Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of his who was a district nurse in the area where he lived once spotted him chatting to a shopkeeper in his usual congenial fashion . |
| 2 | The evening sun is low in the sky with its rays almost horizontal , piercing the dhāmi 's eyes as he turns back to face it . |
| 3 | Erm and he goes on to describe it as something more near . |
| 4 | Jean-Paul thinks the French brought prosperity to a poor country , and he goes on believing it because he takes care never to set foot outside the European quarter . |
| 5 | He goes on to say he 's ‘ curious to know whether it is open to a wider and perhaps more aggressive audience with access to fax machines ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 7 | Everybody that comes in — you can imagine the reaction — and you ask him not to do it and his language is appalling , and he goes on doing it . |
| 8 | He darned nearly did it . |
| 9 | Staying seated while he prowls around makes me uneasy , so I stand up and join him at the window . |
| 10 | When he got up to go I tried to tell him that I understood , that I would n't say anything if he would take me home , but he backed away out . |
| 11 | He got up to get them some more beer . |
| 12 | He took his vorpal sword in hand : Longtime the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree , And stood awhile in thought . |
| 13 | Everything he owned just to have it in his hands for a few hours . |
| 14 | He damned near drowned me . |
| 15 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 16 | Does he know how to use it ? |
| 17 | He looks up to see her approaching . |
| 18 | Pete felt a stirring of apprehension then , rising like a deepwater fish to the sunlight ; and although he tried not to let it show , Alina seemed to perceive it . |
| 19 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 20 | He tried cautiously to shove her over by main force , but she was too heavy . |
| 21 | But he phoned up to order it and said oh my wife likes these soppy things , he bought it , I did n't . |
| 22 | A month later he phoned home to say he had joined the Croatian Army in Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | For the most part , however , he found more to preoccupy him outside France ( where he feared the imminent outbreak of a global conflict ) than inside . |
| 24 | He pauses briefly to watch me leave . |
| 25 | He rings back to inform me that I 'm the rudest person he has ever met . |
| 26 | And he lives there does he ? ? |
| 27 | Finally , he moved around to face her . |
| 28 | Ridiculous , she told herself , relieved when he moved away to pour them both some Perrier water . |
| 29 | He moved up to kiss her while his hand continued to stroke her aching body , then , when neither of them could bear it any longer , he thrust into her , and she arched back , drowning under wave after wave of mounting pleasure . |
| 30 | When he moved abruptly to cover her , to force a place for himself on top of her , levering her legs wider to open her body to him , his coarse , muscled weight was a blissful assuagement of hunger , a hunger burning through her so fiercely that she felt almost faint … |