Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [det] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return .
2 He also sent him some of his famed fake letters in the name of ‘ Edna Welthorpe ’ — a character he invented for his own fun and that of the few chosen intimates who were allowed to receive them .
3 He also told me that for some years , two unknown people , evidently strategically placed in big City offices , have been collecting for us all the first-day covers received there .
4 He nearly blew us all to kingdom come once … .
5 He really said it all to me in a comment some years ago : ‘ The ICM must become the accepted mirror of the credit scene , and we must be wary of some things which can break the reflection . ’
6 Once he even knocked them both down the stairs and sent them to bed with no dinner because they had returned with nothing .
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