Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 32 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 33 | He messed us about this weekend did n't he ? |
| 34 | He studied it with growing distaste . |
| 35 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 36 | ‘ 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 . |
| 37 | And then his mouth fell to hers and he consumed her with hungry possession . |
| 38 | It seemed odd that he loathed her with such intensity and yet had made a pass at her . |
| 39 | He had been so gentle , controlling his own need while he readied her with exquisite subtlety and patience . |
| 40 | 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 ! |
| 41 | He fetched it without another word and watched her while she folded sheets of newspaper into firelighters in the thrifty way Gran had taught her . |
| 42 | ‘ You 're doing no such thing , ’ he informed her with dangerous calm . |
| 43 | ‘ My mother did no such thing ! ’ he informed her with aggressive force . |
| 44 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 45 | He ordered them with grim concentration . |
| 46 | The box having been placed upon the table , he ordered it with great eagerness to be opened . |
| 47 | He surrounded them with barbed wire . |
| 48 | He heard her laughing-with real amusement as he went up the stairs once more . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | We 're going to survive by being violent' — he expressed it with passionate intensity . |
| 51 | He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance . |
| 52 | Former model Carol Lawson , 42 , from Park Gate , Hants , refused to hang up on her relationship with neighbour Michael Hughes after he dumped her for another woman . |
| 53 | He repeated it with some commentary in an issue of the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 54 | He called them by this name because , he said , they went ‘ floppy ’ when you shot them . |
| 55 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 56 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 57 | He watched it with intense concentration for a few moments , then left the room . |
| 58 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 59 | Allison turned Book into a League star at the age of 30 when he took him from non-League Bath City to Plymouth Argyle . |
| 60 | The very first film I made with Roy he took me to one side and he said ’ you 've been working a lot in the theatre and you 're playing to the back row of the the dress circle which is right for the theatre . ’ |