Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving Adam the chocolate bar , letting him tell her those rather dull facts about the sea defences , it had been so easy to forget what was going on — to feel he was just her little brother and everything was ordinary , normal . |
| 2 | He bore it all very well , she thought , but by then she was past caring how he was taking it . |
| 3 | He told them both never to leave the house again , and stormed out of the room , slamming the door hard enough to break a chunk of plaster out of the wall . |
| 4 | Before I fell out with your father , he told me some very nasty stories about the way you behaved at home ! |
| 5 | He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no . |
| 6 | ‘ He told us that before . ’ |
| 7 | I understand he finalised it all today . ’ |
| 8 | He showed me some really nice places , and then we went to this park , I ca n't remember what the park 's called . |
| 9 | As John Parker put it , in the King of Fools , he had it all , wealth , charm , good looks , and he threw it all away on an American divorcee , who even his closest advisers considered an adventuress . |
| 10 | And he stuck them all together and the damn thing ran . |
| 11 | Colonel Gaddafi , Saddam Hussein , Spitting Image … he takes them all unflappably in his loping , courteous stride . |
| 12 | Well , this , would he take it all personally ? |
| 13 | John had not expected such an overwhelming response , and as not even the Ballroom itself could contain such large numbers , he took them all outside into the street to make his selection . |
| 14 | Yet when people were being positively rude to him , he took it all very much in his stride . |
| 15 | One could therefore have been forgiven for wondering if he took it all totally seriously . |
| 16 | I remember being very excited by his round but he took it all calmly , quietening me down . |
| 17 | The poor guy really had it rough but he took it all quite well . ’ |
| 18 | He thought they all really agreed . |
| 19 | From one dim object to another he let his eyes roam , and he saw them all clearly : the Louis Quinze couch between the long windows , the French glass-fronted cabinet in the corner opposite , the sixteenth-century iron-bound chest standing in the alcove , its lid flat against the wall , held there by a pyramid of logs . |
| 20 | Anton , in this cubicle , stuck time , it seemed as a hundred years , the boy ; he was surprised how innocent , trusting — for he saw it all so clearly now , Parker 's mask — he once had been . |
| 21 | He knew them both quite well . |
| 22 | Executor and friend Geoffrey Woolsey-Brown said : ‘ He kept it all very much under his hat . |
| 23 | He gathered them all together with a quick look round . |
| 24 | He put them all away in the big wooden chest . |
| 25 | He reminded them that yesterday he 'd bought them two tins of Coca-Cola . |
| 26 | In the middle of page twenty eight , George lists all his different erm qualifications that he says he has and , I am not quite sure what an is an M A Master of Arts , P H D which is a doctor of erm philosophy and and he puts them all together to make up this word , ABMAPHD which does n't exist obviously as a real word . |
| 27 | After all , he was a very clever man , and sometimes , when he did not think she knew , he gave her some very peculiar looks that made her shivery inside . |
| 28 | But he gave us that there . |
| 29 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 30 | When Father died , he left us both enough to live in comfort for the rest of our lives , regardless of our husbands ’ support . |