Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Mackerel , Ron ! " he whispered to me on the bridge . |
| 2 | He beamed on me like an indulgent father promising a marvellous present off the Christmas tree . |
| 3 | This is a guy who speaks little English , but he buzzes round us like a bee on a rosebush . |
| 4 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |
| 5 | It means living with the perspective that we are in touch with the Lord Whose Son died so that we might enjoy the sort of life that He planned for us at the beginning of Genesis , and living with that perspective and privilege . |
| 6 | Holly saw his face as he passed behind him on the perimeter path , a face that was scraped with despair . |
| 7 | He winked at me with a slight shake of his head . |
| 8 | He winked at her like a cheery market tradesman selling substandard goods , already thinking of the lunch he had planned with an old colleague from the Manchester force . |
| 9 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 10 | He rode beside you in the street car and complained about the traffic and the weather with you . |
| 11 | A few weeks later , whilst visiting St. John 's College , he shared with us about the mutual support within the group and the high priority given to it by its members . |
| 12 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
| 13 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 14 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 15 | ‘ He lunged at us with a knife . |
| 16 | He clung to her like a clammy spider , pulling her down beside him with unexpected strength . |
| 17 | He gazed at them in a kind of wonder as though they were some priceless and irreplaceable treasure , then he slipped them in his pocket . |
| 18 | She drew a breath as he gazed at it for an instant , watching its slow movements , the gentle opening of its tiny mouth as if expressing surprise . |
| 19 | He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky . |
| 20 | ‘ But he thinks of me as a child , someone too unsophisticated and inexperienced for him . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 23 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 28 | He holds to it in a most unsceptical way — that is , with a fair degree of dogmatism . |
| 29 | He moved towards us across the road . |
| 30 | Sometimes Gabriel 's ghost was so physical , so vivid , that Lee would almost cry out to Larry to warn him as he moved through it between the kitchen and the living-room or walked over it as Gabriel lay on the carpet in front of the television . |