Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes there would be two hundred cards on the pavement before someone fluked a cover and then all the cards were his and he cleared the deck . |
| 2 | Abandoning herself to the overpowering intoxication of his embrace , she parted her lips beneath his as he ravished the inner sweetness of her mouth . |
| 3 | He told me that he made a point of seeing one pantomime a year . |
| 4 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 5 | I remember that the very day that the surgeon told me that he thought the cancer was incurable , I saw the swifts returning to their annual nesting-place . |
| 6 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was evident to me that he believed a certain act of self-denial was required of him . |
| 8 | For years afterwards my fellow pupils would remind me that he got a gong — an Air Force Medal — for teaching me to fly . |
| 9 | He told me that he got an awful rocket from the Director of Accounts when he handed in the bill which worked out at several hundred pounds — and here we are talking of the year 1946 ! |
| 10 | Fagin drove into the cul de sac where I live , and told me that he had a permit for conducting his alleged legal trade . |
| 11 | Eventually Jim Humby who was in Standard Two at school ( I was in one at this time ) told me that he had a spare . |
| 12 | My grandfather , who was one of the aircraft pioneers , told me that he had a long argument with Cody about whether a certain member was in tension or in compression in flight . |
| 13 | I became involved with him some years ago when I was consulted by Lord Rayne who told me that he had a friend — a leading paediatrician in London — whose daughter was in serious trouble . |
| 14 | ‘ His wife , ’ Theodora said hesitantly , ‘ Mrs Gray , did suggest to me that he had a problem . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You assured me that he had no amorous intentions . |
| 16 | As a child I was taken to the dread Hector McDarroch in Glasgow and he did my dental work right up to my teens Friends of my youth tell me that he inspired a similar lasting fear in them , too , and in fact there must be a whole generation of Glaswegians who feel the same . |
| 17 | That suggests to me that he supports the policy of sector policing that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has put his weight behind . |
| 18 | He once told me that he found a company of not more than eleven people the most congenial . |
| 19 | It seems to me that he tries the Bible before the bar of his own mind rather than the other way around . |
| 20 | It was gratifying to me that he approved the political and economic articles I was writing for the New English Weekly . |
| 21 | My own specimen is in tropical conditions but I have seen young specimens for sale in a tank along with Sterlet and medium-sized Orandas and a retailer I know has told me that he has a customer with an extremely large ( 12″ ) Asiaticus kept in totally cold water with common Goldfish . |
| 22 | Joe also told me that he has a connection with cricket , although it is a comical one . |
| 23 | TERRY Waite , the special representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the would-be saviour of the Western hostages in Lebanon , became a burden to them once he became a hostage , Newsweek magazine reports in its latest issue . |
| 24 | Ackroyd put the signals to red , rang the station down the line to tell them that he had a problem and then rang the next station above to alert them that he still had a train in his section . |
| 25 | ‘ He has to put his proposals to the parties now , because he has made so many public comments about them that he has no other choice , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ But it was very obvious to me once he began the questioning what he was doing , ’ said Richardson . |
| 27 | He thought of Jos , Emily and Alice as his friends , and yet how could he trust them until he knew the truth of the incident ? |
| 28 | But already Allen was moving silently through the trees , making a half-circle around them until he reached the path further up . |
| 29 | She kept on and on about them until he had no option but to brake hard , and with a great deal of difficulty in that narrow lane , turn the vehicle around and go back . |
| 30 | He was about my age ( though he looked it ) but taller and stringier than me and he had a close-cropped beard but no moustache , which is usually a bad sign . |