Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 2 | In fact , with Daddy it was all work apparently he put in some ridiculous hours . |
| 3 | Perhaps he hopes by this means to get the best of both worlds ; actually , of course , he gets the worst . |
| 4 | Perhaps he came on that . |
| 5 | Perhaps he thought of this too when he climbed on the chair and made a noose at the end of the rope , a very neat noose with the rope bound ten times round the loop in even rings . |
| 6 | Perhaps he existed after all . ’ |
| 7 | And so he waited for these really rather unexpected people to explain what they required , and hoped he would be able to do whatever it was . |
| 8 | So he went through all the glasses until finally they said to me , ‘ Take yours off , ’ and they fitted Rock Hudson perfectly , and he looked in the mirror and said , ‘ I think I look rather good in glasses . ’ |
| 9 | So he came along this morning and picked it up ! |
| 10 | Further , these general behavioural characteristics can easily he confused with those of normal adolescence or personal idiosyncrasy and , conversely , one may find much " normal " behaviour even in those who have severe addictive disease . |
| 11 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 12 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
| 13 | Charles detected a tendency for his teeth to chatter and grew indignant the more he thought of this flagrant breach of the conventions . |
| 14 | Miller had also known this to flower at Hampton Court , although more than once he speaks with some disparagement of inefficient gardeners at this Palace . |
| 15 | And of course DaSilva erm , not flashing those strokes round like he did on that first innings er , playing a very sensible innings from the point of view of Sri Lanka , but his erm , have n't seen many of his flashing strokes . |
| 16 | God help us with the economy , if he comes up with a crackpot idea like he did over these grading appeals . |
| 17 | Pepper was on hand , as always , to take the pass from Kilford 's fine break down the left for his third try under the posts and seven minutes later he cut through some dispirited defence to provide the scoring pass to wing Richard Byrom . |
| 18 | Some years later he commented on this to Minton who gave an insight into their insouciance : draw in the morning , when fresh , he advised , so that you can enjoy yourself in the afternoon . |
| 19 | About a week later he explained at more length that the committee had seen all the drawings and liked them with this one exception . |
| 20 | For Locke , God made all men free and equal and set no one in power over them ; similarly he gave to all men the earth and its fruits by which to support their life . |
| 21 | So Stuart was going first , and er he would pick on this , you know , supposedly he talking to this girl sprawled out and |
| 22 | So now he had in all 10,025.07 votes , 1,118.07 of them surplus to the quota . |
| 23 | Now he called at this house and said that he was er visiting for |
| 24 | Well he said on that tape , I gave them a fat cheque of six thousand pounds . |
| 25 | She said well he said after that I got it off pneumonia . |
| 26 | Well he mixed with all the stars and of course , I suppose part of the underworld , but er they reckon that he did n't kill himself , I mean they did bring it in as suicide but er they reckon that you know , there 's people think he was murdered . |
| 27 | ‘ Well he lives in that little cottage at the bottom of the steep pitch just past the green , ’ Joe continued with a grin , ‘ as he staggers down the hill his legs have to go faster and faster to stop him falling on his face . ’ |
| 28 | A couple of years ago he wrote to several of our authors saying that he was dying , their work meant a lot to him , could they write something for him . |
| 29 | Here he comes with that idiot Gladys White . ’ |
| 30 | At 6.40am he tried for another bearing , but their signal was now so weak , Darwin were unable to comply . |