Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he expected her to curtsy . |
| 2 | Perhaps he wants it as credit to set against his future crimes . ’ |
| 3 | New things had happened , the spread of the scientific temper , erm reasonably effective and cheap methods of contraception , the emancipation of women due to the development of industry , the decay of Christianity , all these various factors made the old conception of marriage out of date , and so he takes it in hand , he pillories it , and he suggests new possibilities , of which one seems to be nowadays obtaining favour , that 's trial marriage , i.e. that people should experiment with living together erm so long as they do n't intend at that stage to have children , before they finally decide to marry and settle down . |
| 4 | So he bought it for Christmas for you no |
| 5 | But even so he stripped her without haste , all the while keeping up a slow calculated assault on her senses , until the only thought she could cling to was that she must n't reveal her love . |
| 6 | So he put it in shed , left it in shed for a while and then it were not last year the year before , he took it down , I 'm putting this in dustbin duck he says it 's no damn good , we went on holiday and me daughter 's boyfriend came down while we were away and er , he must of been looking in dustbin he says what 's this telly doing , our Mandy said it 's no good , me dad 's slinging it out , so he took it home and fixed it , it 's been going ever since |
| 7 | When he took Nicandra 's plate away he held it for Maman to see , hoping perhaps that a little annoyance might irritate her back to liveliness . |
| 8 | Well he beat me at dinner at erm |
| 9 | Did n't he cover it at home ? |
| 10 | Why could n't he roast her in oil ? |
| 11 | Hamp I do n't , he did n't he sent it to home . |
| 12 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 13 | Then he told me about chaology , which he called the new buzz thing . |
| 14 | But then he took her by surprise . |
| 15 | He gave us his telephone number at the Ministry , and one afternoon when we rang him there he invited us to dinner . |
| 16 | He reanimated these bones but we are not told how he brought them to life . |
| 17 | The themes in the coverage were : the number and nastiness of the attacks ; how he did it in detail ; his sex life ; the causal effect of pornographic videos ; the chase by the police . |
| 18 | He does not spend his welfare money on his family as he should do , instead he spends it on drink for himself . |
| 19 | Biddle 's time at the mills drew to a close in 1853 , when he advertised them for sale . |
| 20 | and the ones that had been cast out would be without that thing , so that 's why it 's gone in relation to that it 's because those that did n't have the faith that the army officer had would be cast out as the sons , of the sons of the kingdom , that 's why he mentioned it in likeness |
| 21 | Cleverly he arranged it at night when there were no cars parked in Clifton Street , otherwise the swing of the 50-feet car would surely have reached them ! |