Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How dared he treat her like this — flirting first with Stephanie Marsa , and then cynically switching to her ? |
| 2 | ‘ How dare he answer me like that ! ’ |
| 3 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 4 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 5 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 6 | I paid fi fifteen bleeding quid for that and I sai cos this year , I did n't know he 'd done this cos he sits it like that |
| 7 | Anyway , he just liked the sound of it , and had n't he heard it for most of his life — until now . |
| 8 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 9 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 10 | He asked it without any apparent sense of its being a stupid question . |
| 11 | He led her into another room , and there listened , with a good deal of amazement , to Rose 's account of her extraordinary conversation with Nancy . |
| 12 | He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation . |
| 13 | Innerd took over as Palace 's captain in 1906 after Ted Birnie had left us and he led us to several marvellous FA Cup triumphs , including the fabulous 1–0 Will at the home of his former club , and League champions , Newcastle United in January 1907 . |
| 14 | But the stuff we got , the stuff we got before that was really good you know Dan , do you remember the stuff he got us before that ? |
| 15 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 16 | Because Nick is ju erm is young and because he associates him with all these dangerous ideas , in genetic engineering and so on , he feels threatened by him . |
| 17 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 18 | Although he may not agree with what I have said , and what I am about to say , he should at least extend to all of us the courtesy of sitting quietly in his seat , especially if he joins us at such a late time . |
| 19 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 20 | He covers it with both hands . |
| 21 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 22 | Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed . |
| 23 | He mentioned it to several of his male colleagues . |
| 24 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 25 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 26 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 27 | Here , when Jacob meets his own brother , he meets him with all the courtly ceremony with which petty vassal princes used to greet their Pharaoh . |
| 28 | Why was he hounding her like this ? |
| 29 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 30 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |