Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 2 | He would ride the boy on his shoulders or shove him roughly aside according to his mood . |
| 3 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 4 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 5 | Nothing moved , but the world tilted , and she looked down into eyes that registered he had felt it too . |
| 6 | Under a massive front-page headline , HUNT FOR DRACULA FIEND ( Star ) , the report indicated that a 13-year-old was able to tell detectives that her attacker ‘ had short dark hair streaked with grey and deep-set eyes that made him ‘ look a bit like Dracula ’ ' . |
| 7 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 8 | Dark , almond eyes that pierced him with their beauty . |
| 9 | Solid as a bull whale in his confidence and peering through eyes that suggest he is not lacking in a little magic himself , Hugh Smith calmly rebuts every argument that London is in decline . |
| 10 | Trent was reassured by the absence of hate in the dark , watchful , Latin eyes that faced him . |
| 11 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 12 | Half an hour later , walking slowly along the road into Haslemere through the mild grey morning , Harry described in his mind another circuit of all the barely linked half-chances that persuaded him Cunningham was right and concluded , not for the first time , that logic and probability were irrelevant . |
| 13 | She kept on his wavelength by talking about the subjects that pleased him most — and these frequently concentrated on the state of his behind . |
| 14 | John showed high intelligence in the subjects that interested him , such as geography , history and music , but would not bother with anything that bored him . |
| 15 | Understood the dreams and images that tormented him , the listless refusal of his shrouded days . |
| 16 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
| 17 | In the screen of language the words that make him up are no more than some amongst many , a detail in the pattern , as a grotesque might be in early painting , or the straight man in a comic duo . |
| 18 | If Morrissey mocks the hand that feeds him , let he himself be mocked by the words that serenade him : ‘ This is the last song that I 'll ever sing — well I 've changed my mind again . |
| 19 | The words on his lips were the words that described him . |
| 20 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |
| 21 | In comparison to his contemporaries in 1967 he had completed a lot more films than most ; the difference was that his were a succession of B-movies that paid him little . |
| 22 | He walked on , climbing the flight of stone steps that brought him up into the Strand itself . |
| 23 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 24 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 25 | Sit on our bloody backsides and wish him luck ? ’ |
| 26 | Piquet 's 200 mph crash nearly took off his legs and left him with a limp for life . |
| 27 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 28 | She pulled up her skirt , opened her legs and straddled him . |
| 29 | Then suddenly he thrust his head between his owner 's legs and hoisted him into the trough with a resounding splash ! |
| 30 | Simultaneously , she reached between his legs and jerked him off . |