Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [det] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made it all seem easy , producing an excellent meal , and the lunch party at the Commanding Officer 's residence went off without a hitch . |
| 2 | With his long legs , he made it all look easy . |
| 3 | We met with the head ski instructor first and he made us all ski down the slope individually so that he could put us into different groups . |
| 4 | He made us all learn it by heart . |
| 5 | And what things did he want them both to forget ? |
| 6 | When he asked what this meant , he was convinced that he was to get up and go and join the church planting team . |
| 7 | He says he thinks they both got the part right by not smiling . |
| 8 | He haunts his own staring vigil |
| 9 | He found them both sitting there . |
| 10 | Seymour and Collins had diplomatic immunity ; he let them all depart back to London in their two cars fifteen minutes later , warning them that he would want Quinn , for whom there was no diplomatic status , available for the taking of lengthy statements in London . |
| 11 | He let us all go to the burial . |
| 12 | Already in 1926 ( The New Republic , 30 June ) Tate was obliged — faced with the aridity in diction and imagery of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ — to concede that ‘ It is possible that he has nothing more to say in poetry ’ . |
| 13 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 14 | If the person indicates that he has nothing more to say the officer shall without delay cease to question him about that offence . … |
| 15 | When he wants it all done by . |
| 16 | Those coppers had been assembling , you see , so I lurked in the shadows and watched , and when the Top Cop turned up he told them all to get in the Black Maria . |
| 17 | He poured himself another to keep her company . |
| 18 | but this time it was a genuine tragedy so he paid me all deposit I put in , he paid me all back , you know , I don I did n't want I do n't want to go caravanning by myself |
| 19 | Nobody owned up so he ordered us all to fetch our kit downstairs and to spread it out in a line on the wet grass , while he went along inspecting our underpants and spare trousers . |
| 20 | He swore it all happened so quickly , he could do nothing about it . |
| 21 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 22 | The young Michael found Emmanuel church austere , and later , when he knew what that meant , puritan . |
| 23 | And he thought he knew what that meant . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 'll have a job to see anything ; he kept it all locked up . |
| 25 | Analysing the moral status of a whole society calls for clear thinking and a certain coolness of mind , elements conspicuously absent from most of the pronouncements of public figures in recent weeks , aptly if unintentionally encapsulated by the Prime Minister himself when he exhorted us all to try to understand less . |
| 26 | When he did we all jumped up into the air . |
| 27 | Their heads were close together and as he appeared they all looked up in unison with startled faces and fell silent . |
| 28 | He explains what this means in practice as follows ( 1968 : 602–3 ) : This assertion , in another conference paper ( of 1960 ) entitled ‘ Poetry of grammar and grammar of poetry ’ , was subsequently corroborated by a series of studies of individual poems in six different European languages , ranging in date from the thirteenth to the twentieth century . |
| 29 | But we can see that he had something more to work on than the Roman thirst for gold . |
| 30 | He had them all fixed in his mind . |