Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drives her to work next day , humming unconcernedly into her silence . |
| 2 | He thinks they show great promise . |
| 3 | He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front . |
| 4 | Next time he rings you withhold this type of reward . |
| 5 | that up of a night and he has it going all night |
| 6 | So erm amongst the business property that he has he has this warehouse with |
| 7 | You were his victim ; he wants it to stay that way . |
| 8 | He wants that , yo , he wants you to put some water in that for a test , some of your water in that |
| 9 | He is nervous , Preston thought , he wants us to like each other . |
| 10 | ‘ It does n't mean a damn thing when he says we have low interest rates . |
| 11 | He says they caused considerable damage to property , hedgerows were burned out , buildings affected , farmers ' own equipment set on fire and their own crops . |
| 12 | He says he saw one person fall but he was n't hrut and it seems safe . |
| 13 | He says he saw one job but that 's already gone and that was last week . |
| 14 | He says he thinks indoor opera performances at a hundred and sixty pounds a ticket will still be popular , but now outdoor opera in beautiful settings with opera stars and clasical musicians are also becoming very popular . |
| 15 | ‘ He says he likes Long Way Home very much indeed . |
| 16 | In fact , he says he needs written permission a week in advance before delivery lorries can get to his home . |
| 17 | He says he has some sympathy with retailers , but at the end of the day it 's up to them to check on the authenticity of the goods they 're selling . |
| 18 | He says he has some disease . ’ |
| 19 | he describes what happened that night and talks about how the memorial is important because he never went to the funerals ofhis colleagues . |
| 20 | he describes what happened that night and talks about how the memorial is important because he never went to the funerals ofhis colleagues . |
| 21 | He checks I got enough money to buy the string , and then I go off . |
| 22 | he reckons I make better pastry than what I . |
| 23 | Twenty nine thousand he reckons he sold that plot for . |
| 24 | So when he uses the term utilitarianism he takes it to mean eudaemonistic consequentialism . |
| 25 | Pope also confirmed that Miller was widely read in high circles because when staying in Bath in 1743 , he wrote to the Earl of Marchmont about a meeting there with Lord Chesterfield who had told him that ‘ your Lordship is got a-head of all the Gardening Lords and that you have distanc 'd Lord Burlington and Lord Cobham in the true scientific parts , but he is studying before you and has here lying before him those Thesarurus 's from which he affirms you draw all knowledge , Miller 's Dictionaries . ’ |
| 26 | As more of the field officer 's job is bureaucratized and made more ‘ scientific ’ , he finds himself spending less time on the river bank . |
| 27 | Why simply that ‘ as an accomplished individual you have more stringent and exacting expectations ’ ( a banker 's way of saying he hopes I have more money than brains ) . |
| 28 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 29 | On the opening page of Amis 's first novel , Jim mentally decides on his own word when his professor uses another , deferentially pretending as an untenured lecturer to look amused at a weak professorial joke , and he promises himself to make another sort of face to himself when next alone . |
| 30 | He claims he took this picture of Mrs Hilali in Dahouk in Kurdistan last January when he says he saw her helping refugees . |