Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | " Mackerel , Ron ! " he whispered to me on the bridge . |
2 | He looks at me for the first time . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
5 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
6 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
7 | The next morning he came with me to the station , and as we waited for the train , we watched the crowds . |
8 | Why does he refuse to meet any groups other than farmers , as he confirmed to me in the House on 17 February ? |
9 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
10 | ‘ Are you married ? ’ he said at once , head turned toward the din from his workmen as he stepped past me over the rubble and put a key into the lock of the , I should have thought , not yet apt to be plundered building . |
11 | 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 ’ . |
12 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
13 | He called to me from the place . |
14 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
15 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
16 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
17 | He looked at me across the room . |
18 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
19 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
20 | He looked from me to the suitcase and back again in amazement . |
21 | He said to me on the phone he did n't know a great deal cos he was just getting it all together . |
22 | he said to me on the train to Richmond |
23 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
24 | On 10 October , having arranged a meeting , he wrote to me about the earlier essay for which he had already arranged generous advanced payment : |
25 | He sat beside me on the wheelbarrow , smoking a cigarette and reading . |
26 | He sat with me on the grass verge and with unsteady hands rolled a cigarette . |
27 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |
28 | ‘ He followed me home , and he pushed past me into the house . |
29 | It will make a lovely picture he yells at me above the crashing noise . |