Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to be alleged that the respondent had pushed the father of the two brothers so violently that he fell and cut his head and that he dragged or threw their sister in such a way as to cause bruising to her arm and neck . |
| 2 | Odd-Knut has never seen one either , but that is less of a surprise as the noise and smell of his dogs frighten most animals away long before he spots them . |
| 3 | David Norman used his words more precisely when he said they were ectothermic reptiles which were able to keep their bodies at a constant temperature ‘ by being very large and living in a warm , mild climate . ’ |
| 4 | QUIZ king Tim Brownsett came top of the boffs once again when he scooped the Brain of North Staffordshire title for the second time . |
| 5 | It 's got a face there and he 's got ears up there and he 's got erm the ears on the other head of his |
| 6 | ‘ You may find this job a little … unusual , ’ he said , choosing his words as carefully as he picked his way through stacks of jerrycans , bundles of wire , and anonymous green sacks . |
| 7 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 8 | ‘ But then what do these Ministry Inspectors know about education ? ’ resumed the headmaster hastily , discarding doubts as quickly as he had assumed them . |
| 9 | " A man who wants to talk at large about smoke may have to pick his words very carefully if he wants to exclude the suggestion that there is also a fire : but it can be done . " |
| 10 | And he knew I did n't have to be home for the kids or whatever , he knew my circumstances so well and he knew th exactly how much he could use me you know . |
| 11 | Kevin Drummond , QC , for McMartin , said the accused had gone to the police with his parents almost immediately and he had pled guilty to greatly reduced charges . |
| 12 | He got up and came to squat next to her , flipping through the pages rather impatiently until he stopped suddenly . |
| 13 | Morse turned to look at the waters once more before he left , then sat silently in the passenger-seat of the police car as Lewis had a final word with Sergeant Dixon . |
| 14 | To involve related professions as closely as he did was an innovation at that time . |
| 15 | be no problems as far as he knows . |
| 16 | According to his professor , he was thorough and conscientious rather than brilliant , taking his studies very seriously since he wanted both to improve himself and gain a qualification for when he finished playing . |
| 17 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 18 | Le Monde of June 9-10 estimated that in the 50 major , policy-determining laws of the 270 passed during Rocard 's term as Prime Minister , Rocard had relied on the support of the right and centre nearly three times as often as he relied on the PCF . |
| 19 | ‘ Sir Alexander Gibson , a seasoned conductor of the work , paces this ‘ Butterfly ’ with complete feeling , rising to its emotional peaks as surely as he responds to its moments of delicacy ’ . |
| 20 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |
| 21 | He bent to kiss her and before she could recover he had pulled the sheets over her and walked out , closing the door and going down the stairs as softly as he had come up . |
| 22 | He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children . |
| 23 | He barred papal providees as readily as he warned a provincial council off royal interests ; yet he acquiesced in the papal choice of primates and presided over three remarkable decades of churchcrown cooperation in the arrest of excommunicates . |
| 24 | RICHARD Gere is desperate to have children so long as he does not have to change any nappies . |
| 25 | ‘ My name 's Erskine Morris , ’ said the man , vanishing the cigarettes as deftly as he had produced them , and continuing to write as he spoke . |
| 26 | ( It is the same with Shakespeare , whose Hamlet , for instance , " talks more superficially than he acts " . ) |
| 27 | Did Humphreys suffer his major injuries when he fell from the disc jockey 's platform at the Hippodrome , or in the streets later on when he fled from the ambulance and was restrained once more ? |
| 28 | Throughout his successful career in which he won 24 Scottish caps , Macari was pursued by a cruel terracing joke ; if he could pass the bookies as well as he passes a ball he would be a millionaire in ten years . |
| 29 | She was about to put the binoculars down ashamedly when he lifted his eyes from the paper . |
| 30 | I got my first into the sea close off Sliema and the second was on the way out some miles further out and he went in without a top wing . |