Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your father 'e 'ad listened to the nurse and called for the doctor and not for the priest — puh ! ’ |
| 2 | I said , ‘ 'Course I can , ’ an' then 'e starts lookin' at these papers as though I was n't there . |
| 3 | It 's all those punches ter the 'ead 'e 's 'ad in 'is time . |
| 4 | The dogs ' descendants were still with him , though rheumatism made it difficult for him to go scrambling over the fields at night with the powerful torch to blind the rabbits . |
| 5 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 6 | Of course it must be agony for him to go shopping for me ( what does he do at the chemist 's ? ) , so I suppose he prefers to get it all over in one go . |
| 7 | The slow deliberacy with which the wife commences her reply , with not a hint of offence in her reaction but rather a hint of care in selecting the right mode of reply , emphasizes her willingness to converse on the topic : So does her subsequent appropriation of a rhetorical device , the occupatio , a statement emphasized by the speaker feigning unwillingness or lack of freedom to express it : The monk too takes a moment 's pause before replying : again seeming to digest the implications of the wife 's words , or ( and ? ) to express , silently but with an eloquent action , astonishment at the wife 's ready invitation to him to continue to converse on this topic . |
| 8 | Here it may be advisable to point out that we are not advising the rational man to be any more spontaneous than he already is , merely inviting him to continue reasoning about means , ends and principles as before , with his mind at rest about that little puzzle about passing from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ . |
| 9 | Whoever killed him got rid of his own clothes and put them on the body afterwards . ’ |
| 10 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 11 | The powerful bike between his thighs , the beautiful morning and the prospect of a full week 's work ahead , all made him want to burst with joy . |
| 12 | But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins . |
| 13 | Those who gossip about him tend to meet with nasty accidents . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ She never knew ’ , said Gran , ‘ that Jake 'd leave him to come looking for her , and ne'er see him grown . |
| 15 | In your shoes I 'd have expected him to come prepared with a big stick . ’ |
| 16 | Besides , she was thinking , what on earth had possessed him to come rushing over here just because she wanted to see him ? |
| 17 | The way she felt about him seemed to sweep round her like the clouds up above . |
| 18 | You could see him wanting to talk about the controversy over the redevelopment of Wimbledon town centre ( Greycoat versus Speyhawk , or Caring Architects versus Greedy planners ) . |
| 19 | But Murphy knows he can run a successful business — PRCS has been voted consultancy of the year by its peers — and the odds must be on him wanting to play on a bigger stage once he is free to do so . |
| 20 | It made him shudder to think of it now , hardened as he was . |
| 21 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 22 | He zipped it up again , and I imagined him going to sit on a black plastic jerry-can to drink his own tea and have a smoke . |
| 23 | And at the last him happened to come to a fair green way . |
| 24 | They pictured him lying abandoned to the grip of despair . |
| 25 | But an irritating and inopportune appearance of honour made him hesitate to benefit from her rejection by Alfred at least for tonight . |
| 26 | She saw him begin to walk towards her . |
| 27 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 28 | Notwithstanding we do not believe as we 've already said that flows of traffic justify and coming if I may er before Mr answers to give him time to think about it , to the figures from Mr . |
| 29 | Another approach which is complementary to this is to encourage the patient to examine the questions and assumptions that prevent him getting started on anything . |
| 30 | Before the American could go any farther , the bouncer had grabbed his wrist and forced him to let go of the girl . |