Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 2 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 3 | He asked it without any apparent sense of its being a stupid question . |
| 4 | Innerd took over as Palace 's captain in 1906 after Ted Birnie had left us and he led us to several marvellous FA Cup triumphs , including the fabulous 1–0 Will at the home of his former club , and League champions , Newcastle United in January 1907 . |
| 5 | Because Nick is ju erm is young and because he associates him with all these dangerous ideas , in genetic engineering and so on , he feels threatened by him . |
| 6 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 7 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 8 | He bestrode me like some stalwart saint of old , defending my prone body with buckler and flaming sword . |
| 9 | He flicked the white silk bow undone , his fingers running through it , inciting shivers of heat to flood her skin as he studied her through those hooded lids , and deliberately stroked one long finger down the nape of her neck and lowered his blue eyes to watch her nipples erect in fierce , unwanted response . |
| 10 | But Rochester did er did er , when he was trying to rebuke himself for committing what was bigamy , and the works , he said , when he compared his own wife , who was really a mental animal because she very bestial the way she bit people , and then , he compared her with this sweet , dewy-eyed Jane , he did give a reason did n't he ? |
| 11 | Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared . |
| 12 | He showed her into another bare cubicle where two hatchet-faced men were scribbling , and pointed to a phone that lay scratched and bruised on the desk . |
| 13 | And why had he told her about that unlocked door ? |
| 14 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 15 | A ruler is bound by the good old law ; if he breaks it in any serious way , his subjects can rebel , and by formal process compel him to obey the law . |
| 16 | He took me through many secret doors and passages , down , down under the Opera House . |
| 17 | He took me round that blooming Argyle Road three times . |
| 18 | Indeed he makes it no secret that he feels he deserves it after all those struggling years . |
| 19 | It is too late now to ask the right hon. Gentleman what he intends to do about that , as he will lose his job over it on 9 April , but can he tell me of any other Government who have allowed their textile industry to bleed to death in that fashion without helping it ? |
| 20 | Knowing Louis 's concern for the Holy Land in 1147 he had led the French army on the Second Crusade — he put it about that all he really wanted to do was put his own house in order , make proper provision for his children , and then he would be off on crusade in his lord 's company . |
| 21 | He put one hand against the wall , close enough to touch a strand of her hair which had pulled free from the cap , and he imprisoned her in that dark corner . |
| 22 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 23 | Edward looked delighted to see them and , after supplying them with drinks , he introduced them to several other guests . |
| 24 | ‘ When I was a kid , my Dad was into Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin , so he tainted me with all that , then I got into the punk thing when that was going down . |
| 25 | He does it in many different ways . |
| 26 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 27 | And had she not felt elated when he praised her in that soft , beguiling voice ? |
| 28 | That 's why he left me for some other woman — one who did n't booze and do embarrassing things , or get moody , or stupid , or passionate . ’ |
| 29 | He held her with those ice-blue pools for what seemed an eternity , draining her resistance , mesmerising her . |
| 30 | And when he 'd finished , he sticks them for another two hundred credits — danger money . ’ |