Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fired — dismissed , ’ she offered a couple of alternatives — only to find that he found her first offering of more interest . |
| 2 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 3 | I was therefore surprised to see that he excluded his own name from the list . |
| 4 | Billie had drifted back to sleep and he shook her awake . |
| 5 | Patrick was just about to ask what she was going to do when he felt something cold touch his scalp — and then it was as if his head had caught fire . |
| 6 | The support of the press was seen as being vital and every manager was expected to ensure that he had his local newspapers on his side , but even this was not enough . |
| 7 | Frequently , moreover , there appears to be little concern that advice should be available to the teacher or headmaster , to ensure that he uses what few resources he has to best effect . |
| 8 | So at home Milton is just one of the others , although he seems to have enough tricks up his sleeve to ensure that he gets his own way most of the time . |
| 9 | For the girl 's eyes , which he was beginning to read as he read his own children 's , had flared briefly in vindictive joy , and again veiled themselves . |
| 10 | We are made to wait while he shows his new toys ; a scarlet tricycle , a pull-along duck , a space-age gun playing the tunes of eight different police sirens when you pull the trigger . |
| 11 | Regulations provide that if local planning authorities are minded to approve a proposal , but judge that it involves a material departure from the provisions of the development plan , they are required to refer the matter to the Secretary of State for him to decide whether he thinks it fit to call in the matter for his own decision . |
| 12 | ISRAELI pilot Isaac Fuchs knew he was going to die when he spoke his last five words . |
| 13 | So little of a reliable nature is known of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life , so prominent is the association of him with Aksaray that it is tempting to think that he passed his whole life there : such certainly is the thrust of the Ottoman sources as well as Melikoff 's article . |
| 14 | There , he was given a plate of magic fairy dust to eat and he ate it all up , feeling strong and happy . |
| 15 | I tried not to cringe when he chewed my left ear making a noise like a pig in a trough . |
| 16 | She wanted to cry his name aloud again , but his mouth was against hers , his hair-roughened chest against the naked globes of her breasts , and she loved him , wanted him , needed him and , as he moved her until her back was on her mattress , she had no objection to make when he removed her only covering from her altogether . |