Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a drink and went to bed , and afterward he talked to her about deals and projects . |
| 2 | So he talked to you about it , McLeish thought , and saw Catherine register the same point . |
| 3 | Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years . |
| 4 | Coffin and Gabriel ( it was surprising how quickly he thought of them as a couple ) . |
| 5 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 6 | Seb 's apparent resignation to the fact that Anna was to marry Nahum did nothing to ease the pain he felt whenever he thought about it during the next few days . |
| 7 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 8 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 9 | Now he laid about him in his denunciations of England 's political leaders and institutions . |
| 10 | Now he came towards her with his hands outstretched . |
| 11 | I , I just ask him if , and it , the question that I 'm interested in the answer to , like how did it go ? and , now he talks at me for an hour until Diane comes in and says enough Vaughany , cos she can see I sort of trying to edge away |
| 12 | Now he stared at her in a mixture of surprise , guilt , appreciation and gladness . |
| 13 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 14 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 15 | The count 's cold voice and his return to formality assured Maggie that he had seen this small action and now he sat beside her with a set look on his face that told her he might very well not speak for the whole of the journey . |
| 16 | As she got out he burrowed into her like some nesting beast . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , does n't he talk to you about her ? |
| 18 | " Did n't he talk to you at all ? " |
| 19 | Thankfully he landed on it for a moment , moving his body back and forth to keep balance with the stress of the wind and peering about him . |
| 20 | God does n't stand over us like an angry judge wanting to convict us and sentence us ; rather he watches over us with love and tenderness , always willing to forgive us for our misdemeanours and mistakes . |
| 21 | Occasionally , he took his hand off the gear lever and reached out for hers , and sometimes he glanced towards her with a look so full of tenderness that she felt she could weep for joy . |
| 22 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 23 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 24 | Then he said to me in English , ‘ I have written answers to the two questions you sent me , ’ and opened the file . |
| 25 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 26 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 27 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 28 | Robyn was suddenly finding breathing quite a problem ; she was n't sure if she was anywhere near able to reply — not when he looked at her like that , not when his body was so close to hers . |
| 29 | She found it impossible to collect her thoughts when he looked at her like that . |
| 30 | In any case , the clear separation of the Bank from all others was well enough indicated by Lord North in 1781 when he referred to it as " a part of the constitution " and " to all intents and purposes the public exchequer " . |