Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [subord] he [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days after he mailed it , he telephoned his friend and colleague at Aphrodisias , in Anatolia , and called off his visit . |
| 2 | Without consulting the master layout plan I have no idea which square yard H24/V72 occupies on the pitch , once the biggest in England until former manager Billy Bremner lopped off a few yards because he thought it put the team at a disadvantage when playing away ( they must now be regretting all those lost square yards they could be selling ) . |
| 3 | Cadfael stooped and picked it up , and the thicker end , broken and dangling , shed a fluttering debris of tindery flakes as he swung it in his hand . |
| 4 | He sat in the driver 's seat to get the feel for a few moments before he started it up . |
| 5 | The phone rang half a dozen times before he answered it . |
| 6 | John Wesley discussed faith in these terms when he compared it to a ‘ spiritual sense ’ in his Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion : |
| 7 | Ballesteros worries about such heavy defeats because he finds it incomprehensible that he has been unable to repel the thrusts of those opponents . |
| 8 | This can ( and occasionally did ) lead to a situation in which a linguist claims that the ‘ data ’ he is using illustrates acceptable linguistic strings because he says it does , as a result of personal introspection , and regardless of how many voices arise in disagreement . |
| 9 | The hay was only alight for 3 seconds before he put it out with his hand . |
| 10 | How Brecht would laugh to know that over 60 years after he wrote it , people were still being shocked by the words of third stanza , and like his own creator , Rosa Valleti , refusing to sing them ! |
| 11 | well you know if I , I said is it gon na cause any problems when he did it , cos it was er , it was er , to me |
| 12 | And he went to the bank and he got him three thousand pound ready and he got this beautiful car , he had n't it eighteen months before he wrapped it round a tree . |
| 13 | In 1959 , fifty-one years after he intended it should be published , D. H. Lawrence 's notorious novel Lady Chatterley 's Lover made its unexpurgated appearance in the United States . |
| 14 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 15 | He was the head of fine art at the school of art for 20 years until he gave it all up to paint fulltime . |
| 16 | He was known at the Wayfarers ' Refuge in Cosway Street in St Marylebone , an excellent place , where he usually got a midday meal and medical attention for minor ailments when he needed it . |
| 17 | Barnett steadied the heavy tumbler of neat whisky with both hands as he brought it to his lips . |
| 18 | Broken apart by force , the lid splintered , the box shed a handful of stones and a drift of dead leaves as he turned it upside down and shook it ruefully . |