Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One night 'e got set about over refusin' ter chuck a fight . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , ’ replied Jonadab. ’ 'E seemed good at his job . |
| 3 | ‘ Not exactly , sir — though I 'd wager Dighton did , for 'e turned pale as ashes . ’ |
| 4 | One more fing I like about me ole mucker Ingrams : 'e 'ates young people . |
| 5 | ‘ 'E seems fine . |
| 6 | ‘ It come to 'im from 'is dad ; 'e says 'e feels undressed without it an' do n't know whether it 's 'alf-past five or ten to eight when 'e gets up , or if it 's teatime or dinnertime . |
| 7 | Well , 'e become top scorer o' centuries when 'e was 42 and went on to 197 of 'em before 'e retired at 51 . |
| 8 | Blimey , 'is eyes bulged at that , 'e looked blue murder at me . |
| 9 | After 'e 'as 'is tea 'e falls asleep in that chair an' 'e 's like that till it 's time for bed . |
| 10 | ‘ Thoo 's walked 'ome from chapel together every Sunday for a couple o' years and now , when 'e does t'decent thing and asks me for thi 'and , thoo 's refusing . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Your father did not want to pay for the doctor , while the priest 'e comes free ! |
| 12 | He was among the last representatives of this kind of Anglo-French noble before the Hundred Years War , and the peace that subsisted between 1303 and 1324 enabled him to remain loyal to both his overlords . |
| 13 | While Poole was urging him to remain true above all to poetry , Coleridge still had no sense of a purely poetic , or even literary , vocation , and for the moment could offer only two vague plans for the future , ‘ the first impracticable — the second not likely to succeed ’ : he could ‘ make a portly Quarto ’ by translating all the works of Schiller , then set up a school at 100 guineas a head , or he could ‘ abjure Politics & carnal literature ’ altogether and become a dissenting parson . |
| 14 | She dismissed Frankie with a withering stare that warned him to remain silent . |
| 15 | The bond of brotherhood wishes him to go far but the bitter reality of family relationships cracked by circumstance makes him determined to see his own brother sink . |
| 16 | But for him to go self-employed will cost him more money than doing it on the bl black market . |
| 17 | Physics realised 67 per cent ; History a promising 77 per cent ; and Mathematics was strongest of all , with an average of 77 per cent over three subjects : algebra I and II at 72 per cent and 80 per cent , geometry at 86 per cent and trigonometry at 70 per cent ; ( he admitted to us that he had opted for the latter at school , because it enabled him to evade Latin ! ) . |
| 18 | They had no children , and at his death 13 September 1920 at his home ( Elibank , Walkerburn ) on the Tweed the barony conferred on him became extinct . |
| 19 | It is also clear that Castro 's overriding concern with the security , both military and economic , of his revolution obliged him to conduct domestic policy with one eye on Moscow . |
| 20 | Erm I shall ring him and ask him make sure he 's |
| 21 | The dream-poems of Chaucer and the French medieval poets before him make clear that it did not . |
| 22 | Similarly , within ATE areas testing could be supported by intelligent diagnostic information systems capable of guidance and support to the test engineer helping him assimilate complex failure history data and useful testing procedures . |
| 23 | James I did , on the specious excuse of the ransom due to England for his release ; James V blackmailed the papacy into allowing him to extort vast amounts of taxation from the church . |
| 24 | Tong ordered the pilot to circle Ho Chi Minh City to allow him to unload anti-communist leaflets over the city . |
| 25 | A letter written to Bush in early October by a group of 53 US senators , urging him to suspend economic assistance until the restoration of representative government in Pakistan , led an official Pakistani government spokesman on Oct. 22 to describe the senators as " a group opposed to the national interests of Pakistan " . |
| 26 | This global vision allows him to see foreign artists through Indian eyes and vice versa . |
| 27 | And Sacha says that staying close to his two sons Laurent , 28 , and 25-year-old Julien helps him stay young . |
| 28 | You concealed knowledge of a deserter , you actually helped him stay deserted , and They can make out a case for saying you still are . |
| 29 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 30 | Then he gets low and is already in a state of anxiety which tends to make him make poor judgements . |