Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 2 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 3 | He looked at her at that , his eyes almost silvery in the semi-darkness . |
| 4 | Then he brought his blazing eyes unhurriedly to her face and for a long moment she found herself wishing time would stand still ; when he looked at her like that … she swallowed , felt her pulse beating wildly ; his eyes were devouring hers . |
| 5 | Robyn was suddenly finding breathing quite a problem ; she was n't sure if she was anywhere near able to reply — not when he looked at her like that , not when his body was so close to hers . |
| 6 | She found it impossible to collect her thoughts when he looked at her like that . |
| 7 | When we approached the 12 year-old 's little aluminium throne with its torn plastic seat and its bent wheels , he looked at us with that special insouciance of the Lebanese militiaman . |
| 8 | He smiled at her with that lopsided grin and she was undone . |
| 9 | I do n't know if you want them , he said to me like that you see . |
| 10 | The point was — as he explained to me throughout that autumn and the winter that followed — to understand that habit was ritual , and ritual was habit . |