Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
2 | How dared he treat her like this — flirting first with Stephanie Marsa , and then cynically switching to her ? |
3 | He passed it on verbatim . |
4 | ‘ How dare he answer me like that ! ’ |
5 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
6 | So he sold them for four X. |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 |
9 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
10 | Two years later , he sold it to Scottish & Newcastle , netting a cool £70 million in shares . |
11 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
12 | He sold it in 1989 to John Kluge , the richest man in the US , whose wife fancied living next to Balmoral . |
13 | 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 |
14 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
15 | Anyway , he just liked the sound of it , and had n't he heard it for most of his life — until now . |
16 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
17 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
18 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
19 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
20 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
21 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
22 | He asked it without any apparent sense of its being a stupid question . |
23 | He led her into one of his work alcoves where a hi-res VDR was set up . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Much to my surprise , he led me towards one of the public beer tents . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
29 | 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 ? |
30 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |