Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flaubert 's Dictionary offers a course in irony : from entry to entry , you can see him applying it in various thicknesses , like a cross-Channel painter darkening the sky with another wash . |
| 2 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |
| 3 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 4 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 5 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 6 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 7 | He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation . |
| 8 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 9 | five in the second half , bloody hell three goals in three minutes , fifty five , fifty seven , fifty eight Don Goodman this bloke got a hat-trick , he got it within fifteen minutes |
| 10 | Captain 11 times , he repaid them with 3915 runs , 12 centuries , an average of 43.98 , and an adhesiveness more commonly found in tubes of Araldite . |
| 11 | If he knew the path blindfold after one month , how well would he know it after fourteen years ? |
| 12 | He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed . |
| 13 | He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting . |
| 14 | Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers . |
| 15 | He covers it with both hands . |
| 16 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 17 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 18 | If you want children now , and he wants them in five years , or you want two and he wants six , you can probably reach a compromise . |
| 19 | HE WOOED her with skew-whiff quotes from Shakespeare , pranced about in Chelsea football kit — minus the shorts — then bedded her on a futon with all the stamina of an 18-year-old . |
| 20 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 21 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 22 | erm And he describes them in these terms because of course this is how he sees them from different angles while rounding a series of bends on the road , so that in fact he describes the movement which his senses perceive , not the solid immobility to which his intellect testifies . |
| 23 | He surveyed her through narrowed eyes . |
| 24 | He ate it with some biscuits , getting it down fast , his face close to the plate , his fork-hand hooking round to beat illness to the punch . |
| 25 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 26 | He studied her with narrowed eyes , then brushed a cool palm across her forehead to smooth the frown imprinted there . |
| 27 | He studied her with narrowed eyes . |
| 28 | He studied her with glittering eyes , his face darkly flushed . |
| 29 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 30 | He endowed it with vast lands and rights , including tithes of silver and other rights of tribute from the Slavs . |