Example sentences of "he [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His approach to clients was summed up in a remark I overheard him make to a colleague at the bar : ‘ You know me — I believe everybody ’ . |
| 2 | Both victims were brought to him limp in the arms of their supporters and their condition appeared dire . |
| 3 | Mrs Orton took it upon herself , watching him pick at a little heap of sprouts and chestnut , to observe that he had very likely made himself ill with being faddy . |
| 4 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 5 | She watched him kneel on the floor and , taking a deep breath , she switched off all sensitivity to close her lips over his wrinkled anus . |
| 6 | She watched him sprawl in a cane chair on the terrace , light a cigar , and pick up a book , uncaring of the many and varied insects homing in on the light above him . |
| 7 | Deeply as she disliked and distrusted the actress , she still was n't certain just how Dane felt about her , and she was n't about to pin her own colours to the mast and risk having him leap to the other woman 's defence . |
| 8 | Winston watched him hurry down the drive to his car . |
| 9 | A delighted , if somewhat bewildered smile tugging at her own mouth , her eyes alight with laughter , she watched him melt into the crowds . |
| 10 | She watched him climb from the bed and put on his dressing gown . |
| 11 | At Meehan 's appeal Nicky asked the presiding judge , Lord Clyde , if he could call Mr Ross to the witness box to have him listen to the recording . |
| 12 | Five years ago a medical general practitioner might have spent $8,000 a year on an insurance policy that gave him cover for a claim up to $1m . |
| 13 | Corbett sang the psalms with them , feeling a great deal of the tension within him dissipate with the monotonous , harmonious chant . |
| 14 | ‘ A bit , ’ she said , and she watched him walk to the end of the bed . |
| 15 | She watched him walk to the door and open it . |
| 16 | Willie watched him walk down the path and towards the church . |
| 17 | She watched him walk down the path and get into his Rolls-Royce . |
| 18 | A later ( later in terms of the Quarto numbering , that is ) example of this type of sonnet , with its disgusted ‘ withdrawal of the Poet ’ gesture , is 95 : The exclamatory style , the notably affectionate gestures , the epithets of praise ( ‘ sweet and lovely ’ , ‘ sweets ’ , ‘ beauty 's veil ’ in line 11 ) almost convince us that the Friend 's personal attractiveness can somehow transmute evil to good , a form of paradoxical hyperbole that Shakespeare gives to Lepidus , attempting to excuse Antony 's faults to Caesar : ‘ His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven , /More fiery by night 's blackness ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , I.iv.13f ) . |
| 19 | Mills had apparently met a very loquacious Dennis Suit in a bar in Tegucigalpa , Honduras , and listened to him brag about the worldwide connections he had made in the course of his career as a self-proclaimed CIA agent . |
| 20 | Scott had watched him get into the rocket many times and he dreamed about going with Space Man . |
| 21 | Watching him disappear into the inner sanctum , Lucy sighed . |
| 22 | Rachel crimsoned , watching him disappear up the stairs as she and Damian walked in tense silence to the living-room . |
| 23 | Cranston watched him disappear behind a wall . |
| 24 | Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit … |
| 25 | I watched him dip into a bucket and throw a scoopful of water on to the hot stones of the fire . |
| 26 | Leonora sipped her tea in silence , watching him dispose of a large slice of cheese and several wholewheat biscuits . |
| 27 | Wexford watched him feel for the girl 's hand , but she was occupied with Mrs Hatton , dabbing at her face and smoothing her hair . |
| 28 | Ultimately , he says , he opposed it since it would mean terminating the 386BSD project , an action CSRG has taken , as well as having him renege on a published promise to produce freely accessible 386 code . |
| 29 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 30 | I 've never known him go for the skinny boyish type before . ’ |