Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He breathes good country air and must have t'best of everything , but 'e only looks frail . ’ |
| 2 | I fink 'e still misses those 'orses . ’ |
| 3 | 'E really loved those 'orses . |
| 4 | Running behind him just seemed effortless and when I kicked he did n't go with me and he gradually dropped back as I kept the pace up . ’ |
| 5 | In winter when she entertained she would send him outside to chop more wood for their open fire . |
| 6 | Early water-colours show him already using some of the techniques of miniature painting , and the scale and meticulous detail of all his work suggest that he was truly a miniaturist at heart . |
| 7 | Leila did n't have the heart to tell him she doubted whether there 'd be much opportunity for him ever to do that , at least while he was helping her with Ari . |
| 8 | It would of course be completely outside the spirit of our style of proof system for him ever to do this . ) |
| 9 | I said to him yesterday wash all your important little places and I 'll do the rest , you know . |
| 10 | They had sent him home to do two years in a military prison and his dark oily skin had suffered while inside . |
| 11 | This afforded the opportunity for him both to become familiar with other music , and to come to grips with concerto movement forms unhampered by the need to create the thematic and harmonic material as well . |
| 12 | How it must sicken him now to see Pádraic Flynn leaping aboard the Reynolds bandwagon , ballot box in one hand , scapular in the other . |
| 13 | Her love for him now seemed shameful and foolish ; she imagined Marjorie saying to him , ‘ That silly kid 's crazy about you ’ and could almost hear his laughter in her ears . |
| 14 | Philip is ironic also about his tendency to think in terms of ‘ higher ’ literature , and he discredits the validity of a quotation from Eliot , when it comes into his mind , simply on the grounds that he has been too corrupted by contemporary culture for anything that occurs to him spontaneously to have lasting value : |
| 15 | Masochism is the other side of the coin , the victim 's pleasure in the pain and humiliation heaped upon him often remaining unconscious . |
| 16 | I could n't understand him really saying that . |
| 17 | Him immediately established complete domination over all his companions . |
| 18 | So it was , the prophecy was written then by Daniel for our , for our time and it just happened in our , because you know er , when he was er , when he finished the book write written and he said I have seen the , the , the erm visions and I 've heard the voice , but I , and I 've written down what I was told to do , but I do not understand and then the voice said to him well close that down , that book is not for you to understand , the generations that it 's written for , it 's written for the end of the times , they will come to understand it , and you see we actually witnessing what 's happening |
| 19 | Those of us who knew him well see this as the beginning of his caring career which was evident in all that he did . |
| 20 | My response to him simply proved that . ’ |
| 21 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |
| 22 | The Prince had loved children , had been very kind to them , and Sally-Anne had been delighted to see him gravely encourage two four-year-old boys , the twin sons of an old friend , to race pieces of bread , butter and jam up and down his expensively trousered leg . |
| 23 | But the main line of attack was that Heseltine should ‘ either put up or shut up ’ — with the apparent intention of forcing him either to keep silent or to declare himself before he was ready . |
| 24 | ‘ Furthermore , I told him either to provide substantive proof of his allegations or be prepared to be sued for defamation of character . ’ |
| 25 | You 'd sent him upstairs to make some sort of excuse to Nicky Kai ? |
| 26 | I would n't mind betting that Bill 's lists that you gave him actually contained all these things and only then can we actually put them down in order . |
| 27 | He rather distrusted Gallic logic . |
| 28 | Yeah David said he 's not too bothered , would he rather take some beans and the toaster ? |
| 29 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 30 | Would n't he rather wait twenty-four hours ? ’ |