Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand . ’ |
| 2 | Well away from the beaten track he laid her gently on a bed of moss and bracken , and she opened her arms to him , loath to lose his touch for even a second . |
| 3 | He laid it down on a rock and plunged his arm in the sack once more . |
| 4 | He passed her by without a glance , but she could feel the cold waves of antipathy issuing from him , and shivered . |
| 5 | So he sold it on to a this kid and it was up Baxters |
| 6 | She drew herself up , stilling her racing pulses , as he asked her now with a wave at the drinks table , ‘ Would you care to indulge in a drink before dinner ? ’ |
| 7 | " He asked you in for a drink without asking me ? " |
| 8 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 9 | I wished everyone goodnight and he led me upstairs into a small dormitory room . |
| 10 | I arrived early and he led me upstairs to a comfortable polish-scented lounge and made coffee , before returning to the bar to finish off . |
| 11 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 12 | He fixed us up with a drink , accommodation and a training session that evening . |
| 13 | The cigarette had burned away between his fingers and he dropped it hastily into a cup on the tray beside him . |
| 14 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 15 | He studied her intently for a moment , then bowed his head slightly . |
| 16 | He studied her impassively for a moment . |
| 17 | In spite of this , and the fact that it was so large , he recognised it immediately as a coelacanth . |
| 18 | He drove her back in a battered silver sports car . |
| 19 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 20 | ‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods . |
| 21 | He licked it away with a flick of his tongue , sucking and swallowing . |
| 22 | Martin Luther King had a vision as personal and private as the sleeping child or the cross-legged meditator , but he turned it outward as a prayer for peace so that it became shared . |
| 23 | She tried to turn her head away , but he turned it back with a gentleness that was deceptive . |
| 24 | He handed it over at a rendezvous — but Elizabeth was kept in her captor 's car boot for another two hours before being dumped . |
| 25 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 26 | Billie heard the housekeeper ask Adam in the kitchen as he followed her through for a new packet of cigarettes . |
| 27 | But unlike many well-meaning friends , he followed it up with a practical alternative : ‘ Tell God every detail of your needs in earnest and thankful prayer , and the peace of God , which transcends human understanding , will keep constant guard over your hearts and minds as they rest in Christ Jesus . ’ |
| 28 | But his comment on her age was a throwaway one , it seemed , for he followed it up with a reference to his previous question by asking , ‘ Are you an only child ? ’ |
| 29 | In these crates — ’ he beckoned her over with a cool , authoritative wave ‘ — is the very latest ‘ state of the art ’ satellite communication system imported from France . |
| 30 | ‘ Where did you get that , darling , ’ he touched it lightly with a finger , as if it were a toy out of a cracker . |