Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 5 | She closed her eyes and arched blindly against him , let him guide her into another kind of darkness , where that unknown vortex of emotion , that powerful pull of attraction between them swirled and hypnotised , and this time the stars behind her eyelids were brilliant but softly incandescent , fireworks of intense delight , bursting in her head … |
| 6 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 7 | This was his first mainline trip and he was grateful to Sam for his advice and also for him taking him on this trip . |
| 8 | Summarize those needs cos there may be more than one and tell him what you 're gon na do , what is the plan of attack , when you 're gon na see the guy again and when we do our business building up , you can take it back to erm the benefits of him introducing us to other people by keeping policy charges down and increasing bonuses whenever possible , cos it 's in his benefit he introduces us to others so we do n't have to advertise , or very very rarely advertise . |
| 9 | I knew there was n't any point in asking him to return them at this stage . |
| 10 | She was standing straight , looking in his direction but seemingly through him , and the strange look on her face brought him around fully , and he was about to speak , not with the intention of giving her the true version of why he wanted to volunteer , for it was n't in him to hurt her to that extent , but she turned from him and , quietly opening the door , went out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 13 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 14 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 15 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 16 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 17 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 18 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 19 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 20 | He led her into another room , and there listened , with a good deal of amazement , to Rose 's account of her extraordinary conversation with Nancy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 23 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " . |
| 26 | Although agreeing that this approach raises value issues ( his first question ) , he thinks it of limited use in generating a range of curriculum alternatives ( second question ) , that it ignores the effects of choosing particular courses of action ( third question ) , and does not facilitate an examination of teacher 's common sense beliefs and opinions ( fourth question ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 29 | If he knew the path blindfold after one month , how well would he know it after fourteen years ? |
| 30 | He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed . |