Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a guy who speaks little English , but he buzzes round us like a bee on a rosebush . |
| 2 | ‘ But he thinks of me as a child , someone too unsophisticated and inexperienced for him . ’ |
| 3 | He thinks of it as a link in ‘ the great chain of Being ’ , a medieval idea which survived into the eighteenth century ( see A. O. Lovejoy 's book of the same title ) . |
| 4 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 5 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 6 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 7 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 9 | He holds to it in a most unsceptical way — that is , with a fair degree of dogmatism . |
| 10 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're not going to pay skilled workers $18 an hour to clean phone booth ’ , he says to me in an aggressive tone of voice . |
| 12 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 13 | I want him sent home and put to bed feeling good so that when he gets to me in the mornings , he 's feeling good ’ . |
| 14 | He sounds to me like a man who 's running scared … ’ |
| 15 | He takes to it as a duck takes to water . |
| 16 | He feels for it on the roof . |
| 17 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
| 18 | He leans above her like a leafy bough |
| 19 | He frames the petitions in our lips ; and he prays within us to the Father , with sighs too deep for words . |
| 20 | I , I just ask him if , and it , the question that I 'm interested in the answer to , like how did it go ? and , now he talks at me for an hour until Diane comes in and says enough Vaughany , cos she can see I sort of trying to edge away |
| 21 | A guy called Rufus — who I know because he lives round here — he talks to me like an uncle : ‘ Let me tell you why we here . |
| 22 | Gazza , who will be watched by England No 2 Lawrie Mcmenemy tonight , said : ‘ Luigi could n't get in the side because of Maradona but he talks about him with no jealously , only admiration . |
| 23 | Your worships , Mr works for Wallbank aerials in Worley and he works for them as an engineer his vehicle was erm something that he did use for work , but unfortunately as a result of the accident his has been written off and he has n't yet been able to er , replace it and so he 's having to be erm er , chauffeured by the company to do his er his work . |
| 24 | Your Worships Mr works for in Worley and he works for them as an engineer . |
| 25 | The way that most materialists try to reconcile their flight from behaviourism with their materialist world picture is to say that when V sees something , and BS observes V 's brain , BS knows everything about V 's mental states that V himself knows , but that he knows about it in a different way . |
| 26 | It will make a lovely picture he yells at me above the crashing noise . |
| 27 | He comes to us with a distinguished career in a technologically-orientated industry and I and my board colleagues look forward to working with him in taking AEA forward through an extremely important period in our development . |