Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strolling with his owner through a field littered with pebbles and stones , he suddenly spotted one in the crowd that really took his fancy . |
| 2 | To her astonishment , he suddenly prodded her in the ribs . |
| 3 | In fact the car turned out to be a souped-up grease-wagon piloted by an ageing rocker eager to prove he still had it in the nuts . |
| 4 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 5 | In 1720 Boerhaave produced an impressive catalogue of plants in the Leyden Garden , Index alter Plantarum ( 2 vols ) , and under Protea in the Dictionary Miller refers to this work ( he also included it in the bibliography ) . |
| 6 | He also established himself in the Russian trade , which during the French wars offered exceptional opportunities for profit . |
| 7 | He also interested himself in the administration of this seat of learning , the colours of the students ' gowns — scarlet ; and the professors ' — black . |
| 8 | He thinks that he probably overdid it in the gym tonight . |
| 9 | Did you see that ? he nearly shot himself in the butt that time did n't he ? |
| 10 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |
| 11 | Simultaneously he increasingly involved himself in the literary life of London , a change in the balance of his career which began when he made the acquaintance of the poet , Alfred ( later first Baron ) Tennyson [ q.v. ] , who in 1867 commissioned Knowles to design his house in Aldworth , Sussex . |
| 12 | In 1540 , however , although he strongly opposed them in the House of Lords , the Six Articles of Religion were passed by parliament , including those on transubstantiation and celibacy of the clergy . |
| 13 | When she went upstairs he dragged her to the ground and after sitting on her stomach , he twice stabbed her in the cheek with a knife . |
| 14 | Her eyes are mud-coloured ; her eyes changed hue according to the contact lenses she wore ; he never looked her in the eye . |
| 15 | He certainly shot himself in the foot , pulling out of Glastonbury and playing Finsbury Park . |
| 16 | He certainly had it in the early days of Carry On Sergeant . |