Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] he [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped that Mavis had n't passed on my thoughtless , remarks about his easy-going approach to work and was therefore somewhat self-conscious when he appeared in my office at half past two on the dot . |
| 2 | Professor Richard Titmuss rather implied this when he wrote in his Essays on the Welfare State that : |
| 3 | His heavily lined mahogany coloured face was unsmiling as he looked at them . |
| 4 | He does not observe or understand them as lessons in natural history , but knows their names and as much about their habits and life-history as he needs for his purpose . |
| 5 | He lived in the town of Cambridge for more years of his life than in any other town , and this though he managed during his life to live in nine different towns and in one village . |
| 6 | Is it just a coincidence that Jesus is said to be thirty years old when he embarks on his ministry ? |
| 7 | He was almost two years old when he came to me . |
| 8 | Leonora felt claustrophobic as he loomed over her . |
| 9 | His low growl of pleasure told her she was pleasing him , and his voice was unsteady as he murmured against her lips . |
| 10 | It was so cold and self-contained , his eyes were empty when he looked at her . |
| 11 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 12 | ‘ He listens to me about as much as he listened to his mother — in one ear and out the other . ’ |
| 13 | Mind you , fair 's fair : they went after him just as much as he went after them — he were a good-looking chap , well set-up , like . |
| 14 | The secret policemen made themselves so hated by ordinary Iraqis that they now depend on the president 's protection almost as much as he depends on theirs . |
| 15 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 16 | His eyes were dark as he looked at her . |
| 17 | It was dark when he cycled to his piano lesson , and it was dark when he cycled back to the farm again . |
| 18 | She had anticipated as much when he talked to her about leaving as they watched the sun go down over the Mediterranean during the honeymoon cruise . |
| 19 | For a second or two the expression of the Annamese.camp " boy " hardened as he stared at his employer , then he moved away from the peephole and began to busy himself cleaning the pots and pans that had been used to prepare the meal . |
| 20 | The judge was an old , kind man , but his face was very serious as he looked at me . |
| 21 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 22 | I do n't know how you all managed to worm your way into our confidence , but someone 's already taken care of one of your friends , and the other will be lucky if he lives until his trial . ’ |
| 23 | Did he look ill before he started on his breakfast daddy ? |
| 24 | Meyer felt confused as he sat behind his desk and started examining a file . |
| 25 | Increasingly during the next fifteen years the triangle formed by Swansea , Pontardulais , and Ammanford — with the fr owning eminence of Carreg Cennen Castle in the distance — provided him with a retreat and a source of healing as he faltered towards his final realization as a poet . |
| 26 | Vera had started to climax again as she saw Vashinov pump away at the young man , his breathing rapid as he reached towards his orgasm . |
| 27 | He felt sick as he thought about them . |
| 28 | He got more and more tense as he pulled at himself . |
| 29 | Having reached 50 off 71 balls , Simmons was unstoppable as he sprinted to his third hundred in one-day internationals from a mere 102 balls . |
| 30 | Especially when he had made it crystal-clear where he stood with her . |