Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | The glance he directed at Gebrec held a hint of malice and was greeted with an angry frown . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His expression for once had lost that unyielding look , and uncertainty flickered for an instant in the glance he bestowed on her . |
| 9 | Then without a backward glance he fled towards the French windows , clutching the offending animal under his arm . |
| 10 | For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) . |
| 15 | Back in the forest the Doctor discovers the Daleks have taken the piece he sabotaged from the TARDIS . |
| 16 | Appropriately , he has sent us a letter about a piece he saw in last Thursday 's Diary . |
| 17 | and I bi , you know that big loft I helped get the , get the la big lathe he bought from the |
| 18 | In his reasoning he referred to Augustine 's assertion that God could make a perfect man who would not wish to sin . |
| 19 | The dialectical method of reasoning he borrowed from Engel ; and we should never under-estimate its importance in being a fundamental break with the tradition of Western philosophy . |
| 20 | Ben , watching him , saw once again how the light seemed trapped by the matt black surface of the heavy iron ring he wore on the index finger of his right hand . |
| 21 | The only ingredient he recognized on the prescription was caffeine . |
| 22 | Stamping up the stairs he went into the bedroom he shared with Eliza . |
| 23 | From his bedroom he communicated with the rest of the world through the power of the postage stamp . |
| 24 | ‘ Until very recently the bedroom he intended for Inez and himself was fully furnished , the bed made , pyjamas laid out , fresh flowers and a ticking clock on the bedside table . |
| 25 | I mean the one thing that Neil Webb can do , as you say he he 's missed a lot of football he played against our Reserves Thursday night , but the one thing he can do if he get an opportunity he can produce a telling ball . |
| 26 | Fergie has been saying that he was so concerned about my life-style away from football he called in Sir Matt Busby , the club doctor and even a parish priest to try to get me sorted out . |
| 27 | The white football he regarded as another non-starter . |
| 28 | As she joined him in the petit salon he came towards her with a prettily wrapped package in his hands . |
| 29 | On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity . |
| 30 | The emotion he generated about him in those moments was a pit of black silence . |