Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	" He thinks of me as such . "
2	I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him .
3	Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed .
4	Whenever I go into his kennel it 's a toss-up whether he escapes or not ; he wins about one in fifteen times .
5	When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all .
6	As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ .
7	when he 's mad , he grabs at it like that and whips it
8	This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense .
9	He calls for me at nine ,
10	Asks Laverne , subjecting the pond life he picks off himself to tight scrutiny .
11	Any other small mammal of this size would quickly be squashed to death , but when he steps off it after several minutes , the hero shrew reveals that it is still very much alive by trying to escape .
12	‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’
13	He gazes at her with puzzled concern .
14	He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience .
15	Here he comes past one past another past yet another into third place in the end and that was an extraordinarily good performance .

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