Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aloud he said he would stay for another night and take her place on the constituency slate . |
| 2 | She had often tired him with her chatter , with her bursts of personal revelations , ‘ Today I feel this — yesterday I felt that , ’ but suddenly he wished she would talk to him . |
| 3 | YAKOV TOLSTIKOV is among the favourites to win one of the big-money prizes in the ADT London Marathon on Sunday , but however much he makes he will struggle to spend it when he returns home to Siberia . |
| 4 | Only he said he would return forthwith and I was surprised at his continued absence . ’ |
| 5 | he says , look er , he says , cos I for somebody he said if I could , if he knew somebody that could take me down he says I would leave the mini for ya |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps he thinks you 'd get on , ’ said Betty sarcastically , ‘ — have a lot in common . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 8 | Perhaps he thought I might have an interesting story to tell . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps he thought I 'd make the rehearsals lively . |
| 10 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 11 | this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't |
| 12 | So he said I should forget it . |
| 13 | So he said you 'll have to stay in then wo n't ya ? |
| 14 | We all it is ba , well I say all it is this bloody great strip right be between the ceiling and the walls , the right length of corridor and the manager see it and he said look that should be shiny sort of like and it 's all pitted so he said you 'll have to go up here he said and do it all with steel abrasive said fair enough . |
| 15 | So he thinks I should do you because he despises me , too , and he thinks I 'm God 's scum . |
| 16 | so he says I 'll give him it after . |
| 17 | She went up with little lad and he were watching it and he says I would n't mind this , well Arthur says I 'd al he 'd already taped it off telly and so he says I 'll tell you what you can have it if you give me a blank |
| 18 | he said , now look you lost eighty pound out of that draw I said yes I did they 'll only allow you fifty so he says I 'll say these cuff links are worth thirty pound , so he was on my side were n't he ? |
| 19 | And so he decided he could get about three caravans on the the price that my bungalow was occupying . |
| 20 | So he say they 'll give it to you back so that 's what they done they give me me money back , cos they 'd already give him back his , you see . |
| 21 | Far away he thought he could see some goats grazing . |
| 22 | Anyway he says he 'd pay him the same money as what he 's on there , 'cos he 'd have to really , would n't just say , say |
| 23 | Legend has it that Rawlins remembered the lot although yesterday he confessed he might have forgotten one . |
| 24 | If he could not come home he knew he would die , too . |
| 25 | says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ? |
| 26 | mine wrapped up he said I 'll take you over but you 've got to have all your presents wrapped up , I said yeah alright . |
| 27 | He come back to me he says , it 's spilling over the top because the chutes are blocked up he says I 'll tell the track driver , the track driver says , Oh well get the to clean that up . |
| 28 | At first he thought an adult must have caused them but now he thought she could have been dropped by a child . |
| 29 | He had wondered how the KGB would react to the Reznichenko Memorandum ; now he saw they must have been analysing the pattern long before it had occurred to him . |
| 30 | Now he says he 'll continue to campaign for other former employees who 've been left without pensions . |