Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 2 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 3 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 4 | Implicit in Paul 's description of another student is the idea that , although the student did n't do what was required , he got round it in such a clever and ingenious way , that he still deserved to do well in it ; indeed , Paul said that ‘ there is less understanding in lab work than there is ingenuity ’ . |
| 5 | She liked Peter 's smooth , clean skin , and his childhood-smelling hair , and the way he gazed at her with huge eyes without his glasses . |
| 6 | " He thinks of me as such . " |
| 7 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 8 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 9 | Whenever I go into his kennel it 's a toss-up whether he escapes or not ; he wins about one in fifteen times . |
| 10 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 11 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 12 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 13 | Mention is also made of his lease of the customs and the way ‘ he presided over them with singular liberality towards those of higher rank ’ . |
| 14 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 15 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 16 | Why had he looked at her like that ? |
| 17 | I used to think he behaved like someone with constant PMT — irrational and unpredictable to an alarming degree . |
| 18 | What can he do for anyone in that graveyard of a city except catch their rot and pass it on to us in the long run ? |
| 19 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 20 | In verse 27 we read ‘ And beginning at Moses and all the prophets , he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . ’ |
| 21 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 22 | when he 's mad , he grabs at it like that and whips it |
| 23 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 24 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 25 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 26 | He came towards her with outstretched hand . |
| 27 | Why was he looking at her like that , with that little smile that suggested he knew something she did not ? |
| 28 | He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road . |
| 29 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ she cried , staring horrified at him , ‘ how dare he speak to me like that ! |
| 30 | ‘ How dare he speak to me like that ? |