Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he expected her to curtsy . |
| 2 | Perhaps he wants it as credit to set against his future crimes . ’ |
| 3 | New things had happened , the spread of the scientific temper , erm reasonably effective and cheap methods of contraception , the emancipation of women due to the development of industry , the decay of Christianity , all these various factors made the old conception of marriage out of date , and so he takes it in hand , he pillories it , and he suggests new possibilities , of which one seems to be nowadays obtaining favour , that 's trial marriage , i.e. that people should experiment with living together erm so long as they do n't intend at that stage to have children , before they finally decide to marry and settle down . |
| 4 | So he bought it for Christmas for you no |
| 5 | But even so he stripped her without haste , all the while keeping up a slow calculated assault on her senses , until the only thought she could cling to was that she must n't reveal her love . |
| 6 | So he put it in shed , left it in shed for a while and then it were not last year the year before , he took it down , I 'm putting this in dustbin duck he says it 's no damn good , we went on holiday and me daughter 's boyfriend came down while we were away and er , he must of been looking in dustbin he says what 's this telly doing , our Mandy said it 's no good , me dad 's slinging it out , so he took it home and fixed it , it 's been going ever since |
| 7 | When he took Nicandra 's plate away he held it for Maman to see , hoping perhaps that a little annoyance might irritate her back to liveliness . |
| 8 | Well he beat me at dinner at erm |
| 9 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 10 | Then he told me about chaology , which he called the new buzz thing . |
| 11 | But then he took her by surprise . |
| 12 | He gave us his telephone number at the Ministry , and one afternoon when we rang him there he invited us to dinner . |
| 13 | He does not spend his welfare money on his family as he should do , instead he spends it on drink for himself . |
| 14 | Cleverly he arranged it at night when there were no cars parked in Clifton Street , otherwise the swing of the 50-feet car would surely have reached them ! |