Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |
| 2 | So he took me to a butcher shoppe with a bacon slicer in it and you know it turned out that he was right aftr all . |
| 3 | The gusto with which he designed these posters shows how whole-heartedly he gave himself to the task in hand . |
| 4 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
| 5 | Quickly he led her to the saddle , pushing her face down onto its hard smooth surface , his hands caressing her intimately all the while , keeping her mind dark , her senses inflamed . |
| 6 | Yesterday he played himself to a world cup spot , more consentrated and on the alert then ever . |
| 7 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
| 8 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 9 | He come up the hospital , I was up in intensive care unit and me dad came round about half past ten at night and in he walked , he came straight down from Filey to see him , cos he used to think a lot of dad you see and dad did him years ago , he used to say he was more of a son than me own but then he brought her to the funeral , they would n't speak to me , would n't entertain me at all , I nearly fainted when I saw little one , she 's tall and thin |
| 10 | For a tick of eternity , his sapphire eyes seemed to burn through her , and then he said something to the woman , touched her lightly on the arm , and started across the room . |
| 11 | Then he took us to the university where a friend of his , an Englishman , was studying the local bird life . |
| 12 | Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost . |
| 13 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 14 | Then he invited me to a gypsy baptism which was to be held that night in the suburb of Vallecas . |
| 15 | There he brought himself to the notice of George Clifford , the wealthy Amsterdam banker and horticulturist ( see p. 50 ) , who had engaged young Linnaeus as his personal physician and as recorder of his garden plants . |
| 16 | One has to wonder then why he made it and how he related it to the archaic world of his plot . |
| 17 | He had fixed his star on the great Shakespearian roles — that , in his professional life , was what he lived by , that was how he tested himself to the limit . |
| 18 | Silently he handed them to the two sisters . |
| 19 | When she went upstairs he dragged her to the ground and after sitting on her stomach , he twice stabbed her in the cheek with a knife . |
| 20 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
| 21 | Steele escaped only weeks ago from Edinburgh prison and turned up in London where he glued himself to the railings at Buckingham Palace to protest his innocence before being re-arrested. escape , Steele telephoned the Daily Record newspaper . |
| 22 | Actually he pinpointed it to the day I came back from hospital . |
| 23 | Afterwards he took her to the entrance of the Priors Park Estate , where he released her . |