Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he plays quite a bit of guitar . |
| 2 | He goes there a lot . |
| 3 | Huh , he 's a good , good lad , but he 's er he drinks rather a lot and suffers quite a lot from hangovers , he comes in dries up and goes |
| 4 | Now , 18 days after the attacker was put behind bars , he 's been allowed to return home for a visit and he lives just a few doors away from the Strongs . |
| 5 | Cos he lives about a quarter of a mile away from the school . |
| 6 | He has neither a running mate nor a campaign headquarters , but when he announced his bid he shot to the top of the polls . |
| 7 | In Leetham ( Henry ) & Sons Ltd v Johnstone-White [ 1907 ] 1 Ch 322 Farwell LJ commented : … a man whose business is a corn miller 's business , and who requires to protect that , can not , if he has also a furniture business , require the covenantee who enter into his service as an employee in the corn business to enter into covenants restricting him from entering into competition with him in the furniture business also , because it is not required for the protection of the corn business in which the man is employed , however much it may be beneficial to the individual person , the owner both of the corn business and of the furniture business . |
| 8 | The Americans are world champions and half a second faster than the British best — but I can redress that balance just by telling Christie he has only a dog 's chance . |
| 9 | Any honest assessment of his chances of pulling this off should start from the realisation that he has only a few rusty tools at his disposal . |
| 10 | He has only a one-year contract and there have been differences with chairman Bob Murray , including the failure to sign Everton 's Ray Atteveld , the loss of Paul Bracewell after a contract dispute and a boardroom veto on selling £750,000 Gordon Armstrong to Southampton . |
| 11 | He has only a one-year contract and there have been differences with chairman Bob Murray , including the failure to sign Everton 's Ray Atteveld , the loss of Paul Bracewell after a contract dispute and a boardroom veto on selling £750,000 Gordon Armstrong to Southampton . |
| 12 | A finder who sells goods without first disclosing that he has only a finder 's title is in breach of the condition in section 12 . |
| 13 | Since he has only an option and does not legally commit himself to buy the goods , the contract is not one of sale , Helby v. Matthews ( 1895 H.L. ) . |
| 14 | He knows , though , that he has still a lot to learn , particularly about the unglamorous side of things . |
| 15 | He has quite a lot of nasal resonance . |
| 16 | Erm number one strength Alan erm although he does n't see to eye T eye eye to eye with er a lot of the city institutions and a lot of the shareholders erm he he does know his business erm and he has quite a strong character , very forceful and . |
| 17 | ’ I think he has quite a genuine scientific interest in how promotions may be engineered . |
| 18 | And it was very very interesting , he has quite an assortment of them , but he has n't , |
| 19 | If this is indeed the case , he has obviously a very wide range of choices available to him . |
| 20 | Works by Hogarth hung in the gallery at Slains : the library contained ‘ a valuable numerous collection ’ , and Boswell renders one of his usual excellent off-the-cuff services to our understanding of eighteenth-century domestic arrangements : ‘ The noble owner has built of brick , along the square on the inside , a gallery , both on the first and second story , the house being no higher ; so that he has always a dry walk , and the rooms , to which formerly there was no approach but through each other , have now all separate entries from the gallery . ’ |
| 21 | An extreme form of the first is the fur trapper in the Russian and Canadian Arctic who lays a line of traps across country which he visits once a fortnight collecting the victims who have died a slow and agonising death with one or two legs caught in a gin trap . |
| 22 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |
| 23 | Yeah , and also he lives so far out and he was saying you know , Julie 's up in er in Birmingham , Andy 's up in Birmingham , he 's had no one to see , Eileen 's come back up to Birmingham he sees quite a lot of and er I think he 's just a bit lonely . |
| 24 | So we get him back and he gets maybe an extra six months for going over the wall . |
| 25 | The interpreter operates at high speed : in simultaneous translation ( strictly speaking , simultaneous interpreting ) , he keeps roughly a sentence behind the speaker ; in consecutive translation ( interpreting ) the speaker waits for the interpreter to translate anything from a morpheme to a whole paragraph at a time . |
| 26 | Surrounded by tropical tanks in the office , he keeps only an eccentric mix of ‘ temperate fish in a tank at home , and many of the ideas from that tank are adapted for this article . |
| 27 | Now he takes only a ‘ blast ’ of pills monthly . |
| 28 | He pulls open a door . |
| 29 | ‘ None so far ; in fact he seems quite a lot brighter this morning . ’ |
| 30 | She explodes in a verbal attack on Trevor which momentarily he finds quite a relief . |