Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Dazedly he saw them by the sagging chaise-longue .
2 Naturally he cribbed it for the title of a pamphlet , when what I actually meant by it was some advice .
3 Thoughtfully he thrust it into the base of a bush a few feet from the path and covered it with dried leaves .
4 Perhaps he saw them as a threat .
5 But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well .
6 Obviously he put it across a lot better than what I did but the actual message of getting that across
7 so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it
8 So he clothed her in the Waters of Life . ’
9 So he walked him round the beat until the sergeant found him .
10 So he left me in a stew of doubt .
11 So he told me in the diner to which we resorted for coffee and blueberry pie .
12 So he raised it through the land army , for the transfer , it was alright with the farmers and everybody else .
13 So he tapped him on the shoulder and Dad being a big chap with big chest just said er S Do you know my lad ?
14 So he took me to a butcher shoppe with a bacon slicer in it and you know it turned out that he was right aftr all .
15 So he took her down the hill again .
16 So he started me on the on politics , and he was very good .
17 So he marked it with a paperclip for copying , put it back in its manila folder , ‘ wiped off all my fingerprints ’ , and hid it ‘ out of an abundance of caution ’ in the stack of other papers to be copied .
18 So he threw her in the river .
19 Faced with this united German front , Napoleon III realized that for him nothing of substance was likely to emerge from the meeting and so he turned it into an exercise in public relations .
20 Well he , he , he given them a free cup of coffee it 'll be alright , but he did n't , he gave , the machine took ten P pieces so he provided them with the ten P pieces to put in and then when it was full up he 'd empty it out and give them all ten P pieces back
21 Once inside he left her in a dim , dingy room where she sat with her bundle and the firm belief that the cruel joke would soon be over and she 'd be taken back to her ward .
22 Finally he grabbed him by the collar , and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal .
23 Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening .
24 Quickly he led her to the saddle , pushing her face down onto its hard smooth surface , his hands caressing her intimately all the while , keeping her mind dark , her senses inflamed .
25 And by early autumn , Mr Major was preparing for the worst — and yesterday he delivered it in a statement to the Commons .
26 Sheepishly he collected them from the back door and they started out again .
27 Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess .
28 A little later he crooked her in the shelter of his arms and said , ‘ You 've no idea what it took for me to come over to see you that first time . ’
29 Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented .
30 ‘ We 're nearly there , ’ he said soothingly , and a few moments later he escorted her through the elaborate palm Court which was the entrance to the Royal Hotel .
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