Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was his first mainline trip and he was grateful to Sam for his advice and also for him taking him on this trip . |
| 6 | I knew there was n't any point in asking him to return them at this stage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 10 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 11 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 17 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 18 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 19 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 20 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 21 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 22 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 23 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 24 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 25 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 26 | When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running , he accepts it as constructive advice . |
| 27 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 28 | He entered her without further ado . |
| 29 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 30 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |