Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder . |
| 32 | Had Mariot 's lips moved under his when he kissed her ? |
| 33 | He bustled in one day , rubbing his hands , a fashion of his when he had something unpleasant on his mind . |
| 34 | To be on the safe side , he burnt his when he got home , presumably unaware that this was , liturgically , the ‘ correct ’ and Catholic thing to do , though some forty-six weeks too early . |
| 35 | She smiled trustingly at him and his heart melted the way it did when his small nieces slipped their hands into his when he took them out . |
| 36 | A woman rather shy of men , whose eyes did not quite meet his when he looked at her . |
| 37 | I could see that predatory gleam in those dark eyes of his when he looked at you . ’ |
| 38 | Well-informed on Cnut 's doings , and a valuable source on his dealings with the pope and the German emperor in Rome and his Scandinavian wars , it is similar to Wulfstan 's material in ordering intolerance of injustice and prompt payment of church dues , but can not be his as he died in 1023 . |
| 39 | She admitted it tempestuously as Luke deprived her of the erotic stimulation of his mouth , opening her eyes just in time to see the blaze of triumph in his as he heard her . |
| 40 | Abandoning herself to the overpowering intoxication of his embrace , she parted her lips beneath his as he ravished the inner sweetness of her mouth . |
| 41 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 42 | Dazed , overwhelmed with the need and intensity that had sizzled between them since they first met , Rachel did less than resist ; she actively acquiesced , arching her body against his as he slid on to the bed on top of her , and his hoarsely muttered words were bitter-sweet to her ears as he renewed the kiss , his heart thudding above her as his hands began to stroke and explore her passionately responsive body . |
| 43 | Luckily Wolves did n't last night … and Town keep Fraser Digby had springs in his as he pulled off the save of the game … |
| 44 | To my astonishment and chagrin Ellen left her hand in his as he opened his eyes and smiled at her . |
| 45 | It had seemed to him that her eyes looked right into his as he stood in the darkened hall , staring into the room . |
| 46 | Angrily he crushed her mouth harder against his as he plundered her lips with a ferocity that took her breath away . |
| 47 | For his part he noticed , not the dress but the slender-waisted , full-breasted figure it adorned ; the pretty face and the abundant dark hair which the bonnet framed ; the large amber eyes which met his as he helped her in . |
| 48 | Duncan was too afraid to taste them so he shut his baby dinosaur lips and shook his head again . |
| 49 | Although not exactly stuck for words , nothing that he has said has yet entered the language . |
| 50 | It 's not for nothing that he has earned his reputation as Scotland 's most effective ‘ company doctor ’ . |
| 51 | The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know . |
| 52 | It was not for nothing that he paid house insurance . |
| 53 | It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble . |
| 54 | Well he keeps telling me that he keeps saying . |
| 55 | Anthony once told me that he thinks ‘ bodily fidelity is wholly irrelevant ’ , ’ she quoted bitterly . |
| 56 | He told me that he made a point of seeing one pantomime a year . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | In yet another shop , a lad told me that he hoped to obtain a more powerful model in about a month but he did n't have any literature I could look at . |
| 59 | John Wright remarked to me that he met some strange friends through John who , while still a teenager , was obviously finding friends of a congenial bohemianism akin to his own . |
| 60 | He told me that he meant me no harm , but was a magician , who had made the music play around me , and wished to have my hand in marriage and live in my castle , with me and my brother , in peace hereafter . |