Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Mr Golyadkin , incidentally mad , swaddled in a dream of silk ladders and Spanish serenades , aims for Schiller 's happy-everafter hut on the shore , Stepan understands he has nowhere to go : ‘ to order post-horses one must at least know where one is going . |
| 2 | David Brabham says his father has not got fond memories of Le mans because when he was driving it was wet and foggy … the weather was very bad … but David says he looks forward to it now because it is a classic event … he says its his first year with Jaguar at le mans |
| 3 | CW intimated he wishes eventually to move to bar-coding of Library stock to facilitate loans , and the same technology will suffice for both Horticultural and Library purposes . |
| 4 | Nick was hitting the ball too low , and David told him to swing under more and finish higher . |
| 5 | And Hill recognises he owes both his famous and late dad and his predecessor at Williams , Nigel Mansell , thanks for their efforts in helping him to land the chance he now has . |
| 6 | Hilton tells him to wait patiently in the darkness and acclimatise himself to this new existence , stripped of all the things that had made life worthwhile before . |
| 7 | Although the judge , Mr Justice Jowitt , had questioned the victim about the length of her skirt — it was a mini-skirt — Ms Calloway said he had twice intervened on the victim 's behalf . |
| 8 | Mr Vasarhelyi said he has never refused any offers of work and hoped one day to draw for the Royal Mail . |
| 9 | Chiesa said he had then been rewarded with the directorship of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio old people 's home . |
| 10 | Chelsea are ready to pay IFK Gothenburg around £1 million to end their striker search but Ekstrom knows he fired only blanks at Ashton Gate on Saturday . |
| 11 | Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun |
| 12 | Jane got him breathing again . |
| 13 | But , for one thing , the sheer size of the defeat made him and his players determined that it would never happen again and , for another , the power of Lillee and Thomson made him realize just what a potent weapon a battery of fast bowlers would be . |
| 14 | Tallis helped him sit again , sheltered in his cloak . |
| 15 | Tallis heard him walk away from the lodge . |
| 16 | Brazen or not , Warwickshire and England needed him fit again . |
| 17 | The one time North thought He had really come through ( ’ Thank God — He answers prayers ’ ) , was a cruel tease . |
| 18 | Pooley thought he sounded rather relieved . |
| 19 | Ruth thought he looked rather like a baby monkey , but she assured Rosie that her son was the most handsome child she had ever seen . |
| 20 | Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before . |
| 21 | Ross knew he had already waited too long , but he continued to look through the scope , hoping for a clean shot at his chosen mark . |
| 22 | Adam looked ashen , sick , gripping Undry as if his life depended on it ; and Ruth knew he 'd almost killed her just then . |
| 23 | Nigel remembered he had never liked her body . |
| 24 | Dr Curtis expects him to stay there , so you may find yourself out of a job tonight . ’ |
| 25 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 26 | When questioned , Mr Bence said he had never seen the trophy cabinet in his life , and was at a loss to explain how it came to be in the director 's Portakabin . |
| 27 | Such differentiation of detail as Adorno recognizes he explains as ‘ pseudo-individualization ’ . |
| 28 | Perhaps Vincentius realised he talked too much and , changing the conversation , asked about the friar 's day . |
| 29 | Then Jaq and Googol heard him pray squeakingly in proper Imperial Gothic , as if thus he might be heard across the galaxy . |
| 30 | Late that night both Millet and Throgmorton heard him going upstairs to the top of one of the towers of the chateau . |