Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 2 | He said I pays my poll tax he says and I am paying out of my savings he said now what the heck will I do when my bloody savings is gone . |
| 3 | pulling a different way , I used to pull it with my legs he pulls it with his back . |
| 4 | When I got to my feet he took the injured arm in both his hands , told me to shut my eyes and start counting . |
| 5 | As I clamber to my feet he starts to run . |
| 6 | Like if I sit there painting my nails he 'll say what started that ? |
| 7 | When he had answered my questions he made an effort and blurted out one of his own . |
| 8 | While Fiona was still on her way the medics stuffed Harry full of antibiotics and other palliatives and put stitches where they were needed , and by the time she 'd wept briefly in my arms he was warm and responding nicely in a recovery room somewhere . |
| 9 | Between shouts to the dock hands unloading my trunks he asked , ‘ You 've got the drugs I cabled for ? ’ |
| 10 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 11 | And then , if somebody else clicks their fingers they be tha they become their enemy and the enemy if they click their fingers he becomes their enemy . |
| 12 | To his horror Henry saw that as he had been brushing her teeth he had started to grip her neck , hard . |
| 13 | He often brought her scraps he had filched from the instructors ' table . |
| 14 | Drawing the sheet up over her shoulders he saw how the bruising on her neck was developing . |
| 15 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 16 | Defenders of the Jewish American pieties and proprieties , and those in Israel for whom the Diaspora Jew is a rootless cosmopolitan , had marked Roth as a bad man , and in their eyes he has yet to turn into a good one . |
| 17 | Did he survive because he was essentially provincial , unable to compete with the main creators of his own day , disregarded because in their eyes he did not count for much anyway ? |
| 18 | With a growled exclamation against her lips he tightened one hand in the silky blonde strands , and slid the other down to trace lightly the hollow at the base of her throat , then lower to skim the striped silk of her blouse over the swell of her breasts , an expert , fleeting exploration which drew a gasp of reaction from her yet left her taut and shivering in frustrated anger … |
| 19 | She gasped out the words as his dark head bent towards her , but instead of kissing her lips he let his mouth trail over her neck , nuzzling under her hair until shivers started to race down her spine . |
| 20 | As he turned and looked into her eyes he knew instinctively there was no need to worry on that score . |
| 21 | In her eyes he was a sad , lonely man who needed looking after . |
| 22 | She came towards him ; in her eyes he could see the dread of what was to be . |
| 23 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 24 | In return for their addresses he would allow me to stop doing press-ups in the mud . |
| 25 | When Nora 's dress fell to her knees he pulled her swiftly to him , trying to lift her off the ground . |
| 26 | It had , of course , gone the way of all their parties he could remember and turned into an excuse for grown-up drinking , talk , dancing and all that cuddling and kissing stuff he inescapably associated with his mother . |
| 27 | Now it belonged to Frankie , and while he secretly warmed himself in its folds he spared little thought for the comfort of its previous owner . |
| 28 | Through its columns he attacked the BDDA leadership as " slovenly , slow and cliquish " , and claimed that " properly managed , the BDDA should have a membership of at least one thousand deaf-mutes , not counting missionaries and other sympathisers " . |
| 29 | As the two women were saying their goodbyes he came to the end of his task , switched off the motor-mower and headed with it towards the narrow gate at the side of the house . |
| 30 | As she got to her feet he looked underneath her , remembering the equipment cows had , and saw that she had a semblance of the same thing , although nothing like so dangly as a cow 's , but quite satisfactorily dripping at that moment with what he supposed was milk . |