Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 2 | The cold plunge was in the adjoining massage room , and on surprisingly weak legs he made his way there and gratefully dived into the plunge . |
| 3 | After a few minutes he replaces it with something more conducive to conversation , the Neville Brothers ' ‘ Yellow Moon ’ . |
| 4 | After a few minutes he raised his head and was now sitting motionless , pale and haggard but controlled , while Iris , her eyes moist with sympathetic tears , stood silently and helplessly by . |
| 5 | George drove , not going anywhere , and for a few minutes he said nothing , then : ‘ Ecology . |
| 6 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 7 | After a few minutes he heaved himself out of bed , but his leg let him down and he fell backwards . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 9 | Bernard particularly enjoyed the dinner when he served his aristocratic French guests with wine from some dusty old bottles he said he had found in the cellar . |
| 10 | During my son 's teenage years he spent his life like a hobo , sleeping-bag packed into his satchel in case he wanted to doss down on a schoolfriend 's floor somewhere . |
| 11 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 12 | ‘ He looks better , it 's true , but some days he eats nothing at all , and other days he eats just like a healthy boy . |
| 13 | Legal & General 's Michael Payne says that over the next few years he expects his fund ‘ will grow more in Europe at the expense of UK equities , ’ particularly now that entry into the ERM has reduced the currency risk . |
| 14 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 15 | On windy days he finds himself flying over Doncaster , flares a-flap , hair streaming behind him like a curtain . |
| 16 | The raid netted him £500 million and over the next few weeks he made his strategy clear . |
| 17 | ‘ After a few weeks he told her he was going home , and asked her to go with him . |
| 18 | To the assembled bishops he described himself as ‘ bishop of external things ’ — presumably external to the church . |
| 19 | Then for a few seconds he said nothing . |
| 20 | Luke had tensed as she touched him , and after a few seconds he flung her hand off , the violence of the gesture silencing her abruptly . |
| 21 | Knew that she had warmed to him , that she wanted to ease his grief , and for a dangerous few seconds he thought he would cry . |
| 22 | There were some women he wanted her to take relief to . |
| 23 | Along with the rest of the British actors he drowned his sorrows each evening at the island 's taverns . |
| 24 | After a few moments he realized they were flying on an interception course . |
| 25 | For a few moments he watched them , and hearing their laughter and seeing the flush of innocent enjoyment in their faces he felt a sudden bitter pang of resentment that they should have their youth still and be free to enjoy it . |
| 26 | She displayed no interest in any of the social events he said he was going to and wondered if he might see her at . |
| 27 | He never put me on a heavy job until at such times he thinks I was fit . |
| 28 | At such meetings he kept himself in touch with the constantly changing scene of poetry , the new faces which appeared , the old names which disappeared . |
| 29 | Now and then he was addressed in Anglic , either by the Khan or by one of his neighbours at the table , and in such cases he did his best to answer politely . |
| 30 | Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones ! |