Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he emptied his bladder he stared at his face in the shaving mirror . |
| 2 | His re-election to Parliament came in 1679 in Rochester , for which borough he sat until 1690 ; thereafter , until 1694 , he represented Queenborough and finally Maidstone again in 1695–8 . |
| 3 | A son of Green Desert , Magic Ring is out of an Empery mare and there are indications that he will stay a mile despite the amazing speed he displayed as a juvenile . |
| 4 | She looked up at him and he acknowledged her presence by a brief glance , but without slackening speed he rode past her , towards the wood . |
| 5 | With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old . |
| 6 | This view is developed in a way which partly reduplicates the misleading tactics he identifies at work in the 1950s . |
| 7 | The glance he directed at Gebrec held a hint of malice and was greeted with an angry frown . |
| 8 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 9 | His expression for once had lost that unyielding look , and uncertainty flickered for an instant in the glance he bestowed on her . |
| 10 | Then without a backward glance he fled towards the French windows , clutching the offending animal under his arm . |
| 11 | Tony stood up immediately , realising that it would be difficult for his father to sing the Irish songs he sang at parties , usually sad songs of loss and parting . |
| 12 | As for Kristofferson , his voice is barely serviceable , but he is a valuable presence in this quartet of songwriters , not least because the songs he brought to Nashville in the Sixties reconnected country with the street . |
| 13 | For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion . |
| 14 | He thought always much too easily , in highly unrealistic terms , of the peoples he ruled as a mere aggregate of individuals face to face with an absolute State . |
| 15 | Racing is often cruelly unfair , however , and while Top Class looks marvellous each-way value , Brittain 's dreams of victory could be wrecked by Golden Pheasant , a horse he trained in the early part of the season . |
| 16 | Shrugging the collar higher around tingling ears he thought of Carrie . |
| 17 | It 's a debate Howe understandably does does not want to enter into but he has noticed a similarity between the current team and the Arsenal side he coached to the Double 21 years ago — coincidentally , the same season the Blues won their last major honour , the Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 18 | For a newcomer into single seaters he seems to be doing well . |
| 19 | It took Ray years to discover the mix of speedwork and mile repetitions he needed for improving his race times . |
| 20 | The fact that his form has been positively Bradmanesque may have something to do with this , but one suspects it has more to do with the ‘ Get Out of Jail Free ’ card he appears to be clutching . |
| 21 | In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) . |
| 22 | By means not specified , from Portugal he arrived in Victorian England , where he got the idea that Lady Laetitia Winthrop ( played by a ‘ discovery ’ from the world of modelling , whose acting talent was 36-23-36 ) was his long-lost love from a world before the subterranean cavern . |
| 23 | Back in the forest the Doctor discovers the Daleks have taken the piece he sabotaged from the TARDIS . |
| 24 | Appropriately , he has sent us a letter about a piece he saw in last Thursday 's Diary . |
| 25 | He is able to run his part-time practice in Leyburn he worked in Darlington and Richmond before that around the racing calendar . |
| 26 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 27 | So did the Famlio thugs , after Pulvidon he snarled at them , not wanting to be out doing . |
| 28 | and I was gon na go and apply for but then Neil he sent for me and just asked me , just told me there was a job come up in the office and if I wanted it |
| 29 | and I bi , you know that big loft I helped get the , get the la big lathe he bought from the |
| 30 | In his reasoning he referred to Augustine 's assertion that God could make a perfect man who would not wish to sin . |