Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E went out at four o'clock an' 'e was all nervy . |
| 2 | 'E knows more about that place than the guv'nor 'imself , ’ he asserted . |
| 3 | ‘ What I 'd like would be for him to go back to that first wife of his . ’ |
| 4 | Mrs Preston added : ‘ In my opinion he looked too upset to work in an operating theatre so I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds . ’ |
| 5 | Sampson II was apprenticed in 1717 to Thomas Sharp at a brass-wire firm in Bristol , but ill health led him to go home in 1720 . |
| 6 | It made him think again about contemporary language . |
| 7 | The necessity to provide enough material to fill 20 or so pages of Tinsley 's Magazine each month exerted its own pressure , forcing him to fall back on recent autobiographical and architectural experiences , but appropriately when the novel appeared in book-form in May 1873 to favourable reviews it was the first to bear his name on the title-page . |
| 8 | She watched him gazing amorously at those twin orbs , as white as marble , and as plump as pigeons . |
| 9 | ‘ See him glance round like that ? |
| 10 | It may require him to publish a warning in the newspaper or it could , for example , require him to write individually to all purchasers of that model . |
| 11 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 12 | In Russia , whatever big Boris Yeltsin may be — and you only have to look at him to know more about that than you want to — he is no Gorbachev . |
| 13 | Er , asking if there 's anything we co , look at him walking about with that |
| 14 | What pressures his wife brought to bear on him to come around to this decision I am not sure . |
| 15 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |
| 17 | If s if he does n't why not and would , would you please tell us what possessed him to come out with such a , a remarkable statement and I think this goes to the what we 're talking about this morning . |
| 18 | Thereafter financial stress obliged him to concentrate increasingly on short pieces . |
| 19 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 20 | Trevor has often wondered whether this made him grow up with silly fussy habits which irritated the girls with whom he would like to have been involved . |
| 21 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 22 | Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter . |
| 23 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 24 | You should expect him to listen carefully to those problems and take notes and measurements , paying specific attention to narrow doorways , lifts , steps , working obstructions and restrictions , route conditions and floor or ground surfaces . |
| 25 | Oh , please do n't let him be a thief , she prayed ; please do n't let him run off with all the woman 's stock . |
| 26 | Yes — sad , was n't it , him going off like that . |
| 27 | Instead , he was glowing with hope of a future which , until recently , had seemed to him to consist solely of repeating Grade 12 over and over again in a remorseless , inescapable cycle of misery . |
| 28 | Hitch was a couple of years younger than his boss but his long blond hair and perpetual sun tan ( the product of a solarium ) made him look closer to thirty than thirty-six . |
| 29 | Someone was singularly careless to allow him to walk out of that hospital in Holland . ’ |
| 30 | It is a nuisance and an invitation for him to look again at other forms of travel . |