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

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1 A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here .
2 So if he 's got that place in a good state , it 's beholden on us
3 He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account .
4 ‘ You ca n't pester the poor man about money just after he 's had such a dreadful shock ! ’
5 ‘ Then he may join me indoors when he 's had enough , as I already have . ’
6 And even now that he has achieved all this he does n't stand still .
7 ‘ Well , let's hope he is , now that he 's got that letter back , ’ said Joe .
8 Typically though he refuses to make any outrageous predictions , except to offer the view that it will take time to get the club back up and running .
9 Vice-president MacFarlane will have plenty on his plate now as he tries to pull all the ideas together into the first draft paper on the way to creating the eventual plan for formal consideration in November .
10 Right , well so he 's done that has he ?
11 No er well well if he 's got any sense I I always tell the advertiser I said now the adv I said you as the advertiser have got to keep worrying you may have to chivvy them up .
12 Now you might say perhaps , without really thinking about it , well if he 's got any sense he wo n't have a lot of fe , faith in me because I am , I am a great failure , I 've let him down .
13 Even if he seeks to deploy fewer warheads per boat than the maximum possible , why should not other countries follow his example and say that that is also their ideal of a minimum deterrent ?
14 Woosnam names Bernhard Langer as his ‘ dark horse ’ and the German has succeeded in keeping an appropriately low profile even if he has had more practice rounds than anyone .
15 Yeah , erm , I was going to is that erm it was always the same , two jobs down so it was due to go his boss would have then I 've been there as well cos he 's caused such a stink
16 IT is true that John Fullard of Hartlepool only appears here when he has had some little difficulty with the Post Office .
17 There are detectives and DCIs and Chief Supers and Commanders every fucking where ; more tecs and CID guys and Anti-Terrorism Squad chaps and regional guys than you can shake a nightstick at , all asking questions , all asking the same fucking questions and me trying to give the same fucking answers ; seeing DI McDunn , sucking saliva through his teeth and letting me share.his B&Hs , is like meeting an old pal even though he 's got all his questions too .
18 He says he ca n't feel his feet even though he 's got all the right gear .
19 He suggests that he 's got no evidence , then that he 's got some evidence , then both at once : ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — the torture tune .
20 There 's aids and he 's chasing the bum and the bum 's running and the aids is going come on you little bastard and he 's going leave me alone and so he runs up a tree and there 's a bird there and he 's got all bones on him , he 's a s witch doctor and the bird goes , and the bird goes , what 's a matter ?
21 I do n't know what he took , no one here , full stop , they ca n't say well he ca n't say well I left it here either and he 's got any proof
22 Then the cat yells and he remembers he has n't fed it yet and he has to do that before he goes .
23 and it closes up again and he goes chew this or something blows up and then Arnie gets
24 Mr can I just ask the erm about the I think it 's very that he 's produced this er so that we can look across and make sort of comparisons between the proposals of the groups .
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