Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put me down , ’ she whispered through dry lips , and only after what seemed an eternity did he slowly lower her to one side . |
| 2 | But having put him in , he rarely consulted him on general policy issues and gave hint little role even in industrial disputes , which were still the traditional concern of the Board of Trade . |
| 3 | He swiftly chided himself for such thoughts ; he 'd been taught to shun physical contact , even on a platonic level . |
| 4 | In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest . |
| 5 | When he only bought them for three X ? |
| 6 | He just saw you as cheap labour and that was the end of it . |
| 7 | well how stupid why 's he just done it like that ? |
| 8 | ‘ And he just left it at that ? ’ |
| 9 | I did n't know there were a video , I says get your he just tuned it on any channel , I says get your remote control for your telly I says and click |
| 10 | He scarcely knew her after all . |
| 11 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 12 | Mr O'Shea said that in an ideal world , Mr O'Keeffe 's point was absolutely valid and he totally supported him in that . |
| 13 | There was a Puritan austerity about him that made one doubt whether he ever enjoyed anything at all . |
| 14 | If he ever hit her with that , he would probably kill her . |
| 15 | I do n't think he ever remembered anything from one week to the next , but he smoked his pipe comfortably , looking as intelligent as he could . |
| 16 | The look of a winner , but will he still have it in four years ' time ? |
| 17 | Uncle Albert told her that when he did the weeding , he always imagined himself as some great monster uprooting trees and scaring the tiny people hiding under the stones . |
| 18 | A Alan at erm pub used to like , he always got summat with black bean sauce . |
| 19 | I do n't know if he ever guessed my feelings but he always treated me with great kindness and understanding . |
| 20 | ‘ He always reminds me of those marvellous cavaliers , with all that hair . ’ |
| 21 | After his retirement in 1974 he quickly involved himself in local community work in the church and will several charities . |
| 22 | He was not quick to anger and confrontation ; shocks caught up with him slowly and he usually faced them in solitary depression rather than by throwing a scene . |
| 23 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 24 | He also told me about another ex-employee who 'd had a fatal motor accident … ’ |
| 25 | He also told her in great detail what kind of a woman Gina was . |
| 26 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 27 | He also instructs them in advanced forms of the system . |
| 28 | He probably did it to countless women all the time . |
| 29 | They were always changing them to try and balance up the take I suppose , on each , each leg of the route and there was always was the chief clerk then and him and I got on very well together and he really initiated me into running times . |
| 30 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |