Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] he [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since he has been in Deerbolt , he has passed his GCSE 's and is now trying to get a place catering college when he gets out next year . |
| 2 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
| 3 | Though orthodox in his religious beliefs , Singer deplored the division between the orthodox and reform camps , preached in the reform synagogue in Manchester , and was a supporter of the Jewish Religious Union , forerunner of the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues ; it was only under intense pressure from within the United Synagogue that he broke off this association . |
| 4 | Then we 're at the desk and he leans over all cocky like and actually gets hold of my chin and says , ‘ Why so glum , my fair one ? ’ |
| 5 | The narrator then goes on to tell of this divorcee , Brenda Goring , who arrives in their village and who latches on to his quite mouse of a wife , whom he dearly loves , fills her ears with tales of the fast life she has always led and still leads in visits to London and , worse , is always to be found in his home when he gets back exhausted from the office . |
| 6 | If people coming down from the North wearing British Coal Rugby League jumpers think they 're travelling away from home and the event is rather special , imagine the feelings of an Australian as he goes up that long concourse to the Vatican of the inflated rubber bladder . |
| 7 | We look forward very much to his succession to the Chair , and we wish him very well and I know that he can count on the full support of all the honorary officers , and all of you as members of the Council as he takes on these new responsibilities . |
| 8 | He had a regular mistress and he drew out that money to pay her off before he married the other one . ’ |
| 9 | I explained to him about the boxing-match and the waterfall and he went up close and examined the glass minutely , different areas of it , taking his time . |
| 10 | " The rows started because of money and him going out all the time , " said the woman who arrived in the refuge on the same day as me . |
| 11 | Go put a poultice or something on Simon 's eye before he uses up all the raw meat in the kitchen . ’ |
| 12 | He then asked to speak to me , but I was on the phone so he rang back five minutes later . |
| 13 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 14 | Manor sat back in his office chair as he rolled off these statistics . |
| 15 | Maguire struck Playing Truant 14 blows after the second last with most coming after the final flight as he pulled out all the stops to hold off Angelo 's Double . |
| 16 | For example , if the accused was reconnoitring a home preparatory to burglary , he may not be guilty of this offence if he picks up some ladders which he has found in the garden . |
| 17 | The youth was approached by another man as he walked along High Row and then beaten to the ground . |
| 18 | The way things are going for him right now , he would grab a hat-trick if he played up front . |
| 19 | He had this trick and he had a blow torch and he burned off all this blokes hair . |
| 20 | Forster half rolled , his Uzi trembling in his hand as he got off half a clip at point blank range . |
| 21 | He was a familiar face in the City as he cycled round each evening with his pole , lighting the gas lamps in the streets . |
| 22 | Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians . |
| 23 | Well , I was already in and he came in and just erm I was here and he just suddenly came round that way and he sat down next to Louise and and he said how are you ? |
| 24 | But then Ratagan handed him a battered silver flask with a wink and he spluttered over strong barley spirit , the last of the cold burnt out of him . |
| 25 | Pity he did n't fulfil a promise he made to Darlington Business Venture when he came up last November . |
| 26 | But the Leicestershire player had to be satisfied with gaining a bit more experience at the top level as he went down 3–1 to Tristan Nancarrow , the world No 8 from Australia , in the second round yesterday . |
| 27 | He missed a step so he went down two instead of one . |
| 28 | Joseph scowled back with mock ferocity at his brother as he picked up another glass and he was sipping it more circumspectly when a grinning dark-haired French youth of about eighteen approached them , holding out his hand . |
| 29 | When suffering eye tests in the darkened cubicle at the back of his shop , almost the only thing Henry ever managed to see was the pitying smile on Beamish 's face as he flashed up smaller and smaller letter sequences , all of them probably spelling ‘ You are a fat shortsighted twerp ’ ! |