Example sentences of "he [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it would be a complete disaster for him if you came back into his life . ’ |
| 2 | She would cut off her right arm and give it to him if he came over with as much as a single bag . |
| 3 | And half these buggers would n't recognize him if he came in with a label on Rugby supporters , pah ! |
| 4 | We told Frank that we would support him if he stood up to the little tyrant , that he would feel better if he did , citing our own experiences , mine in particular . |
| 5 | ‘ I know you 're awake , ’ she said , snuggling up to him , putting her arm round him , pushing gently against him until she fitted in with his body , becoming one person in the big bed . |
| 6 | The boy fought wildly for a few seconds but then his right arm was bent back behind him until he called out in the most desperate agony he had ever known . |
| 7 | He listened in rapt concentration as Mr Mercer described how one soldier shot off his leg and threatened to kill him until he shouted back at him ‘ in best barrack room invective ’ . |
| 8 | And then , when he could n't step back any further , he would walk forward , watching the shadow shrink before him until it ended up as a small and pathetic figure beneath his feet . |
| 9 | His father , John William Gannon , said his son had been living with him since he split up with his wife in January . |
| 10 | She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire . |
| 11 | But I believed him before I found out about him and Silvia . |
| 12 | I spent some time with him after he drove back into the pit-lane and he was very categorical about his decision : ‘ It is simply not worth it , ’ he said . |
| 13 | They bumped into him as they went back through the wire and held a whispered council of war . |
| 14 | He took her arm and she nestled against him as they walked back to the car . |
| 15 | ‘ Colder than this , ’ Schellenberg told him as they moved out through French windows and sat at a table on the pleasant terrace . |
| 16 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 17 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 18 | He thought that he left the church unnoticed , but Isobel saw him as she stepped out of her pew , and , as far as anything could penetrate to her at such a time , she was touched by his solicitude . |
| 19 | I screamed at him as I ran off through the woods . |
| 20 | Bumping and alarmed shouts rose behind him as he ran out in ecstasy , tumbling heels over head down the last twists of the stair , to tell his mother he was a castle ghillie now ! |
| 21 | The reporter thanked him , and the camera tracked him as he trudged over to the other members of the team and they headed together towards a dark crack in the hillside . |
| 22 | Rachel watched him as he tramped back through the fruit trees towards the house . |
| 23 | A smell of new shoes from another workshop wafted around him as he looked up at the old , stopped clock jutting out , two-faced , over the pavement from the first floor of the workshop , hands frozen at twenty-past-two ( he glanced at his watch ; it was actually 3:49 ) . |
| 24 | He could hear him as he walked on towards the gate . |
| 25 | Peter watched him as he walked down to the lych gate . |
| 26 | Old Sprout , the greengrocer , banging the door behind him as he comes out of his shop , loosens half a card-load of snow , which skids off his roof and pancakes on the pavement , missing his head by no more than a foot . |
| 27 | She could barely turn her head to watch him as he backed out of the room and closed the door ; a moment later , the sounds of the fire irons against stone resumed . |
| 28 | Frozen with shock , she stared at him as he leaned back in his chair . |
| 29 | She sat opposite him as he leaned back in his seat and observed her through gold-rimmed spectacles , and she still felt uneasy with this man . |
| 30 | Other miscellaneous missiles rained in on him as he clambered down from the improvised platform with the help of his small band of left-wing brothers . |