Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lured me there a couple of years ago to talk to his sixth form group about the Irish problem . |
| 2 | He used it almost every day , often spending a whole afternoon on it . |
| 3 | That sketch was written by Harold Pinter and he played it straight the way Pinter wrote it , with the nuances that Pinter intended , the pauses in the right place . |
| 4 | On that first visit he told her quite a bit about himself . |
| 5 | He personalised it , he told him exactly the benefit of escalating premiums , and he could n't say anything other than yes , because it was what he wanted . |
| 6 | He told me quite a lot about his experiences during our stay in hospital together . |
| 7 | One room he showed me only a glimpse of , a lumber-room . |
| 8 | The hair that God had left him was sparse , dry and vertical , as if he brushed it forward every morning . |
| 9 | Of course — he pulled himself together a bit — as a scientist I find all these phenomena extremely interesting . |
| 10 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 11 | The flying hairdryer hit him just above the eye , flex trailing like the tail of a kite , and as he swatted it away the plug whipped around and smacked into his teeth . |
| 12 | From when I was very young , my father had nurtured a love of art in me ; I shared a great deal with him ( he took me nearly every Sunday to the Louvre ) and was close to him until his death . |
| 13 | ‘ Sam 's going to a new school , ’ Bella said , and time was oddly foreshortened in Albert 's head so that two or three minutes of silence passed between them and he thought it only a second . |
| 14 | Well , he sent me quite a series of postcards , and from them I was able to reconstruct a typical street corner . |
| 15 | I let Brownie out went up the back and there was Brownie in the Malone River then he saw me so no lead with me |
| 16 | In the theatre coffee-bar he brought them both a drink , then settled himself comfortably opposite her . |
| 17 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 18 | He did it once a year , on Boxing Day . |
| 19 | That was the general feeling but he did , he gave us about an hour and a half . |
| 20 | Gervaise knew of his existence before he died , and although he was n't able to acknowledge his son , he left him quite a fortune . ’ |
| 21 | As he nuzzled him gently the head rolled sideways and back again . |
| 22 | He was a big man with a fine moustache about the same age as her father had been , Emily guessed , but it was quite apparent that he considered himself quite a dandy . |