Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] he [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the president knew better than to let him go ; Mr Shultz stayed the course . |
| 2 | Mind you I suppose his head is erm smaller than his shoulders so that makes him like like a , sort of normal person . |
| 3 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 4 | She heard rather than saw him dive into the water and a moment later he surfaced beside her . |
| 5 | She felt rather than heard him say her name . |
| 6 | ‘ At least then the drummer feels he 's done something ; it 's using technology to help him , rather than making him feel he 's being replaced . ’ |
| 7 | But he was well liked , and his colleagues , rather than see him lose his job , would roll the old man into a hollow , covering him with heather to keep out the damp , and leave him sleeping soundly until the end of the day . |
| 8 | I will grant the most hardened criminal a reprieve rather than see him hang . |
| 9 | They were prepared to kill the journalist Broom-Parker rather than let him talk to me . |
| 10 | The harshness of the alcohol took his breath away and made him choke again , and Paul collapsed in a fit of laughter as he expelled half of it in a further bout of coughing . |
| 11 | Jezrael 's fingers crisped into the grit beneath her ; even her face worked with the adrenalin that surged up , so much did she want to shove him away and make him save himself . |
| 12 | Right right right right and does he live locally ? |
| 13 | " For pity 's sake be still and let him get a word in edgeways . " |
| 14 | Nutty had gone up to have a nose , sat behind the oil-drum stack early and seen him leave . |
| 15 | For example , the mother of a five-year-old who always cries when bedtime comes may give in every so often and let him stay up late because she can not bear to see tears . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps we can bring him here and let him rest under the trees . |
| 17 | And that wretched Richard , ’ she added impatiently , ‘ Has got me right in a corner by bringing that nice man here and letting him invite Dickie down to Devon . |
| 18 | Marjorie helps him on with his camelhair overcoat , a garment she persuaded him to buy against his better judgement , for it hangs well below his knees and , he thinks , accentuates his short stature , as well as making him look like a prosperous bookie . |
| 19 | The question is , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , does she entice him there or does he want to come ? |
| 20 | Coming out for the same reasons , Nicholas found him there and heard him make his excuses . |
| 21 | So after that I just lay there and let him do what he wanted and he would complain about that too . |
| 22 | She would not just sit there and let him do this to her ! |
| 23 | But she could n't just sit there and let him criticise her choice of friends . |
| 24 | Ken was in one of his usual moods trying to get his mental computer working — does he ignore them brusquely or does he make one of his faces and willingly sign an autograph ? |
| 25 | Would we like to come upstairs and help him fly his pigeons until Dr Jaffery arrived for iftar , the meal eaten at sunset each day during Ramadan ? |
| 26 | And there were times now , even amidst the hubbub of men , when the numbness reared its head again and made him think that eventually it would take over and he 'd descend into silence , cold unthinking silence . |
| 27 | There were moments of anguish , which tore him apart and made him sob along with her . |
| 28 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |