Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb infin] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 2 | He gambles that I will not leap down and pursue him along the pavement . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll pop down and see him after dinner . ’ |
| 4 | Cashman had not come into Cadogan 's before , preferring Matthew to go down and see him in Hampshire . |
| 5 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
| 6 | ‘ Reward a young horse for being good rather than punish him for being naughty ’ |
| 7 | Rather than punish him for the attempted rebellion , Henry gave Richard the task of quelling the very Aquitainian rebels from whom he had so recently looked for support . |
| 8 | Rather than wake him by pulling the clothes off him and having to face the likely consequences , Mrs Stych put her housecoat over her nightgown , got a spare blanket out of her old hope chest , and eased herself down beside the chrysalis which was her husband . |
| 9 | Rather than leave him in pace , the minotaur , video monitors blinking in its belly , hydraulic arms swinging over the crowd , turns round for a second go … |
| 10 | Rather than follow him into this detail , it is more important here to underline an important general characteristic which Hobbes says the claim has . |
| 11 | Now he was peeved because his secretary , whom he had categorized as intelligent , sensible , dedicated , preferred to stay in Norfolk with her lover , a man he despised , rather than follow him to London . |
| 12 | Her large eyes were fixed on him , and she wished that she could go away and leave him in peace when he had laboured for so long and so hard . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ Many of them were aware of him and the job he does , but the first thing they did was to rush over and ask him for his autograph . ’ |
| 14 | I could tell him when his crown 's starting to fall off and remind him of the royal plural — and , well , lots of things ! |
| 15 | She turned away impatiently , determined to swim off and leave him to it , but he slid into the water beside her and grasped her wet arm . |
| 16 | Somehow , in his absence the fun went out of it and I decided to slope off and join him on the flat . |
| 17 | Because he thinks a woman is not gon na get up and smack him in the face . |
| 18 | I understand that he wrote to all members of the Cabinet asking them to turn up and support him in the votes after previous debates on this project . |
| 19 | But I 'll go up and see him about it , talk to him and explain . |
| 20 | She wanted to reach out and hold him to her , to draw him close and comfort him , but it was too late now . |
| 21 | Already Parfois seemed to lie behind them , and Harry had almost lost that tense expectation that at every step someone would reach out and take him by the shoulder to haul him back into captivity . |
| 22 | Given the brief span of their acquaintance , the even briefer time they had actually spent together , how could he have been so presumptuous as to imagine that she would wish to fly out and join him at the Plaza ? |
| 23 | I was just wondering , having reached my seat , whether I could whip back and tell him to belt it out a bit , when it stopped altogether . |
| 24 | You could go back and confront him with the photo now . |
| 25 | He said to go away and come back and see him in a year 's time . ’ |
| 26 | I 'll go around and see him in a minute . |
| 27 | At this point some vainglorious politician would step forward and present him with a book such as this one . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's not true ! ’ she exclaimed , wanting to step forward and grab him by the arm . |
| 29 | So I can go upstairs and put him in his rocking chair . |
| 30 | There was an edge to Jake 's voice now , an edge of hostility , that caused her to turn round and look him in the face . |