Example sentences of "he [vb past] she [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noticed she needed two hands to lift the silver pot . |
| 2 | He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg . |
| 3 | Her first step was to leave the kitchen exactly as he left it ; if he thought she had any intention of clearing his mess up behind him , then Luther was very much mistaken . |
| 4 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 5 | She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said . |
| 6 | He said she wrote better letters than any woman he knew — ‘ only it is a different letter each time you read it . ’ |
| 7 | He loved his little daughter , but he wished she had less energy . |