Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays mostly keyboards these days , so maybe one day . |
| 2 | The expert will want to make sure he understands both points of view , and in doing so , he may decide that he should try to persuade one or both of the parties about the other 's position . |
| 3 | At the end of the alley he looks both ways and signals me out . |
| 4 | He lives only yards from the store and fears there may be more . |
| 5 | Although he is appointed by the council who pay his salary , he has nevertheless duties to the public to see that their rights are protected . |
| 6 | He is always talking about style : he has yet words of the absurdest that occur in every page , bland , delicate , dainty ; one blushes to read them . ’ |
| 7 | Easy enough , but how does Rainey prevent the slide translating into a crash when he has only milliseconds to react to the signals of impending doom ? |
| 8 | He has been told he has only months to live , but the case could take two years before the Court of Session in Edinburgh . |
| 9 | The former telecommunications installation worker is giving evidence in advance of a full court hearing up to two years away because he has only weeks to live . |
| 10 | He needs both antennae to do this . |
| 11 | He says nowadays shopkeepers are really asking please city government can you get our street or our part of the city centre car-free because it creates … such a better way of doing shops and walking and you can really enjoy the city centre much more . |
| 12 | Freddie is spot-on when he says only lawyers get rich from couples who bicker over who gets what from the divorce . |
| 13 | He upturns the conventional view of law as a constraint on the people and argues that its proper purpose is to liberate the common people by confining ‘ the mighty ’ , among whom he includes both kings and parliaments . |
| 14 | From the list given in the book , he chooses only herbs which grow in wet places that the fish would naturally have access to . |
| 15 | A seller will be unwilling to part with the transfer and share certificate until the buyer has paid the price but an off-market buyer will be unwilling to pay until he gets both documents . |
| 16 | He heeds neither motors nor tramways — the young man takes the notebook in his hands , opens its blue covers — the loose leaves fall on the warm pavement . |
| 17 | His waist is very thick ; I 'd guess he weighs about 265lbs . |
| 18 | These two limbs are essential to a candidate 's training and he ought not to become a corporate member until he satisfies both requirements . ’ |
| 19 | He smooths away difficulties . |
| 20 | He treats both subjects with a wit which is lucid and ambiguous at one and the same time , so that I recalled Charles Lamb 's remark about the possibility of obscurity through too much meaning . |
| 21 | From his own observations , and such scanty and often mendacious published sources as exist , he pieces together accounts of what seemed to be going on . |