Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 4 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 5 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 6 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 7 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 8 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 11 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 13 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 15 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 16 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 17 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 18 | He studied it with growing distaste . |
| 19 | ‘ You are looking at a genuinely reformed character , ’ he assured her with soft intensity , his gaze darkening as his eyes roved hungrily over her flushed cheeks , then down to the open neck of her checked blouse where her breasts were crushed against his chest . |
| 20 | And then his mouth fell to hers and he consumed her with hungry possession . |
| 21 | He had been so gentle , controlling his own need while he readied her with exquisite subtlety and patience . |
| 22 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 23 | ‘ You 're doing no such thing , ’ he informed her with dangerous calm . |
| 24 | ‘ My mother did no such thing ! ’ he informed her with aggressive force . |
| 25 | He ordered them with grim concentration . |
| 26 | The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened . |
| 27 | He surrounded them with barbed wire . |
| 28 | He heard her laughing-with real amusement as he went up the stairs once more . |
| 29 | I only had to deal with a couple of vicious assaults over the telephone when the magazine I was writing for decided he was too dodgy to get involved with and , with mind-boggling nerve , he threatened us with legal action for breach of contract . |
| 30 | We 're going to survive by being violent' — he expressed it with passionate intensity . |