Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] he [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Or else she turns to him in the middle of dinner and asks : ‘ What 's happening about the Matterhorn , Howard ? |
| 2 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 3 | Now that he 's gone she refers to him as her dear Tom . |
| 4 | She says she thinks of him as one of her own children . |
| 5 | ‘ Because he senses that she looks on him with disdain , ’ Lucy informed him . |
| 6 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 7 | She kneels to him along the leaning |
| 8 | — Amadou has never seen a beautiful white starwoman like this , and she speaks to him in a soft low voice like the south breeze stirring in the palms , like it does just before the sun sets . |
| 9 | she does n't talk to him she talks about him to everybody else , either way she |
| 10 | But Emily 's great wish from childhood , confided to her small admirer David on his first visit , is to be a lady , and when her beauty and refinement attract David 's glamorous friend Steerforth , she elopes with him in the hope that he will bring her home a lady . |
| 11 | We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God . |
| 12 | Gazza , who will be watched by England No 2 Lawrie Mcmenemy tonight , said : ‘ Luigi could n't get in the side because of Maradona but he talks about him with no jealously , only admiration . |
| 13 | He carries with him from childhood an unconscious guilt for his little sister 's death in a freak accident , a death which sets off a series of revenge killings . |