Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In support of this submission he referred me to Heaven v. Pender ( 1883 ) 11 Q.B.D. 503 and Le Lievre v. Gould [ 1893 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 2 | Before leaving the privy he disinfected it with pine fluid . |
| 3 | He looked white and tired , and the smile he gave her in greeting was strained . |
| 4 | When he went to open the door to Ballater 's knock he greeted him without enthusiasm , annoyed by the interruption . |
| 5 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 6 | When there was little more than half an inch left protruding from the frame he gripped it with thumb and forefinger and started to work it around . |
| 7 | According to Pilkington , ‘ One child he examined had such a lacerated tongue he compared it to sago pudding . ’ |
| 8 | Sarah was trembling with anger and roused to a state of excitement she did n't understand until without warning he stopped her in mid-sentence by kissing her soundly . |
| 9 | And then of course he tells me about punk rock and he was there and he was the meaning of punk rock . |
| 10 | This summer he displayed it at air shows around the UK and in France and went to Malaga in it . |
| 11 | Fenella 's complaints continued to be mostly about the way he treated her on stage . |
| 12 | The way he explained it to Boy , it was one of those moments of giving up , one of those moments when you throw away your still half-full packet of cigarettes as you walk home in the drizzle and you say out loud , well that is it , that is the last time . |
| 13 | I do n't think he conceived ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ as a concept album , but the songs slotted together in a way that it became a concept , and the way he presented it on stage , how he wanted to look , how the boy 's costumes looked ( facsimiles of his — though his were patterned and theirs were simple ) meant that he 'd breathe life into a concept hero . |
| 14 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 15 | That year he gave it under cover to a Milan publisher , Feltrinelli , and in 1958 it appeared in English . |
| 16 | Three days after Calley 's conviction he freed him from jail pending his appeal and allowed him to live in his officer 's quarters . |
| 17 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 18 | It was n't until the launch had vanished around the tip of Vittoriosa , and the soaring golden bulk of Fort St Angelo , that she realised he had n't told her what time he expected her at Casa Sciorto tomorrow evening . |
| 19 | When her father saw the evidence of this sin he condemned her to death . |