Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ Connelly shouted as he saw the glowing rings and felt their heat . |
| 2 | He stopped when he saw the twisted grin on Luther 's face , and it made him remember with a falling heart that this man was not his real father . |
| 3 | This was the same formula that Harmsworth ( Lord Northcliffe ) used when he launched the Daily Mail in 1896 . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , sir , ’ I said , and retreated as he began the ultimate heresy of sloshing Remy Martin 's finest on to rocks . |
| 5 | Martin 's hands shook as he opened the heavy gate and relocked it behind him . |
| 6 | He sighed as he rang the front doorbell . |
| 7 | ‘ Keep on your belly , ’ he ordered as he grabbed the Greener . |
| 8 | Corbett grinned as he sipped the rich red wine . |
| 9 | The immediate impression of directed dominance did not come from the man 's physique , impressive though that was , McLeish decided as he accepted the offered chair and placed Catherine at the side of the room . |
| 10 | ‘ All you have to do is drop your opposition to my development plans and I 'll take you in as a partner , ’ Sugden urged as he mopped the orange-coloured dribbles off his chin . |
| 11 | He shuddered as he pronounced the last word . |
| 12 | Straightening , she watched as he undid the holding gate , and then held out a hand towards her . |
| 13 | Robyn watched as he scraped the burning embers and logs into it . |
| 14 | He opened his eyes and started as he recognised the white anxious face , staring green eyes and tousled hair of his servant , Ranulf , whom he had last seen in the infirmary of Tynemouth Priory . |
| 15 | Where there had been one figure faintly outlined in the frame of the staging there were now two — one large , obviously Jotan , and one much smaller , a child Alexei thought until he saw the muscular build and shortened legs and realised that Jotan had caught a dwarf . |
| 16 | He knew if he birdied the last he 'd break it . |
| 17 | He knew because he heard the distinctive , never-forgotten thump and jangle of artillery on the move . |
| 18 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |
| 19 | Yanto laughed when he realised the old joker had palmed the sawdust and was allowing it to trickle in such a way as to give the impression that it was trickling from his ear . |
| 20 | He was saddling a fat brown cob and I stared as he led the little animal out , climbed stiffly on to a box and mounted . |
| 21 | He took it and laughed as he counted the few coins . |
| 22 | Slightly breathless , I stood by his side and listened as he addressed the little creatures . |
| 23 | Robyn rested her head on her arms on the sill of the open window and listened as he climbed the spiral staircase . |
| 24 | Despite himself , Bishop shivered when he heard the flat intonation of Tiw Heimdall 's voice . |
| 25 | He had caught cold , or more likely , suffered from an allergy , Trent thought as he remarked the inflamed eyelids that shuttered the eyes and a nose drip that the thin man dipped into a linen handkerchief every half-a-minute — dip , dip , like a skinny waterbird feeding along the tideline . |
| 26 | Those yachts , with their flowing sheer , were the swans , Golden Girl was the barracuda , Trent thought as he recalled the big fish hardly stirring as it circled him . |
| 27 | ‘ A gey driech day , ’ he thought as he adjusted the grey woollen scarf tied as a muffler at his throat and pulled down his large , cloth cap against the wind . |
| 28 | It was much more , he thought as he moved the boiling pan off the stove and on to the floor , trying to ignore the unholy smell of bleach that came off it as it sloshed against the sides of the vessel , that he had simply woken up one morning and realized , to use a phrase a friend had used about someone else 's wife , ‘ what he had got hold of ’ . |
| 29 | Requiem for a monk , Trent thought as he watched the cocaine-addicted mestizo squatting on the cabin top . |
| 30 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |