Example sentences of "or [noun] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 2 | Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her . |
| 3 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 4 | Either Jamie Baird was particularly close to Puddephat , or Puddephat wanted him to be . |
| 5 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |