Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , on the ’ liability for others ' acts ’ point , the Bill contains safeguards — as my hon. and learned Friend knows from his study of it — when the accused can show that the aggravating event occurred before he committed his basic offence or that he was not near the vehicle at the time . |
| 2 | His brows rose as he turned his brown eyes upon her . |
| 3 | He made toys that parodied her innocent amusements and those of her brothers and she trembled when he raised his leonine voice . |
| 4 | ‘ Come on , lazybones , it 's nearly dinner-time , ’ Otley scolded when he brought me some tea up . |
| 5 | Michael Heseltine , Environment secretary and former Prime Ministerial candidatem , was certain which he prefered when he met his Spitting Image Alter Ego . |
| 6 | Yet , in Brooklyn , Beecher acted somewhat differently as Dickens found when he paid his last visit to America in 1868 . |
| 7 | His sad face trembled as he shook his sincere , hurt head and sat down . |
| 8 | He was a great player , and he was just beginning to get the notoriety that he really deserved when he had his terrible car accident . ’ |
| 9 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 10 | And what happened after he visited his Scottish HQ in Edinburgh ? |
| 11 | ‘ I can wait , ’ Jenna sighed as he gathered her close . |
| 12 | He must have liked the sound it made because he gave it another couple for luck ; my courage rising , too , I gave it two more . |
| 13 | She watched as he made his own examination before straightening up . |
| 14 | He would be seeing Caterina again , with her sweet face like a ripe apricot and her almond eyes , and he laughed when he remembered her childish stumblings as she tried to repeat the message to the letter . |
| 15 | Trying to beat the tiredness and the sapping warmth of the room , and his eyes blinked when he wished them clear . |
| 16 | Charlie laughed as he gathered his only son into his arms . |
| 17 | His optimism grew as he made his own assessment of the other candidates . |
| 18 | Dubcek sobbed when he told his stunned nation in an emotional radio address that he and fellow leaders of the Prague Spring had had to bow to overwhelming military force . |
| 19 | Colin Parry , 37 , a personnel officer , wept as he said his 12-year-old son would never be the way he was but they wanted him to live and they would make a life for him . |
| 20 | Some of the 150 or so cast and production crew he gathered together at a local hotel broke down and wept as he confirmed their worst fears . |
| 21 | Charlie smiled as he placed his frozen fingers round the hot mug and sipped slowly to be sure that the simple pleasure lasted . |
| 22 | The prince smiled as he spoke her true name — as if tempting fate , cocking a snook at danger . |
| 23 | In his chapter , ‘ Building on the class reader ’ , Foggin echoes the views of many of the English teachers to whom I spoke when he describes his English teaching as being substantially class reader based for the reason that : |
| 24 | She gasped as he yanked her closer . |
| 25 | One of my slimmers wrote : ‘ My husband says I now have the figure I had when he married me 30 years ago ’ . |
| 26 | The flimsy yellow chair behind Wexford 's rosewood desk creaked as he lowered his heavy body into it . |
| 27 | However , Ronnie Tod 's one-man ambush failed when he dropped his tommy-gun magazine as he cocked the gun , and there was a burst of fire from the Germans . |
| 28 | Robyn asked as he pulled her close to him once again . |
| 29 | She wondered whether he found her desirable in such an assailable position . |
| 30 | ‘ A plant needs air , sunshine , moisture , and certain chemicals — given these it does its own growing ’ , he explained as he amplified his educational stance . |