Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made her wait for an answer as he topped the teapot up with hot water and Ruth 's imagination went off on its own . |
| 2 | He was out of Birmingham ; not only that , he got himself space on the floor of a flat above the Two ‘ I 's coffee bar in Old Compton Street . |
| 3 | He says you go to a pushbike shop and get special tools . |
| 4 | Whether his witness against a background of hate because he told we look at the Paraclete 's role in the world or among the disciples the answer is the same . |
| 5 | He watched her go from the room and felt an urge to drag her back . |
| 6 | He watched her disappear round the corner of the street then , shrugging his shoulders , walked on , thinking again of that incredible whispered conversation at company HQ . |
| 7 | He watched her come into the room and look about her . |
| 8 | He watched her merge with the undergrowth until only her calves showed , pale as milk in the shadows . |
| 9 | He watched them walk towards the car . |
| 10 | A slight smile curled the edges of his wide mouth as he watched them disappear behind a large veteran hay wagon parked on the far side of the pub yard . |
| 11 | There were tears in Johnny 's eyes as he watched him turn into the laneway and out of sight ; he had a feeling he would never see him again . |
| 12 | He watched him go to the bar and get a glass of wine , looked away , aware that he was approaching . |
| 13 | He watched it move towards the cup and saucer and for a moment he thought she was going to take her coffee , get up and leave him . |
| 14 | The next three shops was which was a er he become I think in the finish but it was a toy shop and then you came to er the fruiters , on the other side of Street , and you came down to er little pawnshop . |
| 15 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 16 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 17 | Grandad never went near a pub because of what he said they put in the beer . |
| 18 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 19 | He suggested they meet at a bar he knew round the corner from the Place de Grève . |
| 20 | ‘ He knows I look at the forest , ’ she said . |