Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he emptied his bladder he stared at his face in the shaving mirror . |
| 2 | I mean the one thing that Neil Webb can do , as you say he he 's missed a lot of football he played against our Reserves Thursday night , but the one thing he can do if he get an opportunity he can produce a telling ball . |
| 3 | I asked him what future he foresaw for our civilization . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's nothing , ’ he said , frowning at the blood he saw on his fingers . |
| 5 | link from his car he spoke to his deputy , John Scales , at headquarters . |
| 6 | She raised her eyebrows to heaven , took the fruit back , and handed him crescent after crescent , the babying he desired at her hands . |
| 7 | The 26-year-old University of Natal graduate , credited his god with giving him the concentration he needed for his marathon . |
| 8 | ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM . |
| 9 | Menna was never well in his head or heart — Tawaret did not smile on his birth , and the torture he experienced at his brother 's hands pushed him forever into a lonely land inside himself … ’ |
| 10 | On his shield was the rune of Slaanesh whose patronage he claimed from his mother 's side . |
| 11 | In an emotional interview he spoke of his fear of the condition and his worry that he will never work again . |
| 12 | Trying to ignore the disturbing effect he had on her heart-rate , she said crisply , ‘ Well , if it 's a fight you 're hoping for … ’ |
| 13 | In horrified disbelief he stared at his empty hand . |
| 14 | You can be sure those guys wo n't be toddling down tot he police with their weapons . ’ |
| 15 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 16 | This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks . |
| 17 | Using his telegraph instrument he communicated with his colleague . |
| 18 | Langton realized her impatience and ushered them out of the office towards another door , which he opened with a heavy key he took from his pocket . |
| 19 | At their abrupt entrance he rose to his feet , surprise and concern crossing his face as he glanced from her to fitzAlan . |
| 20 | Connelly felt himself losing consciousness but he was aware of being slapped hard across the face , even if the pain of the blow was negligible compared to the mind-numbing suffering he felt from his burned hand . |
| 21 | Two years later he was appointed vice-chancellor , in which capacity he served until his death . |
| 22 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 23 | After lunch he returned to his office where he would continue with his ordinary duties until the ritual of tea at four , when he would receive visitors . |
| 24 | Certainly this is one aspect of the poetry he wrote during his marriage to Vivien , at least up to Ash-Wednesday , and also of the early poetry he wrote as a young man in Paris . |
| 25 | ‘ Either you increase my husband 's wages to reflect the work he does on your behalf , or I might find it my duty to persuade him to look for other employment , perhaps with one of the many property owners hereabouts . ’ |
| 26 | Piggott Smith seems genuinely still surprised at the sort of commitment and hard work he won from his cast . |
| 27 | The work he did for his Doctorat de l'Universite , awarded with the citation ‘ bien ’ in 1965 , formed the basis for his first book , The Law Governing Employment in International Organisations ( 1967 ) , which remains a source much used by courts and tribunals including the Hague International Court of Justice . |
| 28 | It took her no more than four minutes to elucidate what kind of work he did in his lodgings . |
| 29 | He plucked out his dagger and hurled himself with all the weight and skill he had upon his enemy . |
| 30 | Later in the afternoon Chuck Sherman ran excitedly into the hut he shared with his brother . |