Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me nervous just looking at him , his two hands pressing each side of my doorframe . |
| 2 | Did he think her attractive still ? |
| 3 | Oh he drives me mad sometimes ! |
| 4 | Unless he got himself free soon , he would die … . |
| 5 | Incidentally , the Scottish players thought he got it right both times in that Gary Armstrong had not scored , but Turnbull had . |
| 6 | A pioneer of motoring , he built his first electrically propelled tricycle in 1874 , and subsequently owned sixty-two cars of nineteen different makes . |
| 7 | He continued to wear glasses even when he found them unnecessary simply because they had become part of his image . |
| 8 | He found them enjoyable too and full of good advice on skin care . |
| 9 | As he is something of a carpenter ( he built his own sail boat for use on the Chesapeake ) , he found it simple enough to take off the right-angled corners and substitute curves . |
| 10 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 11 | He found it hard even to visit his old sidekick Bundini when he was dying . |
| 12 | He found it hard enough to persuade senior officers to go along with the peace settlement . |
| 13 | He drew her close again and they fell silent , Rachel reflecting on how hard it must have been for David not to have told her what had really happened between himself and her sister , then another thought struck her . |
| 14 | Sinking back down , he drew her close again . |
| 15 | She knew what the singing in the air had been and her arms crept around his neck as he drew her closer still . |
| 16 | He bore it all very well , she thought , but by then she was past caring how he was taking it . |
| 17 | To this he adds his own more individual list of suspect conceptual categories : the subject , class , ideology , repression , the science/non-science distinction , as well as any general theory of society , causality , or of history itself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Before I fell out with your father , he told me some very nasty stories about the way you behaved at home ! |
| 20 | He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no . |
| 21 | ‘ He told us that before . ’ |
| 22 | Maybe he thought , if he drove her hard enough and far enough , she 'd quit of her own accord . |
| 23 | I understand he finalised it all today . ’ |
| 24 | He showed me some really nice places , and then we went to this park , I ca n't remember what the park 's called . |
| 25 | There was caviare and smoked salmon and cold chicken ( he buys them ready-cooked somewhere ) — all things he knows I like — and a dozen other things he knows I like , the cunning brute . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Your job hangs by a thread , ’ he informed his subordinate cheerfully . |
| 28 | Does he keep his cool though ? |
| 29 | Because I was n't sure whether he get it right anyway . |
| 30 | And he stuck them all together and the damn thing ran . |