Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pasternak was apparently impressed ; far lesser actors than Nicholson would eventually become began their careers by similar bravado , and he arranged for him to be tested . |
| 2 | We are saying at the liturgy we come into God 's presence , we speak with him , offer him our thanks and praise , open our hearts to him especially in our darkest moments and he speaks to us of his love and grace . |
| 3 | We naturally renewed our invitation as soon as we learnt of the new arrangements proposed by the English Club , and he wrote to me on 25 November 1935 on Criterion writing paper : |
| 4 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 5 | Each gets a final polish with his cloth , and he grins into them as if they were mirrors . |
| 6 | His face was covered in dirt and he grinned at us in a rather frightened way . |
| 7 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 8 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's a wheeler-dealer and he came across it in a house where he was doing some plastering , ’ said Walton , who used a similar one when he played in the 1981 Walker Cup match in America . |
| 10 | In April 1940 Colonel Holland put Collin Gubbins in charge of the Independent Companies and he went with them to Norway , where through no fault of Collin Gubbins much — if not all — of his and the ISTDC 's teachings were ignored . |
| 11 | Eliot had a bad attack of bronchitis in June , which forced him to stay in bed for a week , but in July his sister , Marian , and a niece arrived from America and he went with them to Suffolk for ten days — the first holiday he had been able to take all year . |
| 12 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 13 | I do n't know Guy liked it and he went in it without anything on . |
| 14 | She walked away with a poise unmatched by any woman of his acquaintance , and he stared after her with angry fascination . |
| 15 | And he looked at me with full concentration . |
| 16 | ‘ We talked about it , ’ said Jenny , ‘ because I told him frankly that I was in love with Jamie , and he looked at me as if I needed my head examined ! ’ |
| 17 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
| 18 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 19 | I watched his face as he blinked rapidly and he looked at me in disgust , or was it disbelief ? |
| 20 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 21 | The man at her side wore sea boots and a thick white sweater , and he looked at her with one eyebrow raised , a small , teasing smile lifting the corners of his mouth . |
| 22 | Carrie said , thinking of the things Hepzibah had told her , how he 'd worked all his life and had no help from anyone , and he looked at her with surprise . |
| 23 | By now her cheeks were flaming and he looked at her with an almost analytical expression on his face . |
| 24 | The boy amid the ruins could have been no more than 12 years old and he looked at us with genuine disinterest , sitting on a broken office swivel chair in the middle of rue Trablos , scruffy brown hair on top of a tired , old face . |
| 25 | A computer crystal had appeared in his hand , and he looked at it in mild bemusement , as if it were a fish , or a coloured party hat . |
| 26 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 27 | The door was shut and he banged on it with his knuckles two or three times before he heard a movement inside and the door opened . |
| 28 | She led Midnight to a clear patch and then let him walk on the long rein , so that she stayed still and he walked round her in a circle at the end of the rein . |
| 29 | Clare was in the bathroom , and he waited for her at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 30 | And he laughed at her like a boy . |