Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all the teachers , I had a one-year contract renewable at Clive 's discretion , which in my case he found himself unable to exercise . |
| 2 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 3 | She wore nothing beneath other than cami-knickers , but before they followed her dress he nuzzled her graceful neck , and stroked her striking red hair . |
| 4 | Still holding her arms he searched her flushed features , wondering , wondering . |
| 5 | He then goes on to say that after her death he loved her more than when she was alive — this leads us into a trap , for we begin to feel that the old man was a ghoulish sentimentalist . |
| 6 | With his dirk he cut her free . |
| 7 | Clasping a pencil impotently between his fingers he clenched his free hand into a fist and dug his knuckles into the table so that he would n't cry . |
| 8 | When he had spent all his money he found himself alone and destitute . |
| 9 | As her arms went around his neck he held her close . |
| 10 | Heaving his body up to his feet he left his cool sanctuary and ambled over towards them . |
| 11 | It was his grandparents he spent his first Christmas with . |
| 12 | In his whole life Henry II never fought a battle ; not did Philip until 1214 and although that battle , at Bouvines , turned out to be the victory which crowned his career he did his best to avoid it . |
| 13 | In introducing his characters he follows his usual method of direct statement in thumbnail sketches of red-haired Judd , the slow-witted giant Brett , ruthless , brilliant Wick and the plodding conformer Stringy . |
| 14 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |
| 15 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 16 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 17 | But when he gets to his destination he swaps his turbocharged Navajo for a motorised skateboard . |
| 18 | When he was arrested in his house he found it impossible to parry any longer such a mass of events , and surrendered to them . |
| 19 | Like all his colleagues he dismisses their legendary toughness . |