Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made over his share in Leopold 's estate to Nannerl in return for 1,000 gulden of ready cash , which he desperately needed . |
| 2 | He was well-aware of the sense in which he made up what happened to him , imagined his misfortune . |
| 3 | He made up his mind — and won |
| 4 | While sobbing , he made up his mind . |
| 5 | He made up his mind to tell Miss Claybury in the morning that things must change , otherwise he could no longer stay in her employ . |
| 6 | Finally he made up his mind about something : he asked Changez about Jamila and how she was . |
| 7 | He had a light lunch in a small sandwich bar off the street called Crutched Friars , where monks once hobbled with one leg bound behind them to cause pain for the greater glory of God , and he made up his mind what he would do . |
| 8 | Suddenly , he made up his mind , and threw the nervousness aside . |
| 9 | He made up his mind he 'd never make the same mistake twice . |
| 10 | Dexter did not trust Russell one millimetre , let alone an inch , and he made up his mind to tell Blanche at the earliest opportunity . |
| 11 | Of a sudden , he made up his mind . |
| 12 | He made up his mind to flee to Britain . |
| 13 | He made up his mind and poured out some more water . |
| 14 | Lastly , he made up his mind to see Charlie the Pigeon , who could tell him all the things happening in the neighbourhood , because he could fly so high + see so much . |
| 15 | And the following visit he made here he brought with him Miss Virginia she was one of the personnel at Stepney Causeway she was the Miss Virginia , the niece of the line and she came and she said that she would help in erm doing some organisation and and giving us some insight as to what we had to do , because we had never run a fete in all our lives ! |
| 16 | If the Minister attended and attempted to make the type of speech that he made here he would be laughed at . |
| 17 | Ashley says it 's hard work at the Institute , but says two of his friends he made there who were also from England encouraged him . |
| 18 | She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , he made out you were different , but you 're just the same . ’ |
| 20 | She would have said he was much attracted by the riding , yet he made out he was n't . |
| 21 | I went off him a lot when he made out he was really eager to get to Blackburn and ‘ only really wanted to play for one club ’ , but you ca n't really blame him for wanting to be filthy rich . |
| 22 | He stammered out his credentials , and produced the letter . |
| 23 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 24 | If he plays up you shout at him right . |
| 25 | He realised instantly what was happening and why . |
| 26 | For the first time ever he realised how he missed the woman when he did not see her . |
| 27 | He laid aside his paper and allowed himself to be lulled into a rhythmical vacuity by the swaying of the ambulance . |
| 28 | In Churchill 's speech in Zurich in 1946 he laid down his ideas for a ‘ kind of United States of Europe ’ : ‘ The first step in the re-creation of the European family must be a partnership between France and Germany . |
| 29 | Then he laid down his challenge : essentially , he announced , ‘ I am not a van Gogh . ’ |
| 30 | He laid down his arms , ordered his castellans to obey Eleanor 's commands and returned , like a dutiful son , to his father 's court . |