Example sentences of "he [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had frightened him properly this time . |
| 2 | Before they parted it seemed to Sophia that he was trying to draw Ianthe aside , as if to make an assignation with her , but she gave him so little encouragement , indeed seemed almost to avoid him , that he had to be content with looking forward to the doubtful pleasure of meeting the whole party the next evening after dinner at the Trevi fountain . |
| 3 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
| 4 | Of course Rufus 's ready compliance with Anselm 's wishes , for which Anselm gave him so much credit , can now be seen to have been wholly political . |
| 5 | It is a moving end to a moving story for the son of a Tyneside lorry driver who first began wearing his mother 's clothes at the age of eight and soon after began the inner turmoil which has caused him so much anguish . |
| 6 | The answer is probably to run him on a left hand track where such antics would not cost him so much ground . |
| 7 | In an address to the Chapter of Wells the new Bishop made the vow which was to cause him so much trouble later : ‘ In all solemnity to teach and inculcate allegiance' to the new King ‘ both in our discourse and in our example to all your subjects under our care ’ . |
| 8 | He opened the box then , and inside she saw — oh , but he could not have brought with him so much jewellery . |
| 9 | June now rang him only all day Tuesday |
| 10 | He suggested that North Korea should surrender to him personally any time it was ready . |
| 11 | The town and port would offer him much more scope , its preparation for defence , the training of its citizenry for siege conditions , its provisioning and the control of its shipping . |
| 12 | Since returning from the weekend meeting in Palm Springs , California , to which President Bush summoned him early this month , Mr Kaifu has seized the high ground at home in Japan 's efforts to avert a trade war with the United States . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's hard , ’ Mark told a doctor conducting a broadcast interview with him early this month , ‘ but that heart bumps right along ’ |
| 14 | Aston Moore of Birchfield , yet another 9-year-old traveller from the West Indies ( from Jamaica in 1968 ) reflected on his parents ' giving him hardly any encouragement at all : ‘ I got the odd comment now and again — ‘ how are you doing ? ’ or whatever … . |
| 15 | The Spanish dance in The Nutcracker and the Yodelling Song in Ashton 's Façade gave him slightly more chance to make an individual impression , but his only leading part was in Fokine 's Carnaval , where he played Pierrot , not very memorably , sharing the role with Poole , whose interpretation was universally admired . |
| 16 | Oh that copper , he said he , he said the thing is he said what you 've got ta do is give him as much shit and aggravation as you can possibly give him , keep him hot and keep him roasted up he said because what happens is he 's getting along , long and he 's thinking oh I can do this and I can do that and I can do the other , he said but if you can get your solicitor to keep him on his toes he ai n't got time to think about nothing , he said and if he has done that job himself , he 's laughing at the moment , I said well he must have done it |
| 17 | The great enemy is depression — this must be overcome by giving him as much help and support as possible . |
| 18 | Also Parker confesses that he has never been to one of Elvis ' recording sessions : ‘ That 's his job — mine 's getting him as much money as I can . ’ |
| 19 | Nobody believes that is going to happen , least of all Jack Charlton , who says taking the Irish to the finals will give him as much satisfaction as he drew from winning the competition with England in 1966 . |
| 20 | Sentenced to be hung by the peer 's privilege of a silken rope , for his transportation to Tyburn he dressed in his wedding suit , on the grounds that his marriage was the only occasion in his life to have caused him as much distress as his execution . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , a tiny smile did play round his features when he introduced bras and kets and one had the feeling that this little joke had given him as much pleasure as anything . |
| 22 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |
| 23 | I mean , we 've had him here all week , training up in the St Edwards School with Barry and erm we 've put him through his paces , he 's incredibly strong . |
| 24 | ‘ I had a meeting with him here this morning . |
| 25 | Manchester United had offered him increased terms to stay on the club 's playing staff ; several years later Chelsea offered him even more money to leave Swindon and he became the elite London club 's assistant-manager , but on both occasions Macari put the unspectacular west country side first . |
| 26 | It gave him even more pleasure in their latter years to see his parents ' joy at their children 's happiness , Peter 's included . |
| 27 | While Dreadlocks held him hard another man — gold incisors glinting — stepped in and pulled open Estabrook 's coat , then reached in to empty his pockets with the speed of an illusionist . |
| 28 | It occurred to him then that Dolly might be under greater threat than he was because she could describe Blackbeard more accurately . |
| 29 | He 'd been so angry ; she had never seen him quite that way before . |
| 30 | She did n't really expect to see him again that night . |