Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 2 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed . |
| 5 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 6 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 7 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 8 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 9 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 10 | Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 13 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 14 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 18 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 20 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 22 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 23 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 24 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 25 | He surveyed her through narrowed eyes . |
| 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 it with growing distaste . |
| 30 | He endowed it with vast lands and rights , including tithes of silver and other rights of tribute from the Slavs . |