Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 3 | He gaped at me in silly bliss . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 6 | He came towards her with outstretched hand . |
| 7 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 8 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 9 | His memories of Sarah were as strong as ever , but he thought of her with mixed emotions . |
| 10 | He thought of her with shocked tenderness and a kind of sad humility . |
| 11 | He was wearing his captain 's uniform with meticulous correctness but with a consciously satirical air , ‘ as though he thought of it as fancy dress . ’ |
| 12 | He advanced towards me in aggressive style . |
| 13 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |
| 14 | He looked at me with confident contempt . |
| 15 | He looked at me with bright eyes , unperplexed . |
| 16 | He looked at me with yellow feral eyes . |
| 17 | And he looked at me with full concentration . |
| 18 | He looked at her through narrowed eyes , then he stood up . |
| 19 | He looked at her with sardonic amusement which deepened when she quickly looked away . |
| 20 | He looked at her with new respect , the way they always did when she said something like that . |
| 21 | He looked at her with hard eyes that seemed to see every thought she had ever had . |
| 22 | He looked at her with big , brown , sad eyes . |
| 23 | He looked at her with hunted eyes . |
| 24 | He looked at her with troubled eyes , but she could not know how much his answer was going to hurt . |
| 25 | He looked at her with slow deliberation , and she felt her breathing deepen . |
| 26 | He looked at her in apparent perplexity . |
| 27 | He looked at it with intense concentration for a few moments , then left the room . |
| 28 | A computer crystal had appeared in his hand , and he looked at it in mild bemusement , as if it were a fish , or a coloured party hat . |
| 29 | The boy amid the ruins could have been no more than 12 years old and he looked at us with genuine disinterest , sitting on a broken office swivel chair in the middle of rue Trablos , scruffy brown hair on top of a tired , old face . |
| 30 | His expression blank , he stared at her for long moments . |