Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hit towards the halfway line , Alan the sole defender for Blackburn at the moment , he plays it to his right , forward it goes to now that 's a good ball down the far side of the field , plenty of er men available , 's one of them inside the penalty area , the cross was n't so good from and it 's gon na run harmlessly behind for a goal kick . |
| 2 | Just keep half the gram he lent you for your own use , and sell the rest . |
| 3 | The governor , fearing for his life , drew his sword and attacked Paulus , but his aim was either too feeble or misdirected to be effective , so he plunged it into his own body . |
| 4 | As he prided himself on his fair and honest trading , and the high standards which he always maintained except in extenuating circumstances , the ginger-haired totter had decided he should do the right thing by her . |
| 5 | Whereas Flynn was at the other end of the scale , for , despite his external charm , he really seemed to care little about anybody 's well-being — possibly because he cared nothing for his own . |
| 6 | He — um — he appointed you as his special envoy , you see — gave you carte blanche as far as time was concerned ; in fact he insisted that your entire stay here from day one should be regarded as being on company business . ’ |
| 7 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 8 | As he led them into his large and sunny sitting-room , his scalp gleamed in the light . |
| 9 | Then he tried it on his own |
| 10 | They were not sitting next to each other , luckily , but he found himself opposite her accusing face over drinks and remembered the things he 'd last said to her . |
| 11 | He found it amongst his own but he does n't have a V A C |
| 12 | Between 1925 and 1929 he devoted himself to his regenerative projects . |
| 13 | He fondled her between her long legs for a long time , and she remained still for him . |
| 14 | Would she ? she wondered as he drew her into his special world of sensuality . |
| 15 | ‘ He caught me on my right thigh , my left foot came down and I did the splits . |
| 16 | She raised her hand and stroked his face , and he caught it with his own , turning it over so that it was palm up , and kissing it . |
| 17 | He covers it with his other hand , draws his fists apart and holds them for GUIL . |
| 18 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 19 | An amusing parallel in the film business is an account given by the director Ken Russell of how he sold the idea of making a film about Tchaikowsky ; he described it to his potential backers as the story of a homosexual who fell in love with a nymphomaniac . |
| 20 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 21 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 22 | He used it to his best advantage last week , when he raised the ghastly spectre of Belgium to warn unwary voters of the dangers of coalition governments and proportional representation . |
| 23 | Osborne too felt his viola was mightier than the machine-guns : he used it as his only protection , making a conscious decision not to wear a flak jacket . |
| 24 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 25 | The clothier who wrote in 1760 that high wages made his workfolk " scarce , saucy and bad " was seeking to impress no one , for he entered it in his private diary . |
| 26 | He loves everything about his new uniform . |
| 27 | He educated himself in its extensive library , and , though always solitary , he was curious about everything , a fascinating conversationalist and a lover of practical jokes . |
| 28 | He told her about his old school . |
| 29 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 30 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |