Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I needed to see him do something special to prove he loved me . ’ |
| 2 | Yet when asked , those who served with him find it difficult to sum him up . |
| 3 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 4 | By displaying a map of the area he made it easy to understand his talk and he emphasised the enormous size of Brazil . |
| 5 | He made us all learn it by heart . |
| 6 | But he found himself unable to say it , especially not to this so very obvious gentlewoman . |
| 7 | Though his compositions won many prizes internationally , Tan says that gradually , he found himself unable to express his real self . |
| 8 | Seated beneath a standard lamp , glass in hand , impressionist art on the wall and thick floor-length curtains closed against the night , he found it possible to believe he was almost anywhere but where he really was . |
| 9 | However , as he found it possible to reformulate it in terms of his own engineering type of mathematics ( which is not ) , he did not challenge it . |
| 10 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 11 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 12 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |
| 13 | Yet Morse 's mind was never more fertile than when faced with some apparently insuperable obstacle , and even now he found it difficult to abandon his earlier , sweet hypothesis about the murder of Theodore Kemp . |
| 14 | He found it difficult to see what progress had been made since his time . |
| 15 | Now , physically close for the first time , he found it difficult to keep his eyes off her , living flesh and remembered image seeming to fuse into a presence both potent and disturbing . |
| 16 | Now he said he found it difficult to show his feelings , but he clearly experienced the world through his senses , particularly touch . |
| 17 | But then , he found it difficult to believe anyone . |
| 18 | Days and even weeks after he was beaten by Conservative Michael Bates , he found it difficult to discuss what had happened . |
| 19 | He found it difficult to accept his own failings . |
| 20 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 21 | Rhoda Brocklebank had a part too , although he found it hard to give it a name . |
| 22 | He found it hard to understand what all the fuss was about , what possible pleasure there could be in waving a stick about for hours , catching nothing . |
| 23 | If there was anything she could n't cope with herself she would ask Mossy Rooney , a man of such silence and discretion that he found it hard to reveal his own name in case it might incriminate someone . |
| 24 | He glanced away , across the shelves of books , as if he found it hard to meet her gaze . |
| 25 | Well he , what he has it permed does he then ? |
| 26 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 27 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 28 | He poured himself another to keep her company . |
| 29 | but this time it was a genuine tragedy so he paid me all deposit I put in , he paid me all back , you know , I don I did n't want I do n't want to go caravanning by myself |
| 30 | Nobody owned up so he ordered us all to fetch our kit downstairs and to spread it out in a line on the wet grass , while he went along inspecting our underpants and spare trousers . |