Example sentences of "he sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , it is something unrequited in Jackie and it curiously twists his character , making him sometimes use people on his upward path . |
| 2 | To rub the message in he may add , for good measure , that it is also inconceivable and unthinkable ; and he sometimes quotes from an authority such as Richard Goldschmidt who also assures us that it is impossible and unimaginable . |
| 3 | Just as he sometimes lets me beat him at chess . |
| 4 | Despite his precautions , he sometimes loses track of her and she is left unattended . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , little is known about how Æthelred raised tributes : the charter S 943 of 1006x11 shows that he sometimes sold land for the purpose , but as the national council ( the witan ) usually participated in the decision to pay , the main burden almost certainly fell on the people . |
| 6 | He was also a vegetarian , although the story goes that Chapman persuaded him to eat steaks after hearing that he sometimes felt faint when heading a ball . |
| 7 | The Greek with the wooden leg , whose machinations , he sometimes felt , ran as a dark undercurrent below all his own devices , robbing him of his belief in his will . |
| 8 | To Wishart , Minton said that in a hangover state he sometimes felt as if his eyeballs had been pulled out , tied in a very complicated knot and pushed back with the knots intact . |
| 9 | He refused to live under a regime which sanctioned the burning of books ; nor , since many of his friends and the writers he published were Jewish — as , indeed , he sometimes felt himself to be — would he tolerate the government 's anti-Semitism . |
| 10 | It stimulated memories ; perched aloft in his iron seat with mown grass a violent cloud behind him , he sometimes felt almost as though he was riding round Liverpool again . |
| 11 | He sometimes felt that if the last bomb fell , blowing to pieces all the anxious and tentative opinions and reflections of mankind , there would still be , booming on among the wreckage , his father-in-law 's assured and confident voice . |
| 12 | Untaught , he did what he could ; and it seemed to many of his colleagues , professionals or not , that he sometimes played at it , doing the things he thought secret agents did , even when they were unnecessary . |
| 13 | Prodded for details of his own guitar tunings , Cooder reveals that he mostly sticks to DGDGBD , a plain open G , or DADF&sharp ; AD , an open D , although he sometimes changes the open G to an open C , or tunes the second string up to make open D into a D6 tuning . |
| 14 | His stern upbringing may explain an insensitivity to the feelings of others less resilient than himself which he sometimes displayed on the bench , particularly in criminal appeals . |
| 15 | He was a bit long in the legs for it so he sometimes knocked his knees painfully . |
| 16 | The name is a reference to Mr Donovan 's evidence that he sometimes applied lemon juice to lighten his hair , although never bleach . |
| 17 | Arguably he was known to Londoners less for his medical expertise than for his incredible eccentricity , which was exaggerated by a long beard , a predilection for extraordinary costume and his habit of riding about in the streets and Hyde Park on a white pony , which he sometimes painted all purple or , when the mood took him , purple with black spots . |
| 18 | There was much more of this kind of thinking in Baden-Powell 's writings where he sometimes committed himself to outrageously libertarian positions on questions of education and authority , although these were perfectly in line with the emerging contours of ‘ progressive ’ educational philosophy . |
| 19 | Phillip was chosen for the honour because of the natty suits he sometimes favours . |
| 20 | To get over the problem he sometimes insisted that he was Welsh , claiming that the Welsh disliked the English as much as the Icelanders . |
| 21 | Since Scott is primarily neither a storyteller nor a director of actors — though the film was strongly cast , making the latter point less significant — he sometimes resorted to tricks to get a response . |
| 22 | His enthusiasm was shared by Seville superstar Diego Maradona , who described the irrepressible Keane , happier in midfield than the centre back role he sometimes fulfils for Forest , as an ideal team-mate . |
| 23 | While Helmholtz did not report solving problems in dreams , he did apparently rely to some extent on an autonomous process , so that once he had done the groundwork on a problem he sometimes achieved his insights apparently spontaneously , for instance when out walking . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's an old bike he sometimes uses . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ That 's his little personal seal , the one he sometimes uses to give authority to his special messengers . |
| 26 | He sometimes kicks his legs when he does n't know what I 'm doing . |
| 27 | All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant . |
| 28 | He sometimes thought about ringing her and asking her to take it off , but common sense prevailed and he did nothing . |
| 29 | Certainly , the multi-studio techniques used for the famous 1959 Decca Aida were meat and drink to Karajan ; and although he sometimes thought he knew more than he did , occasionally putting paid to expensive equipment , his mastery was of an order not previously seen in a working musician . |
| 30 | He sometimes thought how astonished , how appalled indeed , many of these women would be if they knew that these intra-uterine devices were not in fact contraceptives but abortifacients . |