Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's run out of plaster and he 's got an urgent call somewhere where he thinks he 'll need it . |
| 2 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 3 | And I 'd sure see you had a lovely time , ’ he went on with almost too much intensity in his voice , so that he feared he might have frightened her off . |
| 4 | The sergeant would go sniffing around so that he showed he knew what you were doing . |
| 5 | She told us just now merely that he said he had a gun but you you remember that it is a hand gun . |
| 6 | If the trouble spreads far enough and he thinks he can buy peace with a cheap loaf of bread then I should think he will . |
| 7 | At the entrance to the Press tent I asked the security man if Toby was inside and he pointed him out in the middle of the usual muddle of desks and papers , with telephones ringing and cigarette smoke drifting , and expletives exploding . |
| 8 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 9 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 10 | So if he sells he 's tertiary . |
| 11 | Well i if his mate comes in , like he 's got a good mate , so if his mate comes in he releases his mate early so if he releases him early , he could be er it takes him about thirty five to forty minutes . |
| 12 | so er is a waste of space so and he works he works for so er that 's stuff it |
| 13 | so he said well that 's you down but he said he wanted to cut them back . |
| 14 | Mr Brownlow explained that he had run after the boy only because he saw him running away . |
| 15 | The condescension there implied that the acceptance was possible only because he knew he would win . |
| 16 | Oh yes , he does , but only because he feels he ought to . |
| 17 | But long before he reaches him he recognizes him — from the way he 's sitting , sprawled back in an armchair with his feet on a coffee-table , reading an ancient Amazing Science Fiction ; from his spectacles and rumpled hair ; from the fact that he 's taken his shoes and socks off to cool his feet , and tossed them down on the coffee-table ; from the way he does n't look up , even as Howard comes right up to him , goggling head leading the way , unable to believe his eyes . |
| 18 | At that point the creditor could still refuse to have the man released from prison and insist of his being kept there , so long as he paid him a groat a day . |
| 19 | The homosexual male is fine — is pretty good news , in fact , on the whole — so long as he knows he 's homosexual . |
| 20 | Fernandez remembered North breaking down as he told him , sitting in a parked car one night , that Buckley was dead ; David Jacobsen , the last hostage to be released as a result of the arms transfers , recalled North in tears on the aeroplane to Germany , wishing that the other hostages had been freed with him . |
| 21 | Izzie left them deep in animated conversation — the monk laughing out loud as he realized he was being lured into an acting profession — and went inside the house to find Gabriel . |
| 22 | He was the sort of man who 'd turn up only when he said he would n't . |
| 23 | Especially when he knew he could push aside her doubts by making love to her . |
| 24 | Charles found it a strain and was relieved when the meal was over and he felt he could decently leave . |
| 25 | Same all through but he wants he wants , he wants carpet down . |
| 26 | ‘ He says he ca n't remember exactly but he thinks he may have tried to pull out the knife . |
| 27 | Shiva smiled sadly and asked why not but he knew he was being unfair to Adam as well as to himself . |
| 28 | But what I mean is , he did n't have that high an opinion of himself , just because he knew he could have any one of us for the asking . |
| 29 | He noticed Schellenberg the moment he entered , not because he recognized him , only the kind of man he was . |
| 30 | Just before he left he opened the door to look at Busacher . |