Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tensed , preparing to struggle , but purposefully he turned her to face him and before she had chance to utter one single protest he cupped her face in his strong hands and brought his lips down on hers , silencing anything she might have been about to say . |
| 2 | The fancier something looked , the better he thought it tasted . |
| 3 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 4 | Suddenly he realised he had no fear of death . |
| 5 | I did n't have much faith in him when I first spoke to him , but apparently he told her to stand on her own two feet . |
| 6 | apparently he charges you see . |
| 7 | That man with that ten thousand table , apparently he said he use it nearly every day |
| 8 | ‘ I asked Rico , when he telephoned , how long he thought she 'd been dead . |
| 9 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 10 | If only he knew he had no cause to hate her . |
| 11 | Perhaps he realised he 'd been rash . |
| 12 | Perhaps — perhaps he thinks you killed his father . ’ |
| 13 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 14 | Perhaps he felt he owed them something ; to make a glittering society match for instance — whereas , she sighed , they would probably be perfectly happy with his company instead . |
| 15 | Or perhaps he felt he had no choice , perhaps he did n't know about the other places in the city which he could have gone to ; anyway he became a real regular , and soon he was there most nights , in fact every night , six nights a week , The Bar being open every day of the week except Monday , usually from the afternoon and always until three a.m. ( at least officially ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps he felt he had a chance to help , ’ Theodora said . |
| 17 | Perhaps he felt he needed a best-seller like Morton 's to re-establish his claim to those titles . |
| 18 | He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps he makes it appear so . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps he did it to please the Patriarch . |
| 21 | Perhaps he did it to hear Mother scream . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps he wants you to marry him immediately . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps he wanted me to admit that I 'm a lucky bastard to be where I am , that I 'm Hollywood 's most successful failure , perhaps he wanted me to cry on screen . |
| 24 | Perhaps he wanted me to admit that I 'm a lucky bastard to be where I am , that I 'm Hollywood 's most successful failure , perhaps he wanted me to cry on screen . |
| 25 | And anxious that his relationship with Chantal might not be all he thought it had been . |
| 26 | Obviously he thought you 'd witnessed something you should n't have . |
| 27 | So he taught me to drive see and It was much easier then you see with a car . |
| 28 | So he said they said to him well go with Mark and he 'll show you the what to do . |
| 29 | so he said they put her to bed and he said it was best Christmas they ever ! |
| 30 | So he said he 'd got no objections to John moving it back |