Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals have different needs , and these will differ according to their situation and time of life : a young graduate may have a strong need to sense that she or he fits into an organisation , while a middle-aged employee facing redundancy may have future security as a main priority . |
| 2 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 3 | Or he stepped on a landmine of some sort . ’ |
| 4 | Satan lies to his followers and has convinced us too of his mighty strength and even starts to believe in his own lies when he claims he was ‘ self-begot ’ , caused by Fate , or he sprang from the ground or willed himself into existence , an absurd contradiction in terms . |
| 5 | I 'm suggesting we send that man a voucher for fifty pound that his company or he puts towards the next time they buy a full fare or an Apex and then we actually get fifty quid or a hundred and fifty quid . |
| 6 | The cameraman then came on board and we left the quay ; we returned and he transferred to a motor boat to film us leaving the quay . |
| 7 | He has vilified Simon Bates with a campaign that amounts to persecution and he flies into a howling rage every time he hears Sing Something Simple ( R2 ) . |
| 8 | She dropped the camera from her face as the lens filled with his anger , and he receded to a safe distance from her ; but he was still bearing down , yelling , ‘ What the fuck is going on ? |
| 9 | Calcavecchia , who defends the Open Championship here next summer , had never seen St Andrews before and he improved with every round . |
| 10 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 11 | Then she felt the coverlet being pulled off the bed and João was on top of her and his sweet breath was in her face and his mouth over her mouth ; he was forcing her legs apart until she thought she would split ; he was trying to lift them right up over his shoulders , and at the same time trying to enter where she was impossibly small , cursing at his lack of success and finally grunting and gasping , until she felt a little damp fountain on her belly and he rolled off the bed and pattered quickly from the room . |
| 12 | His ‘ conversion ’ came early in life and he taught in the Sunday School of a local chapel . |
| 13 | His eyes were wild , and he blew on a hunting horn . |
| 14 | His eyes opened in alarm , but before he could say anything his concentration lapsed and he dropped like a stone , vanishing behind the far end of the table . |
| 15 | And he dropped in a twenty seven inch Sony this morning . |
| 16 | ‘ How many more of you are- ’ he broke off with a stifled gasp as a hand clutched the skin exposed at the side of his neck by his wide and unbuttoned collar , and he folded to the ground . |
| 17 | Endill was still recovering from his journey in the basket lift and he followed behind the Headmaster without a word . |
| 18 | Ken Wolstenholme was never really lost to football after he left the Beeb and he commentated for a time on ITV 's Tyne Tees station and recently worked for Tottenham 's Clubcall line . |
| 19 | ‘ Two months , ’ commented Tom absently , and he gazed down the road remembering how he watched Willie 's thin little hunched body stumbling after Sammy on that first day . |
| 20 | These subtleties , however , were lost on Joseph because the dryness of the speech had caused his attention to wander and he gazed round the richly furnished audience chamber with awestruck eyes . |
| 21 | It took Prescott a good ten minutes to describe the full pointlessness of his life as a stockbroker and man-about-town before the combined effects of drink and sustaining a conversation took their toll and he declined into a glazed , sullen silence . |
| 22 | His two front teeth shattered , and he choked on a sudden spurt of blood . |
| 23 | In the semiological phase his work is inspired by the success of structural linguistics and he seizes upon the possibility of being able to offer an ordered analysis of meaning . |
| 24 | ‘ He is thinner than Hess , he is stupider than Hess , and he thinks like a peasant . |
| 25 | That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool . |
| 26 | Lambert watched it as long as he could , but his own plane was losing height , and he limped over the British lines at fifty feet . |
| 27 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 28 | The author of The Jovial Cutlers , Joseph Mather , was himself a working cutler and he wrote for an audience of his fellows . |
| 29 | and he wrote on the label for a pill |
| 30 | Well , Edgar Wallace ( a writer not to be despised , as he sometimes is ) once said that vanity is at the back of most murders , and he had as a reporter covered many a murder trail . |