Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite still for the breeze had dropped and he vaguely registered that the women seemed to have gone . |
| 2 | The designer who today shows so little emotion was devastated and he still keeps a mural of revered fashion figures ( Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood are two of his heroines ) with Galeotti at the centre situated behind the enormous , clutter-free desk that 's one more powerful statement . |
| 3 | However , unknown to Lee , under his ball were bramble runners , so that when he came down to it , his hand got turned and he only moved the ball a few inches . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're not going to give me his name , either , no doubt , because he told you something he should n't have done and he probably did it because you paid him for it . ’ |
| 5 | And as both his hands moved and he gently cupped her breasts in his warm hold as though each were infinitely precious , a sigh of bliss , of need left her . |
| 6 | At last when the man 's legs were freed and he too was carried out to the waiting ambulance , Rachel stood up and flexed her cramped muscles . |
| 7 | Sixth , the employer 's will to resist trade union demands is weakened and he therefore ‘ settles closer to the union 's minimum acceptable increase than to his own maximum acceptable offer ’ . |
| 8 | The details to be included in the public registers to be established under the bill had yet to be decided but he personally favoured ‘ more information rather than less . ’ |
| 9 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 10 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 11 | On 30 June 1921 these elements coalesced and he suddenly saw that familiar landscape with new eyes . |
| 12 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |
| 13 | What he saw he painted as exactly as could be painted but he certainly knew when to catch each view in its most romantic moment . |
| 14 | My husband 's boat was beached and tied but he never fastened that knot . |
| 15 | Among friends and neighbours a farm worker 's skill was appreciated and he neither knew nor cared about the reputation of farm workers outside . |
| 16 | In fact , when all his debts were paid off , the money was quickly spent and he soon found himself waiting to collect his $55 a week on the unemployment line at 75 East 13th Street , where he happened to be caught by an eagle-eyed Life photographer before the film 's release . |
| 17 | It seemed another play was about to be abandoned but he finally arrived and leapt up to the platform to make a rather more dignified ‘ Entry into Jerusalem ’ . |
| 18 | His hair was tousled and he still looked a little sleepy , but he was fully dressed , which made her feel at a distinct disadvantage . |
| 19 | His influence in stemming the Swansea flow could not be overstated and he now looks certain to face his fellow countrymen in two weeks ' time . |
| 20 | His mates had all scored and he inexplicably had n't , in spite of the money he 'd blown on all those lime-green cocktails for the bleached slag in the dress with all the red spangles . |
| 21 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |
| 22 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 23 | He promised he would , but two weeks passed and he never returned . |
| 24 | The master was instructed to draw up an inventory of the whole stock in the sick wards ; some weeks passed but he still failed to do so . |
| 25 | The move was rejected and he then appealed to Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords Morison , Prosser , Penrose and Brand . |
| 26 | It was the first big opera he 'd conducted and he just did n't know how to do that , how to pace himself Incidentally he did the same thing when we recorded Peter Grimes and Reggie had to come in and help finish the recording . |
| 27 | The one Johnson 's enthusiasm faded and he soon drifted away from the sport ; the other had his first competitive contest in the following January and so began one of the longest and least celebrated ring careers in British boxing . |
| 28 | He tried to get it marketed or patented but he never succeeded . |
| 29 | A new member there tells me that his subscription has suddenly doubled and he now feels he joined without being told the facts . |
| 30 | Like many other RAF servicemen he found himself stationed in Lincolnshire and after five years service his Lincolnshire bonds were established and he later moved to the areas into the more peaceful activity of a fitter in the malting industry . |