Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An investigations unit would be set up in London , staffed by reputable heavyweight journalists he had already selected . |
| 2 | Some of the apparatus is made by Philips and Westinghouse , some by manufacturers he has never heard o It all looks slightly unfamiliar . |
| 3 | Quiss could feel himself starting to s " " eat already , despite having left most of his furs lying at the top of the steps he had just descended . |
| 4 | And more than once he lost his way because he was remembering the bluest eyes he had ever seen . |
| 5 | I conjure you by the bitter tears shed on the Cross by our Saviour the Lord JESUS Christ for the salvation of the world , and by the burning tears poured in the evening hour over His wounds by the most glorious Virgin MARY , His Mother , and by all the tears which have been shed here in this world by the Saints and Elect of God from whose eyes He has now wiped away all tears , that if you be innocent you do now shed tears , but if you be guilty that you shall by no means do so . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if he 's so decent , ’ said Amiss , as he donned the pyjamas he had specially bought for the purposes of room-sharing , ‘ why does he allow us to be fed so badly ? ’ |
| 7 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
| 8 | Though Spouse says Elspeth defies the idea that You Ca n't Take It With You and will join her ancestors wearing her best tweed and Celtic silver and clutching the two cut-glass decanters he has always coveted . |
| 9 | The shops he had just examined stretched all the way back to the churchyard wall and their rear windows , set grimly amongst the headstones and mausoleums , had to be checked too . |
| 10 | He walked slowly up the familiar road admiring the shops he had once dreamed of owning . |
| 11 | As ever , it would be the climax ; this time the climax of one of the finest performances he had ever witnessed . |
| 12 | Exercising his body slowly and with care in the practice court , Lucien was aware that , despite the cross words he 'd just had with Azmaveth , he was actually content in his new surroundings . |
| 13 | As Sheila watched him go , she knew that in spite of the hurtful words he had just spoken she would always have a soft spot for the man . |
| 14 | He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room . |
| 15 | Her smart blue blazer sported a golden eagle surrounded by words he had never seen before . |
| 16 | Is he aware that the words he has just used are exactly the same as those that were used by his predecessor just before her Government increased VAT ? |
| 17 | Sometimes they were misty and abstract , especially when one talked intimately of the past , of subjects he had long forgotten — or wanted to forget — awakening memories — nightmares ? — from deep within . |
| 18 | Anthony Summers specialises in works of investigation , with the assassination of John F Kennedy , the life and death of Marilyn Monroe and the Profumo scandal among the subjects he has previously taken on . |
| 19 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
| 20 | Wondered if he could imagine the semi-asleep furies he 'd already reawakened . |
| 21 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 22 | With his tie awry , an alert pair of eyes sparkling behind gold-rimmed spectacles , he impressed the party by coming to the point rather than indulging in what he called the prefabricated speeches he had always hated . |
| 23 | In the last few months he had consciously ingratiated himself with Joe , flattered him , let Joe think that he was grateful to him for giving him the breaker 's job . |
| 24 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 25 | Inquiries among certain dealers in this country have established that while Saatchi has been selling extremely heavily during the past six months he has actually bought very little British art . |
| 26 | At Limoges he had ostentatiously donated a cloak embroidered with the words Henricus Rex to the monks of St Martial 's . |
| 27 | On his feet he has also had considerable success running the 100 and 200 metres , together with the long jump , winning outright in all three . |
| 28 | He says it was one of the best sexual experiences he has ever had . ’ |
| 29 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 30 | Mr Lamont told the other ministers that in speaking of fault lines he had merely meant that the British and German economies were out of phase . |