Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 2 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 3 | Suddenly I became a target for this lunatic , and he began to shower me with machine-gun bullets . |
| 4 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 5 | He refused to swap it with opposite number Willie Carne after the game because he had promised it to the Mirror . |