Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said Oh he says Never worry about that He said nobody in my . |
| 2 | the school are doing nothing , okay what did they do , they stopped the money , yeah , they stopped him from having money , they made him pay money back which I 'm pleased about that he got |
| 3 | have to tell Bob whatever he might like to talk about that he turns it to the Poll Tax , the fact of the matter is that the Poll Tax is nothing to do with Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 4 | He then goes on to list and classify a lengthy and diverse list : visions , dreams , voices , discussions , parables , speeches , proverbs , rituals , laws , songs , drama , poetry , letters , ciphers , anthologies , history , records and stories , and for each he gives chapter and verse . |
| 5 | Only if the chief constable expressed his order in terms such as that he considered any injury to his men to constitute serious public disorder might the courts be prepared to intervene . |
| 6 | However , the right hon. Gentleman has shown that he is indeed a right honourable gentleman , and for that he deserves great credit . |
| 7 | Maria Filippa understood his lassitude , condoned his inertia ; and for that he felt an overwhelming gratitude , because he knew other wives who would have grown impatient with such a husband , who had begun so promising , so full of the future and then … what with headaches , lack of nerve , had found he no longer had the energy , the stomach for getting on . |
| 8 | In where 's Lisa , Where 's Freddie , anyway it 's Where 's Wally , for that he said er I think I 'll get a picture of somebody and er course he I said you gon na call it Where 's Wally ? |
| 9 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 10 | For that he had to guarantee that he 'd work on government farming projects for a minimum of two years . |
| 11 | I was the first person to take him simply as he was , and for that he showed his gratitude by giving me a light kiss on the cheek in the darkened carriage . |
| 12 | I stopped his neighbours burning his house once , and for that he owes me . |
| 13 | Nicky has to find somewhere to live , and for that he needs money … . |
| 14 | He was therefore interested in stepping up controlled deliveries , and for that he needed intelligent , well-motivated CIs who could pose as suppliers . |
| 15 | ‘ And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel , At even , then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt : And in the morning , then ye shall see the glory of the Lord ; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord : and what are we , that ye murmur against us ? |
| 16 | I heard something about this he said , er I was on holidays all last week he said but erm it 's bloody lies cos I saw him last week . |
| 17 | When Toscanini was told about this he doubled their winning for them . |
| 18 | But about this he did not care . |
| 19 | And through another he saw a classroom with lots of tiny desks and a blackboard at one end . |
| 20 | While employed at St Stephen 's , he lived within the parish of St Margaret , Westminster , and he was active in parish life at least from 1522 onwards ; during 1552–4 he served as one of the churchwardens . |
| 21 | During 1939–44 he spent several years teaching in North America , at Hartford Seminary and at Fisk University , and he received an honorary DD from Wesley College , Winnipeg . |
| 22 | He came in one afternoon and started painting black and white stripes round the fuselage and wings , when asked the reason for this he said it was a new allied marking . |
| 23 | For Peirce , statistical sampling is the fundamental kind of ampliative inference , and for this he derives its ‘ validity ’ from his understanding of reality — its repeated use will take us to the truth in the long run . |
| 24 | For this he fought a hard ten-round contest . |
| 25 | To pay for this he raised a mortgage of £500 on his house . |
| 26 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 27 | Cedric had been just too young for the war , and for this he had never forgiven Fate . |
| 28 | For this he had a very big telescope . |
| 29 | For this he cites Pinnel 's Case . |
| 30 | Walker ( 1975 ) has noted that mature students who did not satisfy the GER obtained significantly better degree results than all students while mature students who satisfied the GER did not differ significantly from the norm , and in seeking an explanation for this he points to the fact that those who did not satisfy the GER are on average somewhat older and can be seen as genuine returners , rather than students who have taken longer to meet the traditional qualifications . |