Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 2 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 3 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 4 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 5 | But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " . |
| 6 | Although agreeing that this approach raises value issues ( his first question ) , he thinks it of limited use in generating a range of curriculum alternatives ( second question ) , that it ignores the effects of choosing particular courses of action ( third question ) , and does not facilitate an examination of teacher 's common sense beliefs and opinions ( fourth question ) . |
| 7 | He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed . |
| 8 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 9 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 10 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 11 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 12 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 13 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 14 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 15 | Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers . |
| 16 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 17 | He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy . |
| 18 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 19 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 20 | When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running , he accepts it as constructive advice . |
| 21 | He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope . |
| 22 | HE WOOED her with skew-whiff quotes from Shakespeare , pranced about in Chelsea football kit — minus the shorts — then bedded her on a futon with all the stamina of an 18-year-old . |
| 23 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 24 | He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 26 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 28 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 29 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 30 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |