Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of our obtrusive entry he made us welcome , inviting us in and lighting a fire . |
| 2 | As Creator He began it all ; as all-powerful He sustains it all ; as judge of the world He will complete it all and bring it to its consummation . |
| 3 | In return he gave them other ground at the rear of the church and also on the right-hand side of the new road and bordering Killicomaine Road . |
| 4 | Having a mind untrammelled by convention he offered the names ignose or godnose , but the editor of the Biochemical Journal would not accept either of them , so because the vitamin had the same empirical formula as glycuronic acid he called it hexuronic acid , leaving its structural chemistry to be determined later . |
| 5 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 6 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
| 7 | That day he found it prudent to acquire the services of one Frederick James Ratcliff , a solicitor of Blagrave Street . |
| 8 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 9 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 10 | By displaying a map of the area he made it easy to understand his talk and he emphasised the enormous size of Brazil . |
| 11 | I do n't mind dancing with girls when it 's for Jamie , though one time with one tall lassie he wanted us both to go outside so he could kiss her . |
| 12 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 13 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 14 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |
| 15 | On the return journey he told her all about himself and he held up his left hand for her scrutiny . |
| 16 | In turn he made it clear that the directors wanted an opportunity to participate in whatever business they ended up in and that there was a realistic profits incentive . |
| 17 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 18 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 19 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 20 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 21 | Emil explained to me that on this trip the linen , cutlery and glasses had been provided by the caterers , and without more ado he showed me first , where to find everything and second , how to set a table . |
| 22 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |
| 23 | In the end he does it all and more . |
| 24 | Boy thought about this reaction to the film all day , but in the end he found it unsatisfactory , both as a form of interpretation and as a form of enjoyment . |
| 25 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
| 26 | That way he got it all . |
| 27 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 28 | In it he said of Mrs Thatcher , in the jocular way he addresses us all : ‘ I wish that cow would resign . ’ |
| 29 | It was really uncanny the way he did it all the time . |
| 30 | The sky was the way he liked it best and thought best suited to the terrain it overcast , piled with cloud in pillars and columns and towers and ramparts , so that in places the vapour seemed not insubstantial but composed of solid masonry . |