Example sentences of "of [noun] he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She filled him with a kind of exultation he had never experienced before and he found himself shaking his head . |
| 2 | I whimpered and pathetically tried to move the little finger of my left hand , currently being squeezed bloodless by the lattice work of fingers he had somehow contrived along the handle . |
| 3 | Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person . |
| 4 | We were n't allowed to have a we were n't allowed to have a cup of tea in break time no but er we were all on edge you know for fear , if he kicked it it would have scalded his foot and he were , he were only a few inches away from it , and of course he went now what we used to say now nosing around and we should n't have done he had a job to get round because he was |
| 5 | And of course he came here , he , and one day and he says , could I gi give this place as an address and I 'll get social security ? |
| 6 | And they stood at the door , and of course he come home with his cap in his hand , he said er they said oh what you do how you got on today ? |
| 7 | Because of course he knew perfectly well that the promptings of his own nature were an offence to his mother 's moral code . |
| 8 | Well of course he 's never had to do anything for himself . |
| 9 | Trying not to think about her possible reaction , Henry loaded cured fish , offal , red meat and a bold assortment of vegetables he had never even heard of , let alone eaten . |
| 10 | Sometimes they were misty and abstract , especially when one talked intimately of the past , of subjects he had long forgotten — or wanted to forget — awakening memories — nightmares ? — from deep within . |
| 11 | At present , no minister could answer a parliamentary question by saying that whatever his views on the matter , responsibility had been allocated for this function to Assistant Secretary Brown and it was up to that official to take whatever course of action he thought best to achieve the set objectives . |
| 12 | Romantic dreams and sexual callisthenics , chivalry and rape , roses and semen , chocolate boxes and contraceptives … but most of all , never entirely out of his embattled mind , slowly dragged the shapes of the thousands of words he had so far composed on that day and the thousands he had yet to compose by candle light through the remainder of the bitterly cold night . |
| 13 | And with or without his full quota of words he makes as much noise as anyone in what is a rather riotous production . |
| 14 | And with or without his full quota of words he makes as much noise as anyone in what is a rather riotous production . |
| 15 | Yes … ! ’ and felt him strip , the feel of his hair-roughened skin against hers driving her wild because now he was so real , so completely real , and so completely hers as they moved together naked , and she took the physical desire he expressed for her and pretended it was love , because it was the deepest display of emotion he had ever shown her . |
| 16 | Kirkpatrick is a marvellous rugby man , but surely his expertise is with the development of youngsters he enjoys so much . |
| 17 | It was an awesome sight to Owen — the charred and burning cottages almost totally engulfed , the huddled families powerless before the wanton destruction of all they possessed , their torturers still encircling him , screaming out the names of tunes he had never even heard of . |
| 18 | A French tourist visiting England Locke 's case seems to be that the moment he steps on the territory of England he has tacitly agreed erm to obey the laws and in return erm of course he receives the protection of those laws . |
| 19 | And Thucydides describes no sharper conflict than that between the aggressive Spartan Sthenelaidas ( i.86 ) and the more cautious King Archidamus ; for the supposedly more ‘ open ’ society of Athens he records only the views of Pericles and an anonymous delegation which does not contradict him . |
| 20 | Kalmia augustifolia had spread rapidly , being left undisturbed to sucker , a method of propagation he considered better than by seed ; a Cephalanthus occidentalis , the largest he had seen , ‘ liked the situation well enough ’ and Itea virginica was ‘ in the greatest vigour ’ . |
| 21 | He realized with a stab of regret he had never once seen her face clearly , and if he went back to seek her out he would n't know her for sure among the many daughters of the chief . |
| 22 | But his pulse returned to normal by the end of April , and at the beginning of May he returned home to Carlyle Mansions . |
| 23 | He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’ |
| 24 | Sarah was a beautiful , sensual woman and she aroused in him the kind of emotions he had always condemned as sinful in others . |
| 25 | The first was the narrow perception of letters rogatory as ‘ exclusively limited by understanding and in practice ’ to requests for the taking of evidence ; their use in the context of service of process he described as ‘ novel ’ , one requiring express statutory authority . |
| 26 | She rattled off the names of films he had apparently directed , looking overtly scornful at Robyn 's ignorance . |
| 27 | Sometimes the maintenance engineer is dealing with a type of failure he has never had before . |
| 28 | During his first twenty years at Finsbury , Meldola published more than 250 papers and reports , and during his presidency of the Institute of Chemistry he did much work for the development of all aspects of its activities . |
| 29 | For the past couple of years he has also appeared in pantomime with Rolf Harris . |
| 30 | But this weekend those memories seemed a lifetime away as he told Sunday Life of the dozens of relatives he has now been reunited with in Ulster . |