Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes .
2 Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece .
3 So he sold them for four X.
4 Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh
5 I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff .
6 This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) .
7 He goes none of those northeners !
8 And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’
9 When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience .
10 He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix .
11 He led her into another room , and there listened , with a good deal of amazement , to Rose 's account of her extraordinary conversation with Nancy .
12 He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation .
13 he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah
14 He got it in nine seconds .
15 five in the second half , bloody hell three goals in three minutes , fifty five , fifty seven , fifty eight Don Goodman this bloke got a hat-trick , he got it within fifteen minutes
16 But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " .
17 Although agreeing that this approach raises value issues ( his first question ) , he thinks it of limited use in generating a range of curriculum alternatives ( second question ) , that it ignores the effects of choosing particular courses of action ( third question ) , and does not facilitate an examination of teacher 's common sense beliefs and opinions ( fourth question ) .
18 The rule devised was that if a man 's goods could be valued at £1 , but less than £2 , or alternatively if he owned nothing but received wages of £1 a year , he should pay 4d .
19 Captain 11 times , he repaid them with 3915 runs , 12 centuries , an average of 43.98 , and an adhesiveness more commonly found in tubes of Araldite .
20 He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him .
21 He read it with less pleasure
22 If he knew the path blindfold after one month , how well would he know it after fourteen years ?
23 With a pinch of ingenuity , he built one from Thermolite blocks rendered with cement and sand .
24 Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge .
25 He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced .
26 He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile .
27 When he came across the bodies in the middle of Gayton village , he found one with broken legs , but still alive .
28 What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities .
29 He found plenty of thickish sticks and picked up far more than he needed .
30 He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed .
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