Example sentences of "[verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever scrapes he 'd get you into , ’ one of them had once said , ‘ you always knew he 'd get you out . ’ |
| 2 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 3 | As he drank from the two glasses so he was able to strut wider and leap higher , until with the glasses empty he was spinning and soft-shoe shuffling , and the dancers had stopped dancing and were finger-clicking and hand-clapping and the atmosphere built like a house of cards , thin and precarious but high and beautiful . |
| 4 | He must have wished he had been there , protected by the Pinkerton security guards employed here , earlier in the week when a messenger arrived at the course to serve a paternity suit . |
| 5 | He must have wished he had stayed at home . |
| 6 | Wednesday must have wished he had , the way Atkinson chested down and volleyed home a 20th-minute clearance , then spun brilliantly on a Neal Cox through ball to score a second after 67 . |
| 7 | She was n't cruel enough to tell him that there had been times when she had almost wished he had . |
| 8 | Suffice to say that the young medic concerned must have wished he 'd picked on any person in the history of Equity rather than your hyper-ventilating authoress . |
| 9 | The smile she flashed into Rune 's brooding face was so blinding that he must have wished he 'd brought sunglasses with him , Gina thought uncharitably , wondering how he would take his peremptory dismissal to the bar . |
| 10 | ‘ In the circumstances , although I could have wished he 'd delayed his visit another hour or so , the edge of my temper had become somewhat dulled by recent events . |
| 11 | I had a feeling when I read those words over 40 years ago , and written in the heat of the aftermath of a long and tiresome period of war , that Sir Arthur might have wished he had put it differently . |
| 12 | It is not true I married for a red corduroy jacket belonging to my wife 's father ; but there is no denying he did pass it on to me , as a sort of dowry I believe . |
| 13 | Simon , yesterday , denying he was on the prom at all . |
| 14 | It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do . |
| 15 | There was no denying he was an exceptionally attractive man . |
| 16 | Somehow in the days they had spent together he had twined himself within her heart and soul so completely that there was no denying he was there to stay . |
| 17 | There was no denying he was forgetful . |
| 18 | Colour flooded her cheeks as she realised he was accusing her of posing and denying he had had anything to do with it . |
| 19 | If permission to develop land is refused or granted subject to conditions , whether by the local planning authority or by the Secretary of State for the Environment , and the owner of the land claims that the land has become incapable of reasonably beneficial use in its existing state and can not be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use by the carrying out of any development which has been or would be permitted he may serve on the Council , a purchase notice requiring the Council to purchase his interest in the land in accordance with the provisions of Part IX of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 . |
| 20 | because we 'll have the cash , we 'll go and buy he said all you need is your amplifier and that did n't he ? |
| 21 | Report he 's doing tomorrow ? |
| 22 | But six years after qualifying he became a partner in Price Waterhouse and somehow never quite got into the pure consultancy side . |
| 23 | When Count Philip of Flanders suspected that his wife had committed adultery with Gautier de Fontaines he had the young man killed by hanging him upside down in a cess-pit . |
| 24 | And in a vain attempt to make Williams jump he said , ‘ I rather think we may have to tighten up on one or two things round here . ’ |
| 25 | got that sorted he was speaking to Guy yesterday and apparently if after two days we do n't have certificates then I |
| 26 | A few folk went to his place before sunrise yesterday , just to let him know he had better have no hand in the lists . |
| 27 | Thus , Oedipus married Jocasta and knew he did ; he also married his mother and did not know he did . |
| 28 | Did he know he would die a few years later ? |
| 29 | — Did you know he was Jewish , someone asked ? — The Queen 's physician ? — No , Michael Caine . |
| 30 | He was surprised to receive shortly afterwards an invoice from the first agency informing him that his Visa account had been debited for £153 for tickets he did n't know he had bought . |