Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [conj] he be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The fight did not take place , Surrey claiming that he was too lowly born to fight with a king ; and the fish garth remained .
2 And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see .
3 He was left out while the first team travelled to Blackburn with speculation mounting that he was as much as 6lb too heavy .
4 You said last week at the staff meeting that he was n't .
5 ‘ Immediately after the crash I could n't feel the baby moving and he was normally a quite active baby , ’ she said .
6 ‘ Immediately after the crash I could n't feel the baby moving and he was normally a quite active baby . ’
7 She listened to his calm voice explaining that he was not available and if she would like to leave a message … but the message she would like to have left was far too complicated , so she rang off without saying anything .
8 His head started to swim ; he heard a voice enquiring whether he was all right , and blacked out .
9 Then out of the blue he got a phone call asking if he was still interested in the car as it had to be sold to make space for the family .
10 ‘ Smile , ’ he said , his voice indicating that he was certainly grinning like a Cheshire cat .
11 She says one boy has gone back to bed wetting because he 's so worried .
12 John Masefield began his collected poems with a consecration declaring that he was not concerned with the princes and prelates , the bemedalled commander , the ‘ potentates goodly in girth ’ , but rather with the humble and unknown folk , the losers and rejected , the common sailor and soldier , the servant rather than the master .
13 But I do remember Sterland giving an interview before the final saying that he was basically taken to the cleaners by the boy .
14 John Kirwan has also changed his mind after he was heard on TVNZ after the World Cup saying that he was not prepared to play for New Zealand unless John Hart was nominated as coach .
15 Jack 's hobby was model making and he was currently engaged in a vast and ambitious project .
16 The great virtue of Cagney to the Hollywood set-up was that he could realistically depict anger , violence , and meanness without in any way suggesting that he was personally a worthless villain or that the film in which he was appearing was deliberately condoning these unpleasant qualities .
17 He spoke in Italian , but his words were interspersed with English too , and Meredith sensed the excitement in him , her muddled brain recognising that he was about to announce something important .
18 If regression can find the reason for the initial onset of the phobia — that first , frightening occasion — it may not be sufficient to put an end to it but it certainly stops the sufferer feeling that he is simply being ‘ weak ’ and ‘ foolish ’ or ( as one of my patients put it ) that he is ‘ going out of his mind ’ .
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