Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had dismissed as rubbish Nina 's allegations that the men thought he was interested in her , but she had to admit he was good company , and for the next half-hour he entertained her with stories of his work in Australia , of the people he 'd met and of his excursions into the bush and to the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 2 | Tickets were printed and he sold them to friends for 1&shilling. each … |
| 3 | He asked me about costs and what exactly I 'd been doing . |
| 4 | He led them along corridors and walkways until they came to a double set of metal-barred gates . |
| 5 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 6 | He helped her to feet , and drew her free arm through his . |
| 7 | This was because he used them as guidebooks . |
| 8 | So he converted his barn which was huge and he used it for recitals , put a lovely grand piano in it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going out today , ’ he told me between mouthfuls of rice and salad . |
| 10 | He told us of families who had built ramshackle premises on unused land only to see them bulldozed . |
| 11 | Not an ounce of her resisted , as he consumed her with kisses and slow-moving caresses . |
| 12 | He drove them to fields in the Derbyshire countryside where the offences took place . |
| 13 | He filled it with ghosts and animals from his imagination . |
| 14 | The empty box was a convenient size and he filled it with essentials — and a few non-essentials . |
| 15 | Mr Cubbage was like a cat on hot bricks , he was most distraught at Coleen 's decision to go to England , and he bombarded her with letters and flowers ; he could not wait for her return and for her to say the one word that would make her his wife . |
| 16 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
| 17 | Whether they were 's trained ready , when I , men I saw in my time we 'd , he galloped them on Wednesdays and Sundays . |
| 18 | He alarmed us as children : he had a gruff manner , a game leg and a pronounced cast in one eye . |
| 19 | Once , when the late President Zia presented a cheque to Edhi , he returned it with thanks . |
| 20 | ‘ We had forms to fill in , and he touched us for fags into the bargain , and we had to get water from the well . ’ |
| 21 | He heard them alongside recordings of Di speaking at a conference and said that although there were similarities , the voice patterns of the unidentified woman did NOT match Di 's . |
| 22 | She said she was hungry ; he fed her with cornflakes and afterwards she went to sleep , her fat cheek squashed against his waistcoat button , her pink mouth dribbling milk . |
| 23 | He accompanied his trainees on lunchtime booze-ups in the local pub where he regaled them with stories of his hectic social life . |
| 24 | He insisted we join him for dinner where he regaled us with tidbits of gossip from the court and city . |
| 25 | He kissed it with lips wiped dry and germ-free on the sleeve of his jacket . |
| 26 | He equated them to colours , with each one having its opposite , like joy and sadness or acceptance and disgust . |
| 27 | He smashed it to pieces . |
| 28 | He examined it for blotches and blemishes , and subjected any irregularities to the most rigorous scrutiny . |
| 29 | But we did not create much poetry : we held each other tenderly , and he comforted me with kisses . |
| 30 | But the excuse which he gave had a genuine ring about it : he could not afford to go , for none would serve in his retinue unless he rewarded them with revenues from his own lands , which would entail a loss of status ( ‘ grant abesement de mon estat ’ ) which the king would not wish . |