Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He passed it on verbatim .
2 Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece .
3 Two years later , he sold it to Scottish & Newcastle , netting a cool £70 million in shares .
4 This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " .
8 He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed .
9 He regarded her with lazy , sleepy eyes and said :
10 He regarded her with total disbelief .
11 While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind .
12 He regarded her with calculated interest .
13 He regarded her with undisguised affection .
14 Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth .
15 Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers .
16 The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity .
17 He knew that these societies of Gaul and Spain had their own rules and virtues , and he described them with obvious sympathy .
18 He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves .
19 He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’
20 He trained them to regular confession , and whenever any one of them was dying would prepare them for death , and be thankful when they died in penitence , peace and hope .
21 HE WOOED her with skew-whiff quotes from Shakespeare , pranced about in Chelsea football kit — minus the shorts — then bedded her on a futon with all the stamina of an 18-year-old .
22 I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' .
23 He received me with grave courtesy and enquired after my family .
24 ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety .
25 Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure .
26 ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace .
27 He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office .
28 ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness .
29 He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States .
30 Dr Theo Angelov , President of the Baptist Union of Bulgaria , addressed the Wednesday evening rally on ‘ People to People in Europe ’ , when he told us of faithful Christian witness over a period of 40 years by many in his country living through extreme conditions and hardships under Communist rule .
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