Example sentences of "he [verb] [conj] she [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morse had never seen Mrs Marion Kemp , but from the marriage photograph that hung in the living room he realised that she must once have been quite a vivacious woman : dark , curly hair ; slim , firm figure ; and curiously impudent , puckish eyes . |
| 2 | He hinted that she might even receive an honour from the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher if she gave her support . |
| 3 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 4 | He wondered if she would ever regret it , and thought not . |
| 5 | He wondered if she would indeed try to seduce him . |