Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 2 | And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home . |
| 3 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 4 | Mr Cottle looked up to acknowledge the reaction to this information , but at once looked down again when he saw Mungo and Emily grinning at each other . |
| 5 | I 'd rather him not travel it , I 'd rather him stop here on Sunday and not come home so that he 's got ample rest , cos he 's not getting it I , I , I du n no , I , I might be wrong , but he moans at me cos I knock me |
| 6 | " I do n't know why I came , I ca n't possibly tell them , " she thought as she watched the tiny man , perched up high as he circled meticulously round about on his chosen futureless employment , shouting : " Wor'-oss , Wor'-oss " to the dogs that followed him , as faithfully as seagulls follow a plough , when he made one of his grand and speedy turns . |
| 7 | That Colin 's come up today and he said , he said , did , erm , Dick do the job for you ? |
| 8 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 9 | See horse 's feet 's picked out properly before he goes out exercising and when he comes in exercise . |
| 10 | The latter had vanished as punctually as he had appeared . |
| 11 | ‘ Everything around playing has to be organised very carefully and he has to be mature in choosing the right time to play off the court . |
| 12 | Whatever one 's opinion , he has missed remarkably little considering he has had to cope with such an endless barrage of fast bowling . |
| 13 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 14 | The author would have done better here if he had avoided the generalisations . |
| 15 | Sometimes , Britten seems to have written more naturally when he did n't have words to set . |
| 16 | John Morris 's international prospects have been widely written off ever since he played Algy to David Gower 's Biggles in that amusing but ill-advised flying-circus routine on England 's last Australian tour . |
| 17 | It should be said straight away that he has done the job thoroughly . |
| 18 | Says his admiring boss Peter Reid : ‘ Mike has done really well since he came in . |
| 19 | A MAN was shot twice yesterday as he fled from five masked youths . |
| 20 | The 77-year-old Cranston , who had resigned as majority whip in 1990 and had dropped plans to seek re-election in 1992 on grounds of ill-health , was treated more severely because he had received by far the largest contributions and , unlike the others , had actively solicited funds . |
| 21 | Yet can not the elder referred to in the example be said to have acted morally even though he did not adhere to the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence ? |
| 22 | But the man who desires to know himself more completely — however strange and confusing his discoveries may be — he is drawn further within until he finds in the texts a mirror of his own complexity . |
| 23 | ‘ How was I supposed to know ? ’ he said , instantly aware that he had acted too hastily because he had been so angry with her . |
| 24 | His arms were raised above his head but not raised so far that he showed any fear either . |
| 25 | Brando was called twice more before he returned , at which point Howard strode off in a rage . |
| 26 | But he did not know him , and would not have cared too greatly if he had . |
| 27 | If Richard Herrnstein ( ’ IQ encounters with the press ’ , 28 April , p 230 ) has been treated as shabbily as he says by American newspapers , that is unforgivable . |
| 28 | He gets it checked as frequently as he checks the bottom line . |
| 29 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
| 30 | It was also presumably why he 'd sent Feargal off to Wexford , as a joke , because he 'd known damn well that he lived in Slane and that Ellie was likely to meet him again . |