Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |
| 2 | A man who receives an electric shock does not ask himself whether he believes in the form of energy known as electricity . |
| 3 | The lavish reception afforded to Fidel Castro himself when he went to the Soviet Union the following year is well known , and it was during this visit that he was guaranteed economic concessions , notably a rise in the price paid for Cuban sugar . |
| 4 | " And now I suppose it 'll be my fault the heating has n't got better immediately , " he muttered to himself as he walked along the narrow passageway . |
| 5 | He said it aloud to himself as he trudged up the stairs . |
| 6 | Denis smiled to himself as he thought of the jingle going the rounds : |
| 7 | Sacked three times from the county football manager post , McEniff can be forgiven the odd pinch of himself as he takes in the widespread adulation accorded to him now everywhere he goes . |
| 8 | " We 'll get it right now though , " he said to himself as he ascended through the castle 's twisted interior , and the light faded and the cold grew more sharp , and he gathered his furs more closely around him . |
| 9 | Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out . |
| 10 | I 'm not that bad but Stuart can beat me if he gets in the cooking mood , . |
| 11 | Maxim asked carefully : ‘ Did he see you before he went to the country , when he first came back from Germany ? ’ |
| 12 | Geoffrey Moorhouse uses Bury as his pivot : he explores it fact by fact , family by family ; this little town in the moors bore a hideous amount of the slaughter in the Dardanelles , no matter what your Australian neighbour may tell you as he leans on the bar and his legend . |
| 13 | It is a practical objection not one of principle , and I believe that it was the fundamental reason that Lord Reid , for example , considered the general rule to be a good one as he said in the passage my noble and learned friend has cited from Beswick v. Beswick [ 1968 ] A.C. 58 , 74A . |
| 14 | In light of this , he expected no reward but this day he knew he had received one as he stood at the door of a ward of children on whom he had operated , now sleeping peacefully and painlessly . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's a wheeler-dealer and he came across it in a house where he was doing some plastering , ’ said Walton , who used a similar one when he played in the 1981 Walker Cup match in America . |
| 16 | Maggie braced herself as he reached for the top of the blanket , which he then drew down to reveal a corpse 's face . |
| 17 | Trent felt her retreat further inside herself as he shouted through the organ howl , ‘ There 's a chance we can make our way upriver . ’ |
| 18 | More bother to me since he went in the Army . |
| 19 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 20 | How can I make him see his colleagues will look down on him if he says in the same old rut ? |
| 21 | He asked him if he belonged to the loyalist section of the population and he replied that he did . |
| 22 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 23 | She rubbed him until he ejaculated into the bathwater . |
| 24 | He walks off and I watch him till he disappears round the corner . |
| 25 | I stood beside him while he cursed at the keys and thumped the side window . |
| 26 | He was relaxed , a contrast to the tension which had gripped him while he spoke of the MacQuillan calumny . |
| 27 | The vicar managed to catch him before he fell to the floor , and he was removed to his home , where he died on the Friday morning , 8 September . |
| 28 | In newsomes situation I would have maybe challenged him before he got to the box and maybe given a foul away in the process . |
| 29 | ‘ You think Newley checked back with him before he went to the cottage ? ’ |
| 30 | No , wait a minute , I 've a better idea ; she might be able to get Paul to bring them if she can catch him before he leaves for the airport . ’ |