Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not just now , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ 'e 'appens to 'ave just gone out . ’ |
| 2 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 3 | When I said why did n't 'e go an' get it back 'isself , 'e said do n't ask questions . |
| 4 | Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk . |
| 5 | But once 'e 's come round we talk about the good old days , an' how they 're a complete blank . |
| 6 | ‘ She knows we 're anxious to see him , and does n't expect him to go rushing off to see her the minute he arrives . ’ |
| 7 | Told him to go to grey though , cos grey wo n't date , green will . |
| 8 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
| 9 | Even thinking about their blotched yellow and black skins and their squidgy , floury middles made him want to throw up . |
| 10 | He felt inspected , plumbed , and like a moth in front of some anti-lighthouse , casting a shadow-beam , making him want to pull back , fly away from the intensity of those black , searching eyes . |
| 11 | A terrible , furious , impotent anger filled him , making him want to strike out , to shout and scream . |
| 12 | What he saw there , lying on top of them , made him want to cry out . |
| 13 | John got him to sit facing backward in the saddle , resting the foot on the horse 's rump . |
| 14 | The impact as well as the shock of the bullet wound knocked him crashing face down to the ground , his legs all mixed up with the trolley 's wheels . |
| 15 | He was a keeper and dealer in secrets ; it 's not surprising the truth about him has emerged only slowly . |
| 16 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
| 17 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 18 | Yes , I do nag him to try to achieve more . ’ |
| 19 | He had brought his tracksuit and trainers with him to try to keep up his jogging . |
| 20 | Dyson half expected him to come jerking back for a reprise of the First Collect . |
| 21 | I waited all evening for the shout of anger , for him to come bursting in and beat the evil out of the liar . |
| 22 | All animosity towards her husband dissolved and a spark of affection for him seemed to light up inside her , as it had in the old days . |
| 23 | Part of him yearned to start again . |
| 24 | The main objective , if they could not in fact capture Balliol , was to frighten him , give him warning to keep away from Scotland in future , and show Dacre and the North of England generally that if they aided Edward Plantagenet , they were vulnerable to dire reprisals . |
| 25 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 26 | A little boy wearing a balaclava cap too large for him came trotting out of the house . |
| 27 | Several times I saw him look to see how many pages more he had to read . |
| 28 | The tension was eased and they both laughed because they knew it was impossible , her getting tipsy and aggressive and him getting turned on by it . |
| 29 | It was at about this time that Charles acquired a tutor and through him began to look out on the world through a learned man 's eyes . |
| 30 | Before it came shoulder-high , Thorfinn killed him and saw him drop bleeding over his friend . |