Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 2 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 3 | Implicit in Paul 's description of another student is the idea that , although the student did n't do what was required , he got round it in such a clever and ingenious way , that he still deserved to do well in it ; indeed , Paul said that ‘ there is less understanding in lab work than there is ingenuity ’ . |
| 4 | She liked Peter 's smooth , clean skin , and his childhood-smelling hair , and the way he gazed at her with huge eyes without his glasses . |
| 5 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 6 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 7 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 8 | Mention is also made of his lease of the customs and the way ‘ he presided over them with singular liberality towards those of higher rank ’ . |
| 9 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 10 | In verse 27 we read ‘ And beginning at Moses and all the prophets , he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . ’ |
| 11 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 12 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 13 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 14 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 15 | He came towards her with outstretched hand . |
| 16 | He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road . |
| 17 | He turned on me with one of his nastiest looks . |
| 18 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 19 | He was forced to sell his Thames-side mansion at Bray , Berkshire , for £1.5million — £700,000 less than he paid for it in 1988 . |
| 20 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 21 | He contracted with him in 1775 to come to the capital , and put him with M. Francoeur , to conduct [ battre la mesure ] . |
| 22 | He conversed with them on all matters connected with their business and had his trouble often many times repeated with the useful wrinkles he gained . |
| 23 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 24 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 25 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 26 | " Beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . " |
| 27 | He waved behind him towards one of the French windows that led out to the formal gardens surrounding the palace . |
| 28 | He called to her from one crowded floor to the other , ‘ Any luck ? ’ |
| 29 | They talked sex , the way he talked about it to many people with whom he grew close in a working relationship . |
| 30 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |