Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean he does the big functions and he does n't do a bad job |
| 2 | You know he obviously sees rich peasants as you know a more er unattractive class of peasant , I mean he sees the poor peasants as the real er vanguard of the revolution , the people who have done all the work and erm sacrificed er security at an early stage |
| 3 | ‘ I expect he timed the whole thing with a stopwatch , ’ said Greg . |
| 4 | Obviously , I think he made the right decision . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but I think he felt the peacekeeping mission was very worthwhile . ’ |
| 6 | I think he impressed the Inter Milan coach as well when they played did n't he ? |
| 7 | As I said to Kay it 's Terry that does all , he gets the money in , he pays all the bills , Muriel brings him the bills , I said he does all that apart from the fact I said he spent the whole day yesterday , the whole morning yesterday here clearing this , oh she said I did as well , erm you know help , I said what you , but as well as clearing |
| 8 | ‘ No , it is n't Matthew , although I pray he made the right decision . ’ |
| 9 | Mary Reveley 's stable star was one of those affected by the virus last February , which meant he missed the big Cheltenham and Aintree meetings . |
| 10 | When nobody spoke he broke the accusing silence . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean he played the bloody organ all night ? ’ |
| 12 | That 's what you want he said the thick stuff . |
| 13 | He forgets how annoying he can be and you know he swings the other way . |
| 14 | She knew he had the proverbial wife and two kids at Camberley . |
| 15 | Some time needs to be spent in conversation so that she feels he desires the total person and not just the body . |
| 16 | When she demurred he said the other possibility was that Holly had tipped them off . |
| 17 | Although Mr Headroom was actually flesh and blood posing as the unreal thing , there are plenty of computer animation specialists who think he had the right idea . |
| 18 | ILY BRATINA , an economist and veteran of two world wars and the Russian Revolution who said he saw the charred body of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker , has died aged 96 . |
| 19 | And other top Tories like Michael Heseltine and party chairman Norman Fowler will share the platform with him to show he has the full backing of the Cabinet . |
| 20 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 21 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 22 | He says he understood the new model was to be portable , and to be used by surrounding hospitals — and says he feels fundraisers have been misled . |
| 23 | I believe firmly that John McEnroe is not lying when he says he sees the small print on a tennis ball , and Jackie himself has often referred to his vision as a paramount essential in driving . |
| 24 | He says he joined the Labour Party in 1977 , seven years after he began work with the forerunner to the present local authority . |
| 25 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 26 | The senator paused to light his first Havana of the day and as he got it going he studied the matted vegetation of the riverbank through its smoke . |
| 27 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 28 | It seems he gave the fledgling architect his head . |
| 29 | He thought he had the upper hand while she was trapped here , and he was right — it made her feel awkward and uneasy , put her at a disadvantage . |
| 30 | He thought he glimpsed the slight gleam of light on a man 's belt , somewhere towards the bottom of the vegetable patch . |