Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 2 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 3 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 4 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 5 | He led her into another room , and there listened , with a good deal of amazement , to Rose 's account of her extraordinary conversation with Nancy . |
| 6 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 9 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 10 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 11 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 12 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 13 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 14 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 15 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He entered her without further ado . |
| 18 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 19 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 21 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 23 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 24 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 25 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 26 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 27 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 28 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 29 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 30 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |