Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays mostly keyboards these days , so maybe one day . |
| 2 | He laid out lines of the drug in a bedroom for Suzanne , her 19-year-old boyfriend Neil Young and friends Steve Richmond and Graham Longstaff . |
| 3 | However , he ruled out attempts to formulate foreign policy by majority voting which , as he pointed out , would have been disastrous in the Gulf and which were reinforced by the failed attempts to mediate in Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | Samuel 's argument uses the example of ‘ nation ’ , which he points out historians of the left have shied away from either as a subject of study or as a symbolic category . |
| 5 | If the facilitator is successful , it is because he acts as a traffic cop ; he rephrases the conversation whenever it is necessary ; he clarifies issues ; he points out messages that may be upsetting others , and so on . |
| 6 | Hastily he whipped off shoes and socks and prepared to paddle . |
| 7 | While he laughs off comparisons to Lawrence of Arabia , he admits that ‘ to spend 10 years getting the film made must mean it corresponds to something deep inside ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He asked why MPs wanted to leave the Standard in foreign hands . |
| 10 | He choked back tears as he told how he waved her off from Heathrow , where he works . |
| 11 | He got up petitions and raised money when you were arrested . |
| 12 | But he admitted inevitably employers would try to translate the grades and probably pick applicants with higher marks . |
| 13 | He sought out members of his old winning team for the purpose . |
| 14 | If the protests that have been made about cuts in training places on Merseyside are simply synthetic protestations , as the Minister said earlier , can he explain why projects such as the Hexagon project on Merseyside face closure ? |
| 15 | They went for long rambles around the hills which overlook Balmoral and as they lay in the heather he read out passages from books by the Swiss psychiatrist , Carl Jung , or Laurens van der Post . |
| 16 | At the end of the alley he looks both ways and signals me out . |
| 17 | After leaving Eton , he built up interests in food , clothing , pharmaceuticals , shops , mining and forestry . |
| 18 | On these points we are left in no doubt : he found mainly ruins , and what was not ruined , was in his eyes so corrupt that it needed a completely new start . |
| 19 | He ranted and raved because he found out years afterwards what it was the other swine had taken . |
| 20 | So he headed off demands for a capital levy , knowing it to be unacceptable to his party , but Britain nevertheless paid for a higher proportion of the costs of the war from taxation than the other combatants ; he was also able to launch the Victory Loan of 1917 at an interest rate of only 5 per cent , having a surer sense of the patriotism of potential subscribers than did the Treasury . |
| 21 | He lives only yards from the store and fears there may be more . |
| 22 | He jerked out drawers and scattered their contents on the floor , dragged all her clothes from the wardrobe , threw out her shoes , then pulled Ruth herself from the bed and ripped off the sheets . |
| 23 | The turning-point in what became a distinguished career came on 22 February 1897 , when he started work in the drawing office of the Metropolitan Railway Company at Neasden works , where he pursued both mechanics and architecture , being ultimately appointed as assistant to the chief surveyor and architect . |
| 24 | In 1628 , now established as chief minister , he drew up proposals for the systematic preservation of official papers of all kinds , including those relating to foreign affairs ; but nothing came of this . |
| 25 | As well as his authorship of many books he drew up plans for the House of Correction at Maidstone , was elected to the Rochester Bridge Corporation , a deputy Alienations officer , deputy Keeper of the Rolls , President of Cobham College and , a few months before his death , Keeper of the records in the Tower of London . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | He has been told he has only months to live , but the case could take two years before the Court of Session in Edinburgh . |
| 30 | 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 . |