Example sentences of "he [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met him somewhere south of the river , I do n't know where . |
| 2 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 3 | It is this experience which first tempted Sohl to seek out the Geordie and eventually bring him down south . |
| 4 | He knows you 're better at his job and you turned him down flat . |
| 5 | It had taken him only half-an-hour to reach the heralded target figure , and it was poetic justice that Graham Gooch was his partner at the time . |
| 6 | He was intelligent enough to realize that his father would never allow him much freedom in the business and so he started his own training centre at Heald Grove , Rusholme . |
| 7 | The old farmer did not pay him much money . |
| 8 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 9 | The travelling chaos of a modern party leader 's election entourage had carried Major within a few miles of the home of the founder of the profession , a few of whose more troublesome contemporary practitioners are said to have caused him much irritation over the 16 months of his premiership . |
| 10 | Frank , 49 , who had requested the inquiry himself [ see p. 36843 ] , was a generally liked and respected member of the House , whose openness had originally won him much sympathy , although a detailed interview in Newsweek caused some offence . |
| 11 | I mean , their loan periods are somewhere about twenty five years whereby you probably realise in this country if a young er person wants to start a firm and he 's go to the bank they 're not gon na give him much scope at all ! |
| 12 | The quails and devilled bones , also the mutton cutlets give him much pleasure . |
| 13 | If they confirm that he left at one-thirty , then that does n't give him much time to have entered Randall Lodge and killed Wetherby ; he was practically at Ollerton by two a.m. , driving slowly despite being in his Daimler . |
| 14 | Unfortunately his work as art adviser did not allow him much time to paint , but some years ago , moving from urban to country surroundings , he found himself most excited by the wild moors and dales of Yorkshire , and once more began to paint . |
| 15 | Sparhawk , just back from questing in the Elenium , ready to claim the kingdom and woo the girl , discovers that his creator David Eddings does n't give him much time to breathe , and he 's off again : the A format of Domes of Fire ( Grafton , £4.99 ) is out this month — stay tuned for further instalments . |
| 16 | He was thirty-six years old and not yet married , mainly because his trips to Africa — where most of his work had been done — had not left him much time to find a suitable wife , though others in similar positions seemed to have achieved wives and marriages , whether suitable or not . |
| 17 | Charlotte seemed too distracted to give him much attention . |
| 18 | His short visit has given him much information about the courses but , more importantly , he now has an intimate feeling of how these young men and women , drawn from all walks of life , are trained . |
| 19 | I would have been standing erm about two or three foot away from him anyway sir , so that , including the distance height wise , I could have been er from the end of my weapon to his head or any part of his body there would have been a maximum of between four to five feet at least . |
| 20 | He made him successively Bishop of Chichester , of Ely and of Winchester , as well as Lord Almoner , and a member of the Privy Council . |
| 21 | The Principal of St John 's declared roundly that he was a lunatic — ‘ I saw him yesterday afternoon walking down the Bailey with one foot on the pavement and one foot in the gutter all the way ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ They talked to him yesterday afternoon , that was all . |
| 23 | ‘ We need to trace any members of the public who know Mr McEvoy and in particular anybody who saw him yesterday evening . ’ |
| 24 | The political police , the equivalent of Britain 's Special Branch , detained him yesterday morning . |
| 25 | find him more work |
| 26 | And it will cost him more money administrating . |
| 27 | That 's a cycle that cost him over two hundred pounds and it would cost him more money to have lights fitted now as an extra . |
| 28 | But for him to go self-employed will cost him more money than doing it on the bl black market . |
| 29 | So that 's now give him more garden space sort of thing . |
| 30 | No , do n't rile him up boy for god 's sake . |