Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The verdict It wants greasin ’ was repeated to the dealer ; but as he was a Suffolk man himself he summed up the situation in a moment . |
2 | He was badly injured when a rowing boat , which he took on the lake sank , because it had not been properly maintained by the Trust . |
3 | He says that he had considered many courses of action , this was one which he took on the spur of the moment . |
4 | Worried that the Colonel might leap into army talk for which he had neither the preparation nor the inclination , Hope let flow a hand and beckoned in all about them . |
5 | After an early honeymoon period during which he drove underground the anarchist trade union , the CNT , suppressed Catalan nationalism , brought peace to Morocco , and benefited from a shortlived economic boom , Primo de Rivera 's credit gradually exhausted itself . |
6 | Stephen Maturin , in the dry tone with which he recognises unobtrusively the exuberance and naïveté of Lucky Jack Aubrey , receives the news that ‘ Bach had a father ’ with : |
7 | In his work Book availability and the library users , Buckland reports on a study carried out on the short loan collection at Lancaster University , in which he relates both the loan period and the library 's duplication policy to demand for individual titles . |
8 | Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium . |
9 | ‘ Any person who on any premises — as aforesaid , carries on an offensive trade without such consent , if any , as at the date of establishment of the trade was required by subsection ( 1 ) of this section … shall be liable for a fine not exceeding £5 for every day on which he carried on the trade — after receiving notice from the local authority to discontinue the trade ’ . |
10 | Soon afterwards the headman came out of the inner room , carrying a plate of rice grains which he put on the ground beside him . |
11 | Because of his age and of coalition games of musical-chairs , he may nonetheless not win this post for which he has both the expertise and the gravitas . |
12 | Like a foreigner or a man out of his social class , he [ the Rationalist ] is bewildered by a tradition and habit of behaviour of which he knows only the surface ; a butler or an observant house-maid has the advantage of him . |
13 | His red Renault 9 , which he bought just the week before , was seen by truck driver Mr Burrige to indicate as it slowed to turn right from a central refuge . |
14 | Living in close proximity in such a small cottage may have caused difficulties ; one gathers that Coleridge 's domestic arrangements included benevolent toleration of mice , whom he had not the heart to kill . |
15 | He he went out the channel went on the boat . |
16 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |