Example sentences of "he [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 2 | Charlotte saw him glance out through the window and clench his teeth before turning back to face Ursula . |
| 3 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 4 | He wanted the youth to go away , for in his mind he saw him fall back with a suppressed scream of terror and pain , holding a handkerchief to his face . |
| 5 | Something in her voice made him ease back on the throttle , decide not to pass the Renault Turbo lorry he 'd been stalking . |
| 6 | The loading had made him break out in a terrible sweat and perspiration ran down his forehead into his eyes . |
| 7 | Watching this violation of the body 's orifices , preliminaries to the scientific brutality to follow , had always made him feel uncomfortably like a voyeur . |
| 8 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 9 | On instructions from the Corporals , we stripped him naked and made him run across to the horse trough where he was thrown in . |
| 10 | He 's really gorgeous wee Simeon although our Joy lets him schlepp about like a Toerag . |
| 11 | All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant . |
| 12 | Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively . |
| 13 | Sophie saw him look anxiously at an upper window as he acknowledged the introduction , then he said ‘ We have to speak very quietly as our little girl is asleep and she does n't know that Sandy is ill . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |
| 15 | We saw him look out of the window once or twice . ’ |
| 16 | It made him look more like a ruthless pirate than ever . |
| 17 | The anger on his brow made him look uncommonly like a younger version of his brother . |
| 18 | No , it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy . |
| 19 | After a short while she saw him emerge on to the quayside , a tall , lean man with the kind of rangy , loose-limbed walk which drew admiring glances from any female within range . |
| 20 | Something in her face , in her eyes , in the clenched line of her jaw , had made him hurry out of the tent after her . |
| 21 | We see him move slowly through the ranks , from fencing stolen goods to torching ailing business interests . |
| 22 | We see him move slowly through the ranks , from fencing stolen goods to torching ailing business interests . |
| 23 | It had lain there all day , still unread , for he knew that just to look at it , just to scan its heavy headlines announcing further death and destruction would only make him sink deeper into the bog of doubt . |
| 24 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 25 | He pulled the window up quickly and it was too dark for her to see him step back towards the house . |
| 26 | Pushing aside the leaves , she saw him stop halfway across the lawn and bend his head to light a cigarette . |
| 27 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 28 | She heard him drop quietly on the other side , and draw the bolt . |
| 29 | Raging at Felipe had just been because she 'd been shocked and scared for him when she 'd seen him take off into the air . |
| 30 | Hugh 's last scruples about seeing him cut out of the will were satisfied by writing him a personal letter of appeal . |