Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What a coy little polyp you are , to be sure , ’ said the doctor , but he eventually lassoed and dispatched it too . |
| 2 | Frantically she tried to escape from his tightening grip , but he merely laughed and trapped her against the hatch with his body . |
| 3 | When Farquhar nudged his hand with the bottle , he merely grunted and gripped it , rolling over to face away from his dallta as he drank . |
| 4 | His eyes crinkling , he merely stood and watched her . |
| 5 | She tried hooking her fingers round the door and pulling , but he only laughed and grabbing her , dragged her to him , kissing the part nearest his face , which happened to be the base of her neck . |
| 6 | But , having found what he evidently wanted , he only frowned and waved her away once more . |
| 7 | He just laughed and told me that his old one was well good enough for whenever the time came for me to take over . |
| 8 | So you sit down with The Hook and ask him about what it was like in the '60s in London , when he was lionised by Van Morrison , The Animals , Peter Green and all the gut-bucket R&B bands , but he just laughs and says it was fun . |
| 9 | And when I asked him what would happen if it got known he just smiled and said I could talk if I wanted to . |
| 10 | But he soon returned and attacked her again . |
| 11 | Jesus does not destroy our person , he always enhances and deepens it . |
| 12 | He both expected and accepted it as a matter of course . |
| 13 | Marcos supporters have asked the Supreme Court to reverse the ban , but Mrs Aquino , who ousted Mr Marcos in a ‘ people 's power ’ revolt in 1986 , said : ‘ The return of this man and his minions poses a greater threat to the democratic constitution he ironically invokes than denying him entry would tend to subvert the fundamental law . ’ |
| 14 | Armed with a knife he told her she was going to die and after ordering her to undress he sexually abused and raped her . |
| 15 | I seethe with frustration , but he simply smiles and tells me not to fret . |
| 16 | Sometimes he managed to abstract a page he particularly liked and take it home , He had a whole article on a young actress who had been asked to model some clothes . |
| 17 | ‘ When he let me pass , he then slipstreamed and overtook me again . |
| 18 | He then filmed and photographed them as they were enveloped by seaweed and marine concretions . |
| 19 | There are several mirrors in our house , as you would expect , but he never confronts or consults them . |
| 20 | He never went and did it … . ’ |
| 21 | And suddenly she felt fierce anger flare up inside her at the way he continually misjudged and denied her and seemed to reject every good and decent thing about her . |