Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The media spotlight shone on him most harshly when he left Marillion . |
| 2 | He surfaced , briefly , but the swell rolled him over and drove him down again before he 'd even had time to draw breath . |
| 3 | She twined her arms so tightly round his neck that he almost choked , pulling him down so that he overbalanced and fell on top of her . |
| 4 | Richard was already a good shot , a patient fisherman and a brave , if occasionally reckless , rider , but competence in all these sports had come to him so easily that he had no interest in practising them . |
| 5 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 6 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 7 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 8 | It has happened in France , Cameron felt like saying , and then the thought of the gulf between France and Scotland came over him so dauntingly that he suffered a backwash of despair . |
| 9 | These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his . |
| 10 | To his surprise , she did not reply but looked at him so vaguely that he inferred that she had not heard him . |
| 11 | Sien had ‘ that Dolorosa expression ’ which had affected him so deeply when he had seen it depicted in the picture Woman in Mourning . |
| 12 | He had gone out for air while Mary reverted to her servant role , but an impulse had taken him much further than he anticipated and now that he was on the shoreline he knew that he had followed an instinct which was directing him to resolve this business with Mary . |
| 13 | The butler was arguing with a tall fair man , threatening to send for the footmen to turn him away physically if he persisted in demanding to see the person who was refusing access to everyone , and particularly to anyone answering to the name of Cochrane . |
| 14 | Well I 'll see him anyway definitely when he comes back . |
| 15 | Maggie saw him more clearly as he stepped forward . |
| 16 | At this point I feel honour bound to remind Mister C that he 's talking to a journalist , that what might be an affectionate insult from his friends will probably piss him off massively when he sees it in print . |
| 17 | you know sort of ooh he 's got ta be a poof so they er duff him up just cos he happens |
| 18 | They picked him up there but he shook them off . ’ |
| 19 | His palms were sweating , his forehead was wet and itching , he felt shivery , his voice was shaky and his heart was beating fast ; they were cooking , him with the Microwave Gun , bathing him in its evil radiations , heating him up so that he broke out in a lathering sweat and looked like a nervous kid . |
| 20 | Behind him , Farquhar propped him up unobtrusively as he swayed slightly , his glazed expression half-hidden by his neatly-brushed beard . |
| 21 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 22 | One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’ |
| 23 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 24 | He did n't mind what Jack knew about him , within reason , that is , although he had ceased to confide in him as absolutely as he had in the days when they passed through Kingsmarkham Primary School together . |
| 25 | ‘ His father pointed them out to him often enough and he knew that things would drop on him from a great height if he put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 26 | And I have smacked him really hard when he 'd nearly had me crying right ? |
| 27 | Erm and also from er Alan MP from he er thanked us for inviting er him here today but he says , unfortunately I already have a previous engagement in London , and so will be unable to join you on this occasion . |
| 28 | That same mood was on him even now as he stood there looking up at the house . |
| 29 | It amused him even more and he looked down at her quizzically as she wrenched her arm from his grasp . |
| 30 | I first met with Arnie it must 've been ‘ 44 , I did n't get to know him well then but he came out of that with one hell of a name as a field man . |