Example sentences of "he [vb past] each [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
| 2 | He laid each book out neatly on the benches , his new boots echoing and reverberating noisily around him , but the vicar made no comment and carried on talking quite loudly , for someone who was in a church . |
| 3 | He lifted the boy 's hand into his rough dry palm and poked at the pattern of bruises on both sides , scowling as he prodded each mark in turn . |
| 4 | Water belched out as he drenched each tree , pouring the costly stuff into the deep trench which circled their trunks . |
| 5 | They had never drunk more than a couple of beers each , never raised their voices , and always complimented Trent on the fish he grilled each evening . |
| 6 | One by one he filled each chamber with powder and then , without wadding or patch , placed a soft lead ball on its mouth and pulled the long lever beneath the barrel ; this lever moved the rammer which forced the lead down into the chamber and sealed it so completely , the Collector had been assured , that the powder would still fire even if you immersed your arm completely in water . |
| 7 | While filming Von Ryan 's Express in Italy in 1965 , he arrived each day on location by helicopter while Trevor Howard and the rest of the cast had to make the journey by car along bumpy tracks . |
| 8 | He prefaced each pronouncement with an apologetic twitch of the head to the left , but lesser mortals hung on every word — and he knew it . |
| 9 | He hummed the little tones as he pressed each key . |
| 10 | He emphasised each word with a stab of a well-fleshed finger that bore his brassy signet ring . |
| 11 | But it was to this very building that he departed each morning , from an office much like this that he returned each night . |
| 12 | He spent each morning working on it and was , in addition , trying to keep down his evening engagements to only two a week , seeing no one at all on Fridays and Saturdays . |
| 13 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 14 | He signed each letter simply as ‘ Your own Edward . ’ |
| 15 | Though he began each day as before , in fear and trembling , he had found the courage to follow his own path . |
| 16 | Leonora quivered , her teeth caught in her lower lip as he kissed each breast in turn , his lips lingering over their slight curves . |
| 17 | He kissed each corner of her mouth , her chin , her nose . |
| 18 | No other book so well demonstrates the influence of the cinema on Minton 's art : he conceived each design as if he were composing a frame , making frequent use of close-up and distortion . |
| 19 | Yet at the same time , he needed each superpower to see Bucharest as a natural place for influencing the views of the other one and other players in the international game . |
| 20 | On 28 February Sjahrir resigned from the premiership : but Sukarno and he needed each other , even if they suspected each other : on 2 March he was back as Premier . |
| 21 | It took several weeks before the new trader was able to work out roughly the quantities he needed each morning to satisfy his customers ' needs , and still longer to realise that those needs would vary from day to day |
| 22 | He examined each room in a more leisurely fashion . |
| 23 | Next , he took each hand in turn , and smeared the greasy oil between her fingers , and thence upwards to the slope of her shapely shoulders . |
| 24 | By the time he got to the house he knew each phrase by heart . |
| 25 | The following morning , just before the father left for his beastly second-hand car garage , Matilda slipped into the cloakroom and got hold of the hat he wore each day to work . |
| 26 | He has assembled her spine , he cleaned each piece carefully |
| 27 | Reuben Boll was unwrapping the first of the boiled sweets he bought each morning in Tadley . |
| 28 | He had come as he did each day with bread from the baker 's iron oven that stood open to the lane in the souk . |
| 29 | His contribution , apart from general cooking throughout the year ( he had a small but excellent repertoire ) , was to make our bread , which he did each week unfailingly , and also the wine . |
| 30 | But it was to this very building that he departed each morning , from an office much like this that he returned each night . |