Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Keith tried a little drop last night and he said I must n't drink this so soon after then he had another sip must n't drink it and he |
| 2 | It 's self evident Mr Deputy Speaker that this government is utterly unconcerned to carry out an obligation to which is bound by a treaty , freely entered into and the minister must answer the question of how he squares this inactivity with regulation nine three which obliges registration officers to take reasonable steps to obtain information about who should be eligible to appear on the electoral role . |
| 3 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 4 | Bearing in mind this canal is in the middle of nowhere he returned ten minutes later with a bloke in a Land Rover . |
| 5 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 6 | Within three overs Gooch had his century , his first against Pakistan , 17th in all , ninth in his 27 Tests as England captain , and for once he bore little resemblance to lonely General Gordon , whose last stand is immortalised by George Joy in Leeds Art Gallery . |
| 7 | Before long he became part-time Bursar , and on his retirement from teaching in the late 1950s he had taken on the post full-time . |
| 8 | Before then he had 14 years in charge of West Ham , the club he joined as a schoolboy player and where he progressed through the ranks . |
| 9 | From there he made frequent visits to Jefferies ' Coate Farm and Reservoir , to well-off Townsend cousins in Clifton , and to the neighbouring Downs . |
| 10 | Until then he remains Prime Minister . |
| 11 | The other principal and active member was another lawyer , A.J. Wickens , K.C. , who owned an extensive collection of recordings at his Third Avenue N.W. home from whence he broadcast special programmes over the ‘ dinner hour ’ on Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays . |
| 12 | The outgoing Defence Minister , Gen. Le Duc Anh , had been promoted at the seventh CPV congress to second ranking member of the politburo , from where he controlled foreign policy . |
| 13 | In 1962 Piero Pieri addressed a Parisian audience on how he saw military history ‘ spilling over ’ into other aspects and specialisms of history , creating chain reactions which would bind them all together . |
| 14 | Anyone who is offering a proposal that requires a " yes " effort should be clear as to why he expects that effort to be made . |
| 15 | Then he hanged himself in the garage close to where he found battered Marion dying last week . |
| 16 | At least he got one thing right |
| 17 | I did not agree one bit with his speech , but I will say this for him : at least he has political integrity . |
| 18 | ‘ He may be ugly , but at least he writes good songs . ’ |