Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.

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1 SPURS star Gordon Durie hopes to carry on today where he left off with new striking partner Teddy Sheringham .
2 Most of his friends were still on the loose while he had to come home eventually and he felt he was always answerable to ‘ the wife ’ .
3 I wait for him to come back up but he does n't .
4 I gave him the standard treatment and told him to come back immediately if he did n't get better . ’
5 if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor
6 His wretched heart began to pump ominously again and he closed his eyes for one second , tried to breathe slowly , tried to control himself .
7 He can continue to shoot so long as he keeps hitting , up to a maximum of 6 shots per turn .
8 The line being spoken is always in the same spot , so that if he turns his head from a familiar sentence he can be confident that he will be able to pick up again where he left off .
9 In 1979 he appeared in Coppola 's Apocalypse Now , but his career did n't really begin to pick up again until he checked into Cedar-Sinai Medical Center 's drug abuse programme in 1984 .
10 If any of these women were seriously important to him , she could n't tell from his attitude , so she was able to listen quite happily when he spoke about a play he had seen with Paula , or repeated an anecdote of Wendy 's about her job as a television production assistant .
11 The check would have given him more control over the hammers and the freedom to play more powerfully than he had done in 1777 , without making the piano jangle .
12 It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned .
13 He did not openly support the maintenance of the power of the House of Lords to veto legislation but he seemed to do so implicitly since he expressed concern that the authority of the Lords had been ‘ gravely diminished ’ He did , however , explicitly propose the introduction of proportional representation arguing that it ‘ may sometimes secure a hearing in the House of Commons for opinions which , though containing a good deal of truth , command little or comparatively little popularity ’ .
14 But I will continue to do less well than he does unless I let his judgement pre-empt mine .
15 He 's probably also going to do very well when he gets there .
16 Bradshaw was getting ready to go out again when he caught sight of what he later called ‘ indisputably the largest wave anybody has ever had to deal with ’ .
17 She wanted to go back home and he wanted to fulfil his mission and destroy the shapechangers .
18 There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it .
19 He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour .
20 Half the squadron had a go at Woolley , popping off a couple of rounds in his general direction and then having to dive away fast when he swung towards them .
21 SHAW Branch Manager John Powell had to pay up quicker than he expected after promising his staff an expenses-paid outing if they achieved their Royal Scottish leads target .
22 Trust him to screw up even when he dies . ’
23 The sudden snap of Joseph 's history book closing caused the senator to glance up briefly but he did n't pause in his monologue ; his abstracted gaze followed the younger boy for only a moment as he sauntered away along the deck .
24 Because I was insistent I want I want I wanted to speak to Rod and er I said no I when is con when is it convenient to ring back then cos he said he 's got the phone glued to his ear blah blah .
25 I think he has to I think he has to think very seriously before he starts to decry the achievements of this nation .
26 Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined .
27 In Canberra last week , he continued to blow as coldly as he had at Twickenham earlier this month and was disappointing , though whether he will be react positively to being dropped is a moot point .
28 Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) .
29 The covers rustled and her tightly held muscles loosened a bit , only to clench tightly again as he chuckled .
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