Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | " He thinks of me as such . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 8 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 9 | Why had he looked at her like that ? |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 12 | when he 's mad , he grabs at it like that and whips it |
| 13 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 14 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 15 | Why was he looking at her like that , with that little smile that suggested he knew something she did not ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ she cried , staring horrified at him , ‘ how dare he speak to me like that ! |
| 18 | ‘ How dare he speak to me like that ? |
| 19 | How dared he look at her like that ? |
| 20 | He conversed with them on all matters connected with their business and had his trouble often many times repeated with the useful wrinkles he gained . |
| 21 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 22 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 23 | " Beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . " |
| 24 | They talked sex , the way he talked about it to many people with whom he grew close in a working relationship . |
| 25 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
| 26 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 27 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 28 | The emotion he generated about him in those moments was a pit of black silence . |
| 29 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 30 | He looked at me with some care . |