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 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now he laid about him in his denunciations of England 's political leaders and institutions . |
| 9 | Now he came towards her with his hands outstretched . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Now he stared at her in a mixture of surprise , guilt , appreciation and gladness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 20 | Then he said to me in English , ‘ I have written answers to the two questions you sent me , ’ and opened the file . |
| 21 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 22 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Yet he took with him to Beirut his old suitcase of deeds and taxes , proof that the Abu Khadras owned their land in Palestine . |