Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | And no one else I 've met has them as he has . |
| 2 | If Graeme Souness is going a bit thin on top , it is probably the result of watching Rosenthal on one of those days and he certainly has them when he seems incapable of getting anything right . |
| 3 | He wants me , she thought with panic , and then hot on the heels of that thought came another ; he wants me because he 's spent the afternoon and evening with the woman he loves but ca n't have , and so he wants to release some of that frustration on me . |
| 4 | Structure plans have to be approved by the Secretary of State and except for small amendments , he generally accepts them after he has received a report by a panel who hold ‘ an Examination in Public ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated , has not the art of getting drunk . ’ |
| 6 | Oliver Baxter says that 's what Stocks Town Club in London 's King 's Road owes him after he organised a big party there last year . |
| 7 | Certainly , while he is alive , Shaposhnikov the cappy man refuses to be parted from his headgear ; he grabs it when he determines to leave , and he drops it when he is persuaded to stay . |
| 8 | I wish he had n't of got it cos Sue wants it when he 's finished with it . |
| 9 | He needs it because he really makes life difficult for himself . |
| 10 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 11 | His approach can be compared to that of a saint who risks everything when he bares his breast to the unknown . |
| 12 | The servant warns him if he is going to step into a hole , and reminds him to reply if someone speaks to him . |
| 13 | He uses it when he is angry or sarcastic , otherwise it is ‘ babe ’ . |
| 14 | Jesus uses it when he confronts the disciples after his resurrection : ‘ Why are you so perturbed ? ’ he asks . |
| 15 | The Minister of Culture uses it when he 's in a conversational hole . |
| 16 | Pip first uses it when he confesses to Biddy that he wants to be a gentleman for Estella 's sake . |
| 17 | and see if it eats it when he 's not starving . |
| 18 | Certainly , while he is alive , Shaposhnikov the cappy man refuses to be parted from his headgear ; he grabs it when he determines to leave , and he drops it when he is persuaded to stay . |
| 19 | It 's got a bad reputation , we associate it with old age , the truth is , man loses his hair because he 's got too much male testosterone and he loses it because he 's got a sex drive like a rampant rhino . |
| 20 | There are small twigs digging into her back , she is angry , pushes against him , but he pays no attention , carries on , his hands exploring , he is smiling down at her and when he lowers his head the water from his hair seeps into her mouth so that she tastes the lake , the fish smell of deep water , sees the sun brilliant through the branches behind his head , blinding her eyes , sun specks floating , she closes them as he moves against her . |
| 21 | You put a a plate on his chest with raddle on so he marks them as he comes round . |
| 22 | The boys from the village kiss their girls when I am there because they do not care , but he only kisses them when he is being watched . |
| 23 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 24 | checks him when he gets in the door |
| 25 | But sophisticated Sal ( Dylan McDemott ) is n't as convinced about Toby who pursues him until he has to give in to her — er — charms . |
| 26 | A townscape of nightmare yellows : sky , buildings , furniture , wallpaper , faces — the colour of age , heat , pestilence , bile and jaundice , bruisings and stainings , with a stronger connotation of dirt in Russian than in English ; the colour of the tickets of identification which prostitutes were required to carry ; the colour of Raskolnikov 's ‘ cubbyhole ’ of a room ; and the colour which greets him when he comes to after fainting at the police station and sees a man ‘ holding a yellow glass filled with yellow water ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ We wo n't know until the doctor sees him if he will be fit to travel to Spain with England , ’ said manager George Graham . |
| 28 | Accordingly , his introduction takes the form of a long conversation between himself and an old man , a Beggar , who approaches him while he is walking in the fields after a sleepless night at Chester 's Inn , where the clerks lived . |
| 29 | A citizen is hardly encouraged to do his civic duty as he sees it if he is guilty of committing an offence should events backfire on him . |
| 30 | Laura reckons , ’ she continued , a salacious gleam in her toffee-brown eyes , ‘ old Po-face-that 's what they all calls him cos he never smiles-had been having it off with that secretary for weeks . |