Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned on me with one of his nastiest looks . |
| 2 | He was forced to sell his Thames-side mansion at Bray , Berkshire , for £1.5million — £700,000 less than he paid for it in 1988 . |
| 3 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 4 | He contracted with him in 1775 to come to the capital , and put him with M. Francoeur , to conduct [ battre la mesure ] . |
| 5 | He calls for me at nine , |
| 6 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 7 | He waved behind him towards one of the French windows that led out to the formal gardens surrounding the palace . |
| 8 | He called to her from one crowded floor to the other , ‘ Any luck ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
| 10 | The man at her side wore sea boots and a thick white sweater , and he looked at her with one eyebrow raised , a small , teasing smile lifting the corners of his mouth . |
| 11 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 12 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 13 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 14 | We naturally renewed our invitation as soon as we learnt of the new arrangements proposed by the English Club , and he wrote to me on 25 November 1935 on Criterion writing paper : |
| 15 | He sat in it for fourteen hours a day , hoping to get about £2,000 for all the appeals which lay before him . ’ |
| 16 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |