Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 2 | and if he wants to send them as one consignment , but now the value is twenty five thousand pounds collectively you can ring up Stubbings and as , or get your F and A to do this for you , Finance and Admin , ring up Stubbings and can you give me a special rate for these goods and ar , can you give me what I can charge them for special coverage to take it higher than our normal coverage of fifteen thousand pound ? |
| 3 | yeah , and the tomatoes were n't bright , ca n't get no more of them nectarines , when he says keep 'em for two days cos they were hard , gets after two days |
| 4 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 5 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 6 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 7 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 8 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 9 | Nor could he have said it in 1985 , when the uprating was 35p per child below inflation . |
| 10 | He did feed them at one time , but they became so rampant he had to stop . |
| 11 | he tries to do it with one finger but he 's just not quite strong enough |
| 12 | Well , now , when you see the doctor , if he decides to mend you with one or two stitches , you tell him I said , could he please give you a stitch to take home in a matchbox ? |
| 13 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 14 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 15 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 16 | He had crossed them off one by one until there was no one left but Una O'Malley . |
| 17 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 18 | He had found her in one of the outlying villages . |
| 19 | Earlier he had driven her to two tennis clubs to discuss membership . |
| 20 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 21 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 22 | He had one question left , and he wanted to put it to one or other of the children alone . |
| 23 | ‘ He wanted to see us at four-thirty . ’ |
| 24 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 25 | He 's said it about three times , on last year 's Channel 4 series Paul Merton The Series , and he grafted it , unnaturally , onto his screen persona very much as an anti-catchphrase , as a joke joke . |
| 26 | He 's left them on fourteen odd hours and they 'll be running out . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's left it about forty years too late to get uptight about mother . ’ |
| 28 | he 's put me in two rows like that |