraged astonishment . |