Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , he acquainted himself with the meanings of the songs he heard them singing , songs of love and emigration ; with inheritances and alliances between these western chieftains ; with the size and topography of Raasay and its suitability for animal husbandry .
2 So he has me do that and on other songs he has me play bass .
3 Slater said , and Graham felt his eyes widening , that pulling back of the skin towards the ears he thought he had seen frozen on her face , Left ?
4 pulling a different way , I used to pull it with my legs he pulls it with his back .
5 She struggled furiously , but it was little use , and at the top of the steps he set her on her feet .
6 In all these respects he reminds us today of Schleiermacher .
7 Yeah because he said as soon as they see arrears he said they insist that it 's paid up and they insist that you have like three months pay them no problem he said
8 And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and
9 After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango .
10 The priest , standing in front of them , was relaying Siward 's message , which contained words he thought he had forgotten .
11 They 're out for a laugh , I mean Charlie wo n't even tell me who he fancies because erm he says , you know , he said to me , you know , and in , in , in , and in his exact words he said you 've got to be really stupid to tell anyone anything in this place and I said yeah but I 'm not a proper Haileyburian I 've just come in , you know he goes yeah but you 're gon na get that way
12 He returned with a symphonic battle piece , and when I asked if he realized the significance of the words he admitted he did not know what they meant ! )
13 There were no photographs around , but what a fool she was to imagine that the expression in his eyes meant more than the harsh words he dealt her .
14 Some of the words he used I had never heard of — and I am not unfamiliar with words — but he savoured them , rolled them over his tongue and finally ejected them into his speech with a delight at their novelty , their colour and their music .
15 She is a Christian woman and she whispers some of the words he called her .
16 Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one .
17 All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person .
18 Giant-fiend of a hundred hands , with a shower of arrowy death-pangs he transpierced me , and then he became a wolf , and lay a-gnawing at my bones !
19 I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency .
20 In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go .
21 I only read a little in the books he gave me , picked up what I could .
22 When Nora 's dress fell to her knees he pulled her swiftly to him , trying to lift her off the ground .
23 couple of months he said he , it could be a couple of years , it depends on how quick it get , work gets done and how long they think they need you .
24 Harper told the court he 'd gone out with both Becky and Emma in the 6 months he knew them .
25 What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving .
26 Every couple of months he takes me aside and , his breath sweet with trapped drink , asks me how I am .
27 I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks .
28 From a hundred feet he raked it from side to side and back again .
29 The exp , he he showed his acceptance of her by lifting his blanket and so , covering her , a blanket at his feet he covered her with and in this little song was , cover me , extend the border .
30 A row erupted and when they reached Craylands he threw her to the ground and blasted her twice with a shotgun .
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