Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see 'd him there , I cuts him down , I loosened the noose and it falls in the water . ’ |
| 2 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
| 3 | Cos someone picks him up like that |
| 4 | Someone picks him up like that then bends him over |
| 5 | Well I gets him pulled out of the ditch and I brings him down and it 's the time I , I had Sarah boil up the boiler for the pigs . |
| 6 | Fanny drives with his usual relish , turning the wheel with exaggerated movements and indulging one of his favourite habits , which involves him sporadically singing the chorus of some great Woodstockesque opus . |
| 7 | The English-speaking world , which reveres him quite as much as does Iberia , knows him as Ferdinand Magellan . |
| 8 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 9 | He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition : |
| 10 | He had a bleeper in his house which wakes him up for every call though for insurance reasons he can not join the men . |
| 11 | It is perhaps Warr 's amalgam of democratic ideals with an advanced sense of history , both past and future , which marks him out as a significant political thinker of his time . |
| 12 | The idea of service is extended to include the work that the manager does when he leaves his office , and it is this devotion to duty which marks him off from all the others . |
| 13 | There is nothing which cuts him off from the early sociologists in his basic assumptions about the importance of instincts and their interaction with men 's cultures . |
| 14 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 15 | The topic he is speaking on is one which interests him greatly ( much more so than his own lecture topic ) but it is also one on which he is not recognised as an authoritative speaker . |
| 16 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 17 | Which takes him off |
| 18 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 19 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 20 | Isaac relies completely on his senses , each of which lets him down — even the sense of taste on which he prided himself . |
| 21 | His great serve and forehand are technical merits , but it 's his drive which singles him out . ’ |
| 22 | Finstown is still served by an old-fashioned exchange , a fact which bothers him little . |
| 23 | Osric gets 12lb from Beech Road and 6lb from Cruising Altitude , which puts him in with a chance . |
| 24 | One of our members , my best mate Steve Frost , has a really brilliant speciality which means he never actually visits grounds at all . |
| 25 | ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Chappie stayed on and scored , which sums him up — it sounds stupid but he can be at his best when he 's injured ! ’ |
| 27 | which touches him yet goes beyond |
| 28 | A bachelor friend of mine takes great pride in culinary art which leaves him never short of admiring girlfriends . |
| 29 | He spoke French with a strong Russian accent cultivated for the occasion , which suggests he also recognized me . |
| 30 | It is a surge of adrenalin which makes him even more determined to achieve success . |