Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E said 'e wants loads o' babies . |
| 2 | Yer know 'ow 'e loves boxin' . |
| 3 | ‘ 'E loves Rachel an' 'e 'd give me the top brick off the chimney if I asked 'im , but 'e 's a worrier . |
| 4 | ‘ E treated our Nancy when she 'ad w'oopin' cough , but 'e told Mrs Walker that 'er varicose veins is provin' obstinate . |
| 5 | After all , 'e chooses ti sit wi' 'er , when there 's all t'men for 'im ti sit and talk ti . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Danny met 'im when 'e finished work . |
| 7 | I only 'ope 'e finds time ter marry this 'un , whoever she is . ’ |
| 8 | I always knew there was somefink a bit fishy about that bloke when 'e lodged wiv Florrie . |
| 9 | ‘ If yer miss payin' 'e 'll do the same as 'e did wiv us . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , George said Broom'ead 's got a litter o' kittens in the stable where 'e keeps 'is 'orse an' 'e said Aggie can 'ave one of 'em fer two bob . ’ |
| 11 | As for the future , Clayton hopes to produce a book of selected work and is trying to convince his superiors to let him cover sport full time for the SMH , though he keeps an open mind . |
| 12 | For years I was trying to get him to go part time but he always put it off . |
| 13 | ‘ I want him to go south immediately , to Godstowe . |
| 14 | ‘ I told him to go jump in a lake , ’ Ellen said very calmly , ‘ and then I told him that just as soon as I 've finished with the Crowninshield twins I shall be sailing away — ’ she clinked her glass on mine , ‘ with you . ’ |
| 15 | His chief financial adviser , Simon Scher , a young Englishman who , after Cambridge , had trained at the Harvard Business School , was urging him to go public . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell him to go fuck himself ! ’ |
| 17 | After years of thinking of Bailey in terms of neutral tones , within the technical restrictions of black and white , it is a shock to see him using slashes of colour : yellow , red , blue , green . |
| 18 | His real interests , however , increasingly came to lie in science and eventually his father paid for him to attend University College London , where he studied chemistry . |
| 19 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |
| 20 | His research into the possible use of guerrillas led him to champion preparations for all types of irregular operations , although he could make little headway against the traditional thinking of those directing military operations . |
| 21 | The new provision differs from the old in one significant way , by altering the terminology in which the Act is couched from the senior police officer 's ‘ opinion ’ that he is unable to prevent the serious public disorder to ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the imposition of conditions will not enable him to preserve order . |
| 22 | HERBERT Blaize , a courtly politician of a bygone Caribbean era , believed God had chosen him to restore democracy to Grenada after 7,000 US troops invaded his island in 1983 to overthrow its marxist rulers . |
| 23 | It was an unfair advantage , though ; it made it harder for him to evade answering . |
| 24 | He went to Gouesnou during a recent visit to meet friends who helped him to evade capture for a time . |
| 25 | Men like him became lynchpins in Sussex rural society , serving not only as tenant farmers but also as parish churchwardens and constables , helping to maintain a semblance of order and to interpret the gentry 's will in their communities . |
| 26 | I did n't ring him to borrow money , because he never has any to lend . |
| 27 | He wanted an open relationship after a while which meant him bringing bits of trade back and then saying could n't we be just sisters ? |
| 28 | She 'd had no chance even to tell David that her family would be at OBEX the following day , so it could be as much a shock for him seeing Jennifer as it would be for her sister . |
| 29 | ‘ We did n't overdo or over emphasize Ken 's neuterism because we had him make love or going after it , but we knew that underneath it all was another character . ’ |
| 30 | Downstairs he let me watch him make tea ( in the outer cellar ) , and something ridiculous he said made me laugh — or want to laugh . |