Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie would be set to work at the big sink , and before he washed each plate and roasting-pan he would scrape it clean with his fingers and eat every last scrap of chicken , sage and onion stuffing , corned beef , sliced Spam and cheese . |
| 2 | As a freelance journalist he could report them because just enough editors were just sufficiently interested to pay him just enough for doing so . |
| 3 | With Wagner in mind he could say it now . |
| 4 | It did not matter that Ben could not physically see the pages of the journal : in his mind he could turn them anyway and read the tall columns of cyphers . |
| 5 | My father was so good with his gun that even in the dark he could bring 'em down . |
| 6 | But she never dared ask him , for fear he would tell her ) — the grocer treated her to infrequent smiles and would give occasional chocolates to Victoria , who would go back to the toyshop with a heavy brown moustache and sideburns . |
| 7 | Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her . |
| 8 | If she wore a skirt he would think she cared what he thought . |
| 9 | They had worked out their monthly budget to the last pound , and if Norman thought she was going to eat this overpriced muck with a perfectly good cold supper waiting in the refrigerator at home and a decent programme on the telly he could forget it . |
| 10 | He would pump away until he was exhausted , as though by sheer force he could inject her with fertile seed . |
| 11 | Certainly no one should ever know just how much distress he could cause her . |
| 12 | There are fears that as President he would sting them with stiffer tax bills . |
| 13 | When he found the Key he 'd get them . |
| 14 | Auxilliary nurse at BUPA Murrayfield Hospital Michael Douglas told the jury at Liverpool Crown Court : ‘ If he was talking about his marriage he would say they were breaking up or that she was leaving him . |
| 15 | In a second he would kill me . |
| 16 | And he landed out at the Dardanelles , and here they discovered his age he was away near , he was fif about fifty six or something or fifty eight or something and he was out there in the Dar and they packed him straight back home but oh boy he could tell you the stories about America . |
| 17 | He came to start again , to build a home he could bring you to , even if only for your holidays . |
| 18 | If he ever found this girl he would thank her for choosing to live in that quarter of the city . |
| 19 | What else could she do but go on , fearing that at any moment he would realize she 'd tricked him ? |
| 20 | At any moment he could let me fall , and we were at least three hundred metres above the ground . |
| 21 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 22 | When we used to go to town he used to get her out and carry her . |
| 23 | To be married would be diverting ; she would be free to do as she pleased , and Paul was such a dear he would cause her no anxiety . |
| 24 | like if you left a note for the postman he 'd drop it through the door |
| 25 | do n't we get a great big saucepan lid he can give them bill ? |
| 26 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 27 | When they nagged her to let them go , she conveyed to Kit he should allow it . |
| 28 | " Mrs Plant , " Timothy said quite softly , and Mr Plant whispered that if he issued another sound he would thump him to a pulp . |
| 29 | The only sensation he could equate it with was that remoteness that comes during a long run , when the lines of the play get delivered every night , but the actor 's mind is miles away , thinking about anything but the performance he is giving . |
| 30 | It had become as comforting and necessary as a religious ritual , the brief preliminary washing which was like a dedication , the final ablution which was both a necessary chore and an absolution , as if by wiping the smell of his job from his body he could cleanse it from his mind . |