Example sentences of "he [verb] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maggie ! ’ he whispered as his eager lips sought hers . |
| 2 | What does he think that his minimum wage would do to it ? |
| 3 | THE father of an alleged rape victim told a jury yesterday of the shock he experienced when his 22-year-old daughter roused him in the middle of the night . |
| 4 | He realized that his own interests were not favoured at school by boys or masters : |
| 5 | He realized that his last chance was to make his captors believe that Donna knew where the book they sought was hidden , whatever it was . |
| 6 | I recall that two years ago at the NFT he announced that his great ambition as a young man had been to become a movie director : now ( aided by director of photography William Lubtchansky and production designer Chloe Obolensky ) he has made a landmark television film . |
| 7 | When he was finally slain in battle , he asked that his severed head be buried facing the ocean so that no foreign armies could set foot in Ireland without him knowing it . |
| 8 | What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified . |
| 9 | Are you s can we j ask Mr Cunnane is he suggesting that I five definition the second line of the policy should be widened ? |
| 10 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 11 | He found that his ready command of French , Italian , German , Turkish , Arabic , Greek , and Albanian , and his personal friendship with many of the key figures in the area , made his presence invaluable to the commander-in-chief , although eyebrows were sometimes raised at his unremittingly pro-Turkish stance . |
| 12 | As time went on he found that his own tastes , especially his interest in music , aligned him more with Vaughan than Minton . |
| 13 | In an 1879 article , the eminent lawyer , journalist and essayist Walter Bagehot agreed that any attempt by women to escape what he regarded as their biological destiny was anti-evolutionary . |
| 14 | There , at Portmore , Taylor completed what he regarded as his greatest work , Ductor Dubitantium , or The Rule of Conscience in all her General Measures , Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Consciences , This work is a manual of casuistry which occupies over 1300 pages of close print . |
| 15 | He feels that art directors often have such set views about the subjects he photographs that his own creativity is suppressed . |
| 16 | No doubt it was very vexatious to Lanfranc , especially since he doubted whether their so-called saints deserved this title at all . |
| 17 | He winced when his wounded arm was touched . |
| 18 | He accepts that his contrary nature sometimes irritated the other members but feels his sacking contained an element of Gedge wanting to remove a strong influence from the group , an influence often opposed to his own . |
| 19 | He promised that his new government would issue an economic statement early in 1992 . |
| 20 | More specifically , he puts the young reader in touch with the French impressionists in his rich illustrations for Charlotte Zolotow 's Mr Rabbit and the lovely present ( although , strangely , he says that his main influence here was the American naturalistic painter , Winslow Homer ) , and with the pop art of cinema and food packaging in In the night kitchen . |
| 21 | ‘ He told that her next responsibility was to be loyal to her husband above all else . |
| 22 | How could he grow when his very being is constructed around the petulant refusal — ‘ I wo n't grow up ’ ? |
| 23 | He noted that its heavy brow-ridges gave it an ape-like appearance , but rejected it as a ‘ missing link ’ because of its large capacity . |
| 24 | When war was first declared , and she was co-opted into the military , he imagined that her first reaction had been that it was typical of these men to mess up her promising career like that . |
| 25 | Certainly he believed that his inner feeling of being most alive , most engaged with real issues , in his contemplative experience , was a gift from God and that his whole integrity depended on his furthering a life-style which he believed enabled him to receive the gift , however strong the opposition he encountered : Above all else I have always longed to sit and concentrate on Christ , and him alone … |
| 26 | To the end of his days , he believed that his ten shillings a week pension kept him , but of course it was my father who kept the two homes going . |
| 27 | Kermode recalls the seminars as occasions of good humour and tolerance , despite sharp intellectual disagreements , and he laments that their humane spirit did not survive later events . |
| 28 | He confirms that his next director 's job will be a project starring Kevin Costner . |
| 29 | He claimed that her private world had been little more than an experiment in frenzy , and that a breakdown had been inevitable . |
| 30 | He claimed that his governing body , the UK Central Council for Nurses and Midwives , recommended that at least two nurses gave out the drugs to patients . |