Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think you should know he wanted me to go out with him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We must assume he took her completely by surprise . ’ |
| 3 | I must say he made you sound very interesting . ’ |
| 4 | He hated himself for these demeaning fantasies , and was reasonably afraid that she might suspect he nourished them . |
| 5 | I 'll believe he loved me just a little at least , thought Fenella , sitting quite still on her horse and looking about her . |
| 6 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 7 | well mind you , the only thing is he said did she get a phone call yesterday and she never so he might have he expected her to have had one . |
| 8 | I 'll admit he gave me a start , because it was dim in the office and I did n't expect to see anybody . |
| 9 | I think you 'll find he wants him to be the best player in Scotland and NOT England |
| 10 | They do it for to keep him going and then they 'll say he says you know I 'm used to getting up at half four and going so many miles every morning for a big jog . |
| 11 | He does n't know who you are but he 'll say he knows you . |
| 12 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |
| 13 | Before she could answer he grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her against him , his fingers biting cruelly into her skin . |
| 14 | Before she could answer he pulled her close again and any thoughts of answering fled as she gave herself up to the excitement . |
| 15 | The guy we now know is called Casey stomps out of the phonebox and glares up the road in our direction so hard you could swear he sees us . |
| 16 | ‘ She was dead to me , ’ he had said and she could see he meant it . |
| 17 | Carolyn agreed because she could see he meant it , although she did n't understand why . |
| 18 | I could see he thought it was serious , that she did have a case . |
| 19 | Moving back towards her , slowly , and his physical strength being the greater , he easily prised her fingers loose , and before she could recover he pushed her off balance and into a pile of hay . |
| 20 | I could tell he meant it . |
| 21 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 22 | So you could say he recommended you to us ? |
| 23 | Let's hope he keeps it up , and makes himself a permanent fixture in the side . |
| 24 | Let's hope he provides them with the money to do so . |
| 25 | The late Denis Brain used to say he did it by ‘ playing one note , humming another , and thinking another ’ . |
| 26 | I would prefer he saw me naked . |
| 27 | Many would claim he does them rather well , by riding his motor bike with the style of a bronco rider all in the pursuit of the ‘ Scottish Trial Championship ’ . |
| 28 | The non-standard dialect is not a haphazard variant , since no speakers of non-standard dialects would say He done it , done he ? |
| 29 | What did he mean when he said half of England will think he got it wrong ? |
| 30 | I love the passage ( Numbers 14:15-17 ) where Moses craftily dissuades God from killing his own people by suggesting other people will think he did it to cover up his inability to get them to the promised land . |