Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handing her one of the mugs , his eyes on her apprehensive face , he slowly sipped his own coffee . |
| 2 | In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return . |
| 3 | He eventually shared them all out . |
| 4 | The advantages of an exchange rather than a sale , says Mr Nunn ( who set up the business after he successfully swapped his own home ) , are : no chain of buyers and sellers to fall through , stamp duty is payable only on any difference in price between the two properties , and agents ' fees are less . |
| 5 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |
| 6 | He obviously had his own reasons for wanting you to believe he owned Seawitch . |
| 7 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 8 | Throughout he fiercely defended his own actions and was at pains to explain why he did not quit as many had said he should immediately after Black Wednesday . |
| 9 | It was the greatness of the ancient empire to which the Shah was attracted and with which he constantly compared his own achievements and ambitions . |
| 10 | It was very , very close , the difference was two or three big points , he just played them that little bit better . ’ |
| 11 | No he he just left it that was the one I took out and cut he got it mm mm mm mm lovely boy is n't it funny that I see |
| 12 | I should think he is tired , he 's been running around this field , he 's been at deep square leg , at third man and everywhere and he just gave me that blank stare . |
| 13 | No we went in and erm it was about er three or four minutes before we actually started and he just gave us this paper and he put sets of questions to the different types of differentiation |
| 14 | He already had his own . |
| 15 | He still wanted his own way . |
| 16 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |
| 17 | He seemed quite unperturbed by her behaviour , by being walloped across the face , and she watched in amazement as he calmly took his own glass and sat in the chair opposite . |
| 18 | His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way . |
| 19 | And he always gave me this bottle |
| 20 | And he always gave me this bottle |
| 21 | He hardly knew his own mind , they said candidly among their own intimates . |
| 22 | The colonial experience gave him material for his propositions about colonial nationalism , the subject which he quickly made his own . |
| 23 | As an apprentice director he quickly defined his own idiom but it took the initiative and the backing of MGM 's Irving Thalberg to sponsor his big prestige films . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ He once had his own phone line but was disconnected by BT after running up huge bills . |
| 25 | He usually took his own washing to the laundry . |
| 26 | He also understood what few canvassers of the more earnest sort admit , even to themselves : that canvassing in a parliamentary election is not supposed to change electors ' minds . |
| 27 | He also collected their own accounts of the experience of poverty and their feelings about it . |
| 28 | While a close personal friend and follower , he also enjoyed his own power base in the midlands and an independent career in the service of the king and his son Edward . |
| 29 | He also sent him some of his famed fake letters in the name of ‘ Edna Welthorpe ’ — a character he invented for his own fun and that of the few chosen intimates who were allowed to receive them . |
| 30 | He also ran his own radio station , Breakfast pirate Radio , where he met his wife . |