Example sentences of "he [vb past] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one . |
| 2 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 3 | He enjoyed educating himself in the things he wanted to know about . |
| 4 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 5 | He denied knowing anything about a plan to abduct the driver or that guns might have been involved . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll save them for later ’ he said stuffing them into a soggy pocket as he squelched up the road alongside me . |
| 7 | She 'd rather he continued seeing her as a thief than that . |
| 8 | He sat watching her from a deep armchair , legs crossed at the ankles , hands lightly clasped . |
| 9 | But there is a wisp of evidence that he considered embarking himself on a fast unto death to bring peace to India . |
| 10 | Indeed , his view of this independent sovereign as purely a pawn in the French political game was never more clearly seen than in 1556 , when he contemplated marrying her to the English nobleman Edward lord Courtenay , in response to the threat that Philip of Spain , then married to Mary Tudor , would give her sister Elizabeth as a bride to Ferdinand of Austria . |
| 11 | Now he stood facing her inside a remote Finnish forest while she gazed back with eyes like the Arctic ice . |