Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Professor Benson here were to make a very brief precis of the lecture he gave us in the wardroom this evening it might give them something more to think about . ’ |
| 2 | One day he finds something in the bottom of his shower . |
| 3 | All day he sees himself in the glass darkly |
| 4 | After a while he boiled something in the blackened tin suspended over the fire , stirring it with a white peeled twig , and then plunging the tin into the stream to cool it . |
| 5 | On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to . |
| 6 | He made them sing softly and then to sing loudly — smoking a cigar and strolling up and down with his walking-cane he had everyone in the audience completely under his control . |
| 7 | He sighed heavily , then taking back his heavily booted foot he kicked her in the chest , sending her skidding across the gravel . |
| 8 | George knelt on gravel , and taking the knife more firmly in his hand he stabbed her in the stomach . |
| 9 | For answer he pushed her in the shoulder , and when she almost tipped over the bird cage at her feet his other hand came out and , steadying her , he laughed down into her face as he said , ‘ Sarky little bitch , are n't you ? |
| 10 | Mr Denny said : ‘ He then told her to put her clothes back on but out of the blue he stabbed her in the neck . |
| 11 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 12 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
| 13 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 14 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 15 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |