Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 2 | He did n't look very happy , but then , when had she ever seen him look anything except cool or irritable , or arrogantly amused ? |
| 3 | Flaubert 's Dictionary offers a course in irony : from entry to entry , you can see him applying it in various thicknesses , like a cross-Channel painter darkening the sky with another wash . |
| 4 | With the agreement of Tony 's parents , Tony would follow a partial timetable for between two and three weeks , allowing him to phase himself into full attendance at the school . |
| 5 | Looking up with a gasp , she saw him watching her with narrowed blue eyes , his mouth a hard line . |
| 6 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |