Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb infin] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 2 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 3 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 4 | Mr Major wo n't hear of re-regulation ( in the form of credit controls , say ) but he does think it a pity that lenders behave so ‘ irresponsibly ’ . |
| 5 | Erm no , he does help me a few things but I do all the digging for him because he ca n't bend down too much . |
| 6 | The egoist might concede that , since in choosing means to his own ends he has to try to predict others ' behaviour , he does find it a practical necessity at times to imagine from their viewpoints at the cost of transiently feeling himself moved in altruistic directions . |