Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he has me do that and on other songs he has me play bass . |
| 2 | pulling a different way , I used to pull it with my legs he pulls it with his back . |
| 3 | In all these respects he reminds us today of Schleiermacher . |
| 4 | And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and |
| 5 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 6 | Every couple of months he takes me aside and , his breath sweet with trapped drink , asks me how I am . |
| 7 | Ask the Father which passage(s) he wants you to read in the Bible . |
| 8 | A LITTLE boy is becoming withdrawn because he has so many ear infections he finds it difficult to hear , but his life could be revolutionised by one simple operation . |
| 9 | Sarella turned in time to catch Marc 's worried glance following the reckless path of the jeep , but then he turned , and she could almost believe she 'd imagined that fleeting expression when he gave her a cynical smile and said , ‘ If it 's proverbs he wants I could have swopped him a more appropriate one . ’ |
| 10 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 11 | ‘ We must live our earthly lives in obedience to Him but also in the service of the great possibilities He gives us . |
| 12 | Last year , you know , totally rat-arsed. now , he 's putting up a list of all the poems he wants us to look at for next week . |
| 13 | The ‘ Poet ’ can not marry the ‘ Friend ’ ( to use the conventional terms for our two personae ) , does not wish to seduce him : in the first seventeen sonnets he urges him to marry , indeed , but not ( as elsewhere ) choosing the writer of the poetry , but someone else , a woman ( obviously ! ) . |
| 14 | Patrick Standun 's book ‘ Lovers ’ has on its cover a priest and a semi-naked woman in bed and it opens with a character using a sock for purposes he claims he learned from ‘ The Dark ’ . |
| 15 | About seven years he says you can expect them to start going like then , you know and I |
| 16 | In the next five years he thinks he does but does n't . |
| 17 | HE WO N'T cut the exchange rate of the over-valued pound because in his daydreams he sees it replacing the German mark as the strongest currency . |
| 18 | the things he tells her . |
| 19 | There was caviare and smoked salmon and cold chicken ( he buys them ready-cooked somewhere ) — all things he knows I like — and a dozen other things he knows I like , the cunning brute . |
| 20 | There was caviare and smoked salmon and cold chicken ( he buys them ready-cooked somewhere ) — all things he knows I like — and a dozen other things he knows I like , the cunning brute . |
| 21 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 22 | And one of the ways he does it is through the World Pooh sticks championships he devised and now holds every year . |
| 23 | Surreptitiously photographed at very close quarters he shows us moments in the sand — moments private and not so private . |
| 24 | A detective said : ‘ Some of the murders he says he committed so long ago that he has difficulty in remembering where the bodies are buried . |
| 25 | When he hangs up his gloves he says he 'll just be doing alot more gardening instead . |
| 26 | For Corporal Gary Elmer , whose day job is as a builder , this is a big change : during the week he puts them up , and at weekends he knocks them down ! |
| 27 | Jesus , shortly before he left his disciples he tells them , it 's in Mark chapter sixteen , er yes , Mark chapter sixteen , in verse seventeen , it says , these signs will accompany those who have believed in my name . |
| 28 | Yeah well he only used to make miniatures he makes them . |
| 29 | There 's clearly a problem , any ward councillor who brings out t that sort of thing which is non non-trivial to this council er for the reasons he has it seems to me deserves er to be supported unless there 's a very strong case against it and I do n't worth considering and that 's what I shall vote.worth co you do n't . |
| 30 | I agree with it and for the reasons he gives I would allow the appeal . |