Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] he " in BNC.

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1 Supposition is a dangerous practice , but the song ‘ Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft ’ could easily be about Gedge losing Rigby 's love to Duane .
2 Five songs from the CD and cassette version of the album made John Peel 's Festive 50 of 1987 with ‘ Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft ’ , the highest number three .
3 Everyone thinks he looks daft
4 ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably .
5 ‘ Well , everyone thinks he should just ignore it .
6 Everyone thinks he 's an absolute tit .
7 said to me has he , has she heard anything and I said no and I told her what she said .
8 Someone thinks he knows what is going on .
9 ‘ I know what it means , and I think this Mait of yours thinks he knows what it means .
10 If someone says he loves God , but hates his brother [ or teacher ] , he is a liar .
11 If someone says he loves God , but hates ‘ Boggers ’ , he is a liar .
12 I says he ai n't doing on me what he 's doing on Albert .
13 Cos Alex comes and he 's putting a bet on , I says he 'll have to put ten pence each way or whatever for me on
14 I says , well going to take , er cut these models out and stick them together I says he 's , he collects them .
15 I says , I says he 's go he ca n't lose his .
16 Aye anyway I says seeing 's it 's you I 'll go and tell him and I come upstairs so I come downstairs and I says he 's asleep , he says the idle get .
17 I says he gets bleeding worse him .
18 He no it 's summat entirely different , cos I says he were being sarcastic and keep your mouth shut if you ca n't speak normal .
19 No I did n't I says he .
20 That wee lad , and then the one from called about two o'clock he says I says he 's not in so and I says he 's away to swim or something what time did he go at ?
21 That wee lad , and then the one from called about two o'clock he says I says he 's not in so and I says he 's away to swim or something what time did he go at ?
22 I says he 's only away about ten minutes .
23 she was saying now is he still going with the girl that he was , that he 's going wi he was going with and I says he 's still .
24 Well I says Andy cut it down a bit like , even if you could cut , cut it down a bit for and I says he ca n't afford to give big housekeeping money and plus try and get a bus away to Kilkeel and take out , or take the wee girl out , what do you call her , Sonia .
25 and it jerked me , but she said it 's a muscle been pulled and it 's , it keeps spasm so she said er , could of been nasty , said I dare n't tell him , cos I says if I tell him it was his fault , I says he 'll never give me another ride , it 's again Thursday night coming back , and his car , you know the car kept , bump , bump , bump , bump , bump
26 I says he 's in the Army .
27 But everyone says he 's an absolute swine to nurses . ’
28 While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change .
29 It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent .
30 He himself says he ‘ spent five weeks entirely in the bush in the interior , partly on the ranges and partly on the belts of the Murray ’ .
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