Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] he [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another six inch long wound on his stomach is not as deep , but the area is badly swollen and he has another inch deep wound on his front leg where the knife was stuck in . ’ |
| 2 | The Divine purpose of life is almost entirely forgotten and he spends each lifetime self-centredly chasing after vanishing mirages . |
| 3 | Not for the benefit of others , he never does anything for the benefit of others , one can only feel that he sees some advantage in releasing these British people . |
| 4 | A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . " |
| 5 | His doubts only increased when he performed another job , midway to finally making up his mind about the Bolt play . |
| 6 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 7 | Just imagine if he knew that . ’ |
| 8 | But it just seemed that he held all the cards , he made all the decisions . |
| 9 | In fact , I think I 'll just see if he needs any help unpacking … ok Wendy . |
| 10 | Terrorism will come to an end when the terrorist no longer believes that he has any chance of securing his objective by the means that he is using . |
| 11 | He had been born in England , had never seen India , spoke English as his cradle tongue and had forgotten all the Hindi he had ever learned but he had all the immigrant 's protective reactions and all his self-consciousness . |
| 12 | It was claimed that he had confessed to spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency , but the US authorities had always denied that he had any official connections . |
| 13 | He still maintains that he believes this , and makes a great show of sending off a manuscript to publishers down in London , trying to get them to publish a book expounding this view , but I know he 's just mischief-making again , and gets most of his pleasure from his acts of stunned disbelief and then righteous indignation when the manuscript is eventually returned . |
| 14 | Is a judge ever conscious that his reputation as a judge is likely to be adversely affected in their eyes if he decides one way , and favourably affected if he decides another way ? |
| 15 | He had the arrogance and the charisma of a Bob Stanford-Tuck or Doug Bader , but I will also add that he had that indefinable something that was an essential ingredient in an outstanding bomber pilot . |
| 16 | ‘ I was told by others that Benny really laughed when he got that fax . |
| 17 | Mr Gavron cheerfully admits that he has more staff than he needs to handle the currently depressed workload . |
| 18 | Having flatly denied that he has any intention of going to British Rail , Sir David Plastow , chairman of Vickers , yesterday announced that he has installed a ‘ safety valve ’ guaranteeing that he will not be solely responsible should his company hit the slippery slope . |
| 19 | ‘ Frank S again showed that he has that combination of speed and strength that first team coach Egil Olsen is looking for . |
| 20 | Hall appeared with a letter from the Duke , who perhaps not unexpectedly said that he had some ‘ pressing business in Scotland ’ and , therefore , regretfully had to resign his duties , 2 although Burn later said that this was due to the death of the Duke 's uncle . |
| 21 | You would never guess that he had any problems . ’ |
| 22 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 23 | Stair , who usually ignored Neil since his brother had given up his privileged life and become an East End doctor , occasionally felt that he had some sort of duty to him ; he was , after all , his heir . |
| 24 | The campaign in favour of the name change was led by Anatoly Sobchak , the radical city council leader , and supported mainly by intellectuals and young people ; the head of the Russian Orthodox Church also supported St Petersburg , and Yeltsin too indicated that he favoured this change . |