Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 2 | Flaubert 's Dictionary offers a course in irony : from entry to entry , you can see him applying it in various thicknesses , like a cross-Channel painter darkening the sky with another wash . |
| 3 | He did n't look very happy , but then , when had she ever seen him look anything except cool or irritable , or arrogantly amused ? |
| 4 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |
| 5 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 6 | Summarize those needs cos there may be more than one and tell him what you 're gon na do , what is the plan of attack , when you 're gon na see the guy again and when we do our business building up , you can take it back to erm the benefits of him introducing us to other people by keeping policy charges down and increasing bonuses whenever possible , cos it 's in his benefit he introduces us to others so we do n't have to advertise , or very very rarely advertise . |
| 7 | Looking up with a gasp , she saw him watching her with narrowed blue eyes , his mouth a hard line . |
| 8 | With the agreement of Tony 's parents , Tony would follow a partial timetable for between two and three weeks , allowing him to phase himself into full attendance at the school . |
| 9 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 10 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |
| 11 | He passed it on verbatim . |
| 12 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 13 | Two years later , he sold it to Scottish & Newcastle , netting a cool £70 million in shares . |
| 14 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 15 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 16 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 17 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 18 | But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " . |
| 19 | Although agreeing that this approach raises value issues ( his first question ) , he thinks it of limited use in generating a range of curriculum alternatives ( second question ) , that it ignores the effects of choosing particular courses of action ( third question ) , and does not facilitate an examination of teacher 's common sense beliefs and opinions ( fourth question ) . |
| 20 | The rule devised was that if a man 's goods could be valued at £1 , but less than £2 , or alternatively if he owned nothing but received wages of £1 a year , he should pay 4d . |
| 21 | With a pinch of ingenuity , he built one from Thermolite blocks rendered with cement and sand . |
| 22 | He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced . |
| 23 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 24 | When he came across the bodies in the middle of Gayton village , he found one with broken legs , but still alive . |
| 25 | He found plenty of thickish sticks and picked up far more than he needed . |
| 26 | He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed . |
| 27 | He regarded her with lazy , sleepy eyes and said : |
| 28 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 29 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 30 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |