Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 2 | The big clubs were watching from the stands at the Manor and Joey could well become a top transfer target if he turns it on like this . |
| 3 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 4 | Well , do you want to go to Phillips and , I mean he kicks them out in two weeks . |
| 5 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 6 | The following afternoon he invited her round for another meal . |
| 7 | His main role with the consultants was to open a new Scottish regional office in Edinburgh and from there he built them up into one of the largest transportation consultants in Scotland . |
| 8 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 9 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 10 | ‘ He wakes me up at two in the morning sometimes , for no reason at all , ’ Peter said . |
| 11 | He shows us around with evident pride . |
| 12 | But he turned her around with one swift jerk and forced her to face him . |
| 13 | He coaxed it along with flawless control of line and colour as it was developed with equal measures of logic and charm . |
| 14 | Then he hosed him down with warm water until all traces of the beck had been removed . |
| 15 | And he followed it up by that shrewd observation ‘ It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God ’ ( Mark 10:25 ) . |
| 16 | He followed it up by further personal diplomacy , this time with Russia . |
| 17 | And he says , when he gets it up to sixty mile an hour on t' motorway it 's still vibrating . |
| 18 | He knocked it back in one gulp . |
| 19 | He knocked it back in one and gasped with the pleasure of it . |
| 20 | Feeling hurt and bewildered , she looked away , then squealed in alarm as he swung her up into strong arms . |
| 21 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's too beautiful a day for you to go on Mr Gajduseking me the whole while , ’ he cut her off in easy fashion . |
| 23 | Until he cut it down in later years , his run-up was extremely long — and his saunter back to his mark extremely slow — but the speed that it generated undoubtedly justified the length , and the grace of it all was an aesthetic delight . |
| 24 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 25 | Casabona admitted he forced a woman lodger in the house to go to a bedroom where he tied her up with adhesive tape . |
| 26 | I nearly fell over , he pulled me up with such a |
| 27 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 28 | Picking her up as if she were a doll , he placed her on to unsteady feet . |
| 29 | He clued me in to some strategy . |
| 30 | He rang me up at nine o'clock . |