Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young wheat especially , so pure and tender , woke in him the same emotion that he had when observing the face of a sleeping baby . |
| 2 | With his old-fashioned grace Murphy even mentioned in at least two speeches that he wondered whether the World Cup , and the impassioned pursuit of it by some countries , was really a good thing after all . |
| 3 | For a brief moment there was recognition in his eyes and he reached for he hand , pulling back before the contact was made . |
| 4 | The sarcasm in her tone was not lost on David and he grimaced as he followed her out of the office . |
| 5 | It 's got a lot to do with the melody but he sounds like he really means it . |
| 6 | If she had come into his mind he had operated his cancelling switch as he did when any of the denizens of Ecalpemos strayed into his thoughts . |
| 7 | His friend Sir Thomas Lauder of Grange and Fountainhall tells of one humorous incident where Geikie once followed a particularly pompous , pot-bellied and self-assertive porter through the marketplace sketching as he went until the victim got angry and chased him into a house from whose attic window Geikie completed the sketch with some extra touches to show features of indignation to perfect the picture . |
| 8 | He 'd had to break off for lack of an English verb that he remembered as soon as Bacci pronounced it . |
| 9 | But could that not be a new chance for a man to find in later life ‘ an emotional experience that he missed when his children were young ’ ? |
| 10 | But it is this commercial work that he sees as fulfilling a far more important function — it is the means by which he is able to fund his own personal projects . |
| 11 | and years ago Doctor said to me if you start to lose weight and y and y and I said if you 're you 're a plump girl so he said if you start to lose weight and you ca n't understand why try to put some on he said |
| 12 | Besides , he had keys if he arrived while she was out , so he would wait for her , especially having come all the way from Hong Kong , she comforted herself , with a vague feeling that she was somehow cheating . |
| 13 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
| 14 | He began to jot down figures in two columns and he talked as he wrote . |
| 15 | We turn left at the foot and come panting onto a platform where there 's only one old man sitting in his grandfather 's overcoat and he looks like he 's settled for the night . |
| 16 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |
| 17 | The initial interview with an MD seven years my junior was largely comfortable and amicable apart from the minor irritant when he asked if I thought I could relate to young people in the office . |
| 18 | Faldo conceded the French and Belgian Opens when victory seemed a formality and he bristled when I questioned these fallibilities during his march to triumph in the European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 19 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |
| 20 | The capped level , or whatever we like to call it , is the criteria that has been established by the Secretary of State , and he has said it is five per cent beyond the standard spending level and he says if Councils spend beyond that then he is liable to introduce his capping legislation and |
| 21 | ‘ Ross Perot is getting a good deal more attention than he deserves because there 's a perceived vacuum , ’ says Tsongas . |
| 22 | Oh yeah I mean you take now the erm , you could say nineteen twenty six bloke , I remember an old union bloke , he was on the railway and er , when they cleaned the fire out , cos he used to get all the out , and er these here firemen on cool it with a that 's when they first started to nationalize the docks and he said well , they er , he said waste that he said when nationalization come in , well there was a lot more wasted then after that . |
| 23 | The aircraft Crew Chief had a routine that he followed when opening the bomb doors and he always stood in the same place ; fairly adjacent to one of the doors . |
| 24 | ‘ My father was an industrial chemist and he said if you want to go and work for them , go and work for them . ’ |
| 25 | Dad told him I 'd lost that labouring job and he said if that was what I wanted to do , he had a job repairing houses he owns . ’ |
| 26 | He is a Benthamite and he reasons as follows . |
| 27 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 28 | V. P. Singh had launched an inquiry into the HDW submarine deal on April 9 , 1987 , three days before he resigned as Defence Minister in the Gandhi government [ see pp. 35381-82 ] . |
| 29 | It is suggested that there must usually be a special element in the employee/connection contact which creates a reasonable risk that the employee will be able to appropriate some part of the business when he leaves because of the chance that customers would seek him out on account of his knowledge of their requirements . |
| 30 | In answer to a question from me to that effect , he said in his charming way with the little smile that he wears when replying : " We shall have to look at it . " |