Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me nervous just looking at him , his two hands pressing each side of my doorframe . |
| 2 | He stuffed them all down his mouth and his nose , all his hankies ? |
| 3 | Incidentally , the Scottish players thought he got it right both times in that Gary Armstrong had not scored , but Turnbull had . |
| 4 | He got it all out of books . |
| 5 | Then he invited them both through into his office . |
| 6 | He continued to wear glasses even when he found them unnecessary simply because they had become part of his image . |
| 7 | He found them enjoyable too and full of good advice on skin care . |
| 8 | As he is something of a carpenter ( he built his own sail boat for use on the Chesapeake ) , he found it simple enough to take off the right-angled corners and substitute curves . |
| 9 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 10 | He found it hard even to visit his old sidekick Bundini when he was dying . |
| 11 | He found it hard enough to persuade senior officers to go along with the peace settlement . |
| 12 | He drew her close again and they fell silent , Rachel reflecting on how hard it must have been for David not to have told her what had really happened between himself and her sister , then another thought struck her . |
| 13 | Sinking back down , he drew her close again . |
| 14 | He bore it all very well , she thought , but by then she was past caring how he was taking it . |
| 15 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 16 | When Eva came back she hid his teeth , but he splodged it all up and ate it anyway . |
| 17 | He told them both never to leave the house again , and stormed out of the room , slamming the door hard enough to break a chunk of plaster out of the wall . |
| 18 | Before I fell out with your father , he told me some very nasty stories about the way you behaved at home ! |
| 19 | He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no . |
| 20 | ‘ He told us that before . ’ |
| 21 | There , he was given a plate of magic fairy dust to eat and he ate it all up , feeling strong and happy . |
| 22 | I understand he finalised it all today . ’ |
| 23 | Uncle had several offers but he turned them all down . ’ |
| 24 | He showed me some really nice places , and then we went to this park , I ca n't remember what the park 's called . |
| 25 | As John Parker put it , in the King of Fools , he had it all , wealth , charm , good looks , and he threw it all away on an American divorcee , who even his closest advisers considered an adventuress . |
| 26 | He had some Hoola Hoops and he crunched them all up and then he went |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | And when you think of a man earning about at the most two pounds ten shillings a week , one and sixpence was quite a sizable amount out of it , but eventually he paid it all off . |
| 29 | I 've gone round the car twice , I thought , that ai n't stopped but I did , you do n't realise it 's stopped cos I did n't hear the bib bib bib bib bib there 's so much foam anyway you do n't realise there 's none coming out the like fine dribbles coming out of fucking put the back , put the jets bit on he rinsed it all down just about got it rinsed and then it gives you like erm a blob like a wax blob , so I put that on there I thought |
| 30 | And he stuck them all together and the damn thing ran . |