Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ca n't stop himself smiling as he delivers the clich de grace : ‘ My hands are tied . ’ |
| 2 | The devil , Trent thought , and found himself smiling as he realised that continual fear had acted as a drug , lifting him free of reality in the same way that marathon runners broke through the pain barrier into an almost hallucinatory state of calm . |
| 3 | so I said what bike are you getting and he said |
| 4 | STARR PERFORMER : Crazy comic Freddie will have you roaring when he appears at Funcoast World |
| 5 | Listen , what are you watching and he goes |
| 6 | Finally he got so used to me calling that he asked me to come down and give them a hand fixing it up . |
| 7 | These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club . |
| 8 | Three gamekeepers from the next-door estate arrived , one muttering that he had had only one bite at his Marmite sandwich when the alarm came . |
| 9 | George 'll want something warming when he gets back . ’ |
| 10 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 11 | Just before we were to go upstairs to be photographed , an agitated Nigel Lawson came up to me saying that he wanted a word . |
| 12 | But strangely enough , St John Rivers found me crying as he approached the cottage . |
| 13 | For the first time she found herself wondering whether he had resented not only Hugo but all the family , and whether that subsequent betrayal could have had long roots in the soil of an old envy . |
| 14 | You will forgive him using but he had a bad fall yesterday and has damaged his ankle . |
| 15 | He got to his feet , and she could hear him coughing as he trundled out . |
| 16 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 17 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 18 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 19 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 20 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 21 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 22 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 23 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 24 | She moved her free arm to stop him inspecting but he put his head on one side . |
| 25 | It slipped down again and she could hear him swearing as he tried to haul it up . |
| 26 | It was a waste of time him going but he nagged so much that she had to let him go . |
| 27 | Persistence and the 15% personal interest time he could call upon kept him going until he found a potential end use and a person willing to put time and effort into developing the idea into a truly innovative and useful product . |
| 28 | If he was taking a man home he would keep him waiting while he did this . |
| 29 | And with him adding that he had to get rid of a notion in football that Manchester United was a drinking club . |
| 30 | Baddeley is now 28 , four years older than his rival , and Hall kept him moving until he drew the sting from his opponent 's game . |