Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Edward invited Harry to Oxford for Eights Week he informed him of his expectations from Lincoln College . |
| 2 | Yet while his wife slept one afternoon he found himself looking in cardboard boxes in the attic for blackout curtains which he remembered from the War . |
| 3 | With one foot he pushed her back , then knelt and spread her legs , watching her all the while , one hand moving between her legs , seeing how her eyes closed , how her breath caught with the pleasure of it . |
| 4 | In one stride he had her in his grip . |
| 5 | He rummaged under the counter and produced a colour chart , and , shoving the display-case of cakes to one side he flattened it out so that everyone could see and comment as they saw fit . |
| 6 | In one condition he showed them a series of objects which had been bought from a joke shop : a piece of rubber cheese , a chicken 's egg made of stone , and so forth . |
| 7 | I am going to tell Roy Plumley 's successor where he can stick the one luxury he allowed us to bring . |
| 8 | For all their mutual sympathy , for all the sense he had of their being irrevocably bound together , this was the one question he knew he would never ask . |
| 9 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 10 | At one point he said he wanted something and DeFries said ‘ No , you ca n't have it — you do n't have the money . ’ |
| 11 | At one point he describes his two colleagues as cheerfully admitting that they could not write very well . |
| 12 | One point he made which I have rarely seen put forward so well : that the audience can not be expected to follow any profound drama at all levels at once , and that there may be certain aspects which remain beyond the audience 's comprehension altogether . |
| 13 | to all er o o on both sides , erm there 's one point he made which is terrible important which is that the costs of this statutory instrument and all the guidelines and rules and regulations and orders that flow from it , will not impact onto small b business because that was the key to the deregulation bill and I wonder whether the deregulation unit has looked at this and whether it is satisfied it 's not gon na be an additional cost onto the running of small enterprise . |
| 14 | At one point he corrected her too easily made assumption and then pointed out to the therapist that he had shown his feelings : his voice had risen because her remarks had made him angry . |
| 15 | At one point he turned his head , listening for Emily . |
| 16 | One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread . |
| 17 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |
| 18 | One moment he loved them like a brother , then he 'd turn away and never want to speak fondly to them again . |
| 19 | On one occasion he sent his faithful valet , La Tour , to procure four waterfront prostitutes . |
| 20 | On one occasion he thought he heard Hubert 's teeth grinding ; but it was difficult to be sure because of the roar of the engine . |
| 21 | On one occasion he says he was ill for three weeks , until his friends prayed for him and he recovered that very day . |
| 22 | Frequently he would stop on his walk around the teams on a Sunday , and at least on one occasion he advised me to break from the scrum more often ( in those days airmen scrum-halfs played to orders ) . |
| 23 | It is evident from this and other comments , several describing treachery , that he often thought little of the English resistance , and on at least one occasion he did it injustice , saying under 1001 that an immense levy from Somerset and Devon met the raiders at Pinhoe , but fled immediately battle was joined , whereas an independent entry in the A text reports that the English fought with such forces as they could gather , which gives a rather different impression . |
| 24 | On one occasion he put his handprints on the painting as if beseeching the canvas to acknowledge the exiled body . |
| 25 | One night he brings me a huge bar of Old Jamaica chocolate and watches while I eat the whole lot . |
| 26 | But , being , a cunning old devil and a bit of a peeping tom , ( a purvoyeur ) , he knew where every valuable had been hidden and late one night he removed everything leaving the holes empty . |
| 27 | Late one night he visited me secretly , in order to warn me . |
| 28 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 29 | One day he stabbed his wife in the hand . |
| 30 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |