Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking no chances , he avoided them both in one long stride . |
| 2 | He was theatrical by nature , and he lavished it all on her , complimenting her in the most exuberant terms , telling her that her engagement had broken his heart irreparably . |
| 3 | Finally he got them all into bed . |
| 4 | I do n't know where he got them all from but it was always very interesting , and we worked our way through an album that was subsequently released . |
| 5 | He got them all from Barry Cross but gave his three-person Cycle Project Team to David Campbell . |
| 6 | He bore it all with bright spirits and was never anything less than an exemplary prisoner . |
| 7 | He used it all on the pond , I reckon . |
| 8 | On the return journey he told her all about himself and he held up his left hand for her scrutiny . |
| 9 | Pressed more closely he told me that for a number of years Laura had lived an almost schizophrenic life , symbolized by two quite different wardrobes — one for her parents , ‘ the Goody-Twoshoes suits ’ , the other for what she believed to be her real self . |
| 10 | He told me that with chicken pox I should n't be with the team , and he kept making remarks which made me feel embarrassed . |
| 11 | He told me all about it . |
| 12 | Perhaps because he spent so much of his time alone , he told me all about his wife , his two children , the home they had bought in Sanderstown , how long he had been married , where the children went to school — all the details of life in a town of about 60,000 people . |
| 13 | He told me all about it . |
| 14 | He told me all about the background to the picture , what Rembrandt probably felt like at that time , what he was trying to say , how he said it . |
| 15 | then she said yeah he told me all about it , she said he had n't registered . |
| 16 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 17 | He surveyed it all from the safety of the trees . |
| 18 | He was frightened by a prophecy that his downfall would be similarly brought about by one of his own children , so he ate them all at birth — HERA , POSEIDON , Hestia , DEMETER and HADES . |
| 19 | He rejected them both in favour of joining the family firm , but he was vague about the specific role he would play . |
| 20 | He spared us both by referring me to eye-witness accounts published by Amnesty International . |
| 21 | And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides . |
| 22 | He hated her more in his sobriety than when he was drunk . |
| 23 | At the close , over the coffee and brandies , he thanked us all for attending , told one short and amusing joke and wished us on our way . |
| 24 | One day when he had sold a painting for a hundred francs , he spent it all on buying flowers for every woman who passed by in the street in a gesture that Modi much admired . |
| 25 | His wife and mother beamed at him as he kissed them all in turn . |
| 26 | He blamed it all on business , but could not resist taunting her for expecting him to be at h-er beck and call , while disapproving that he was rich . |
| 27 | He pulled them both under the blanket , cradled her to him , crooned words that meant nothing in her ear , kissed new tears from her cheeks . |
| 28 | Finding the bag innocent of any crime , he waved us both on our way . |
| 29 | He covered them both with the cool sheets but he had no intention of giving up his questioning . |
| 30 | yeah till he sconded it all on gambolling I do n't know what people see in gambolling do you ? its like Willie Thorne |