Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | ‘ I thank God ! ’ said Edward Rochester , ‘ and ask Him to help me live a better life in future ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You Americans always go for the corny ones , ’ he says , but he plays it just the same , and he delivers a good strong solo at that . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , he rubs me up the wrong way . |
| 5 | Cos he chucked one away the other day because it had a little chip in it . |
| 6 | Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden . |
| 7 | He led her along a cold flagged corridor now , where the walls gleamed faintly with phosphorescence , and where , although wall sconces flared bravely , the light was greenish and lack-lustre , so that it was rather like walking under water . |
| 8 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 9 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 10 | ‘ But to my surprise , he phoned me back a few days later , and offered to help me . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 12 | He showed me where the little oil level was . |
| 13 | Then , both quickly and suddenly , he turned to the Reverend-who was now holding before him a photograph , of which he allowed us only the briefest glimpse . |
| 14 | He went to the bar in the corner of the lounge and he poured us both a stiff whisky and soda . |
| 15 | Maggie now beckoned him towards her , and some what reluctantly he followed her along a short passage and into a long sun-lit kitchen , where a woman was standing at a wooden table mixing some ingredients in a bowl . |
| 16 | And yet , self-denied , he was still dominant , rampant male , she the one reduced to mindless begging for the release she now knew could only ever be temporary because she was an addict already , enslaved by him as he fed her again the fatal taste , the bitter-sweet of his passion , and her own . |
| 17 | He kidnaps her in the hope that she will accept and return his affections and when he ties her up the sexual and emotional metaphors of the title abound . |
| 18 | But he kissed her just the same . |
| 19 | There 's no record for Chris Griffiths — but he enjoyed it just the same . |
| 20 | I 'll believe he loved me just a little at least , thought Fenella , sitting quite still on her horse and looking about her . |
| 21 | Her drenched hair stranded her face , her pale lilac dress clung to her body , her eyelashes divided like a starfish as he pulled her out a second time . |
| 22 | He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot . |
| 23 | He guided us along a functional passage or three , then finally into a large open area where he halted — obviously to let the full impact hit us . |
| 24 | He sent me there the other day to pick up his reading glasses . |
| 25 | He rarely heard from his mother , but he rang her each Christmas morning , wherever he was , and on her birthday , and he sent her maybe a dozen postcards a year . |
| 26 | At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time . |
| 27 | She had worked for Mair as his PA for the last three years and he knew her now no better than on that morning when she had sat in this same office being interviewed for the job . |
| 28 | Then he asks them why the Irish were allowed to starve then and Africans now . |
| 29 | ‘ He gave me quite a stern lecture on the subject . |
| 30 | ‘ If the Scottish Secretary breaches the written undertaking he gave us then the next letter he should write is his resignation letter . ’ |