Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being endlessly reassured that , ‘ it 's not the tractor , it 's how long he stays out that field ploughing , ’ we give up craving a member that could be mistaken for the Eiffel Tower . |
| 2 | Perhaps he took too much medicine . ’ |
| 3 | You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now . |
| 4 | so he said well that 's you down but he said he wanted to cut them back . |
| 5 | So he said well all I can say is he said you wan na just forget that erm |
| 6 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 7 | I er I phoned him up to let him know I was going in and he 's not too far away you see so asked him if he 'd like to pop in so he did about half eleven . |
| 8 | So he buys how much does he get it for , do you know ? |
| 9 | He cheerfully did as he was told ; taking her command literally he heaped as many logs on as the large fireplace would take . |
| 10 | Even when he could not do it properly he loved it , and very soon he pleased as much as he was pleased . |
| 11 | They 'd suspected him , but of course he had made sure that there was no evidence and anyway he had n't any motive . |
| 12 | Have you noticed how he , he creeps that bit , he you know , he , he do n't keep back he , he just he gets just that bit behind the |
| 13 | How joyously Talich embraces the outer sections of this piece , and how movingly he draws out those long , yearning melodies in its middle episode . |
| 14 | The more he thought about that summer the pleasanter it seemed . |
| 15 | Later he put out some work to one of the five , but the journeymen returned , demanded he take it back and levied a charge of 3 guineas ( £3.15 ) for their loss of time in attending to " this act of justice " . |
| 16 | And six months later he did just that . |
| 17 | It was a memory he had n't known he had , and even now he knew very little about it beyond the fact that it involved him and his father and a railway tunnel . |
| 18 | Now he seemed rather less than pleasant … |
| 19 | Now when he wants go get outdoors he finds so many ways barred to him . |
| 20 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
| 21 | Well he came upstairs this morning , got on the bed and he went flop ! |
| 22 | Thank you for looking after on those really black days when even he seemed too much to cope with . |
| 23 | Wearily he pointed out each stack . |
| 24 | Sometimes he got as much as what would now be £1.50 to go home with . |
| 25 | Sometimes he drinks too much beer and goes to sleep in the toilet . ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes he wondered how many dead people there were to a cloud . |
| 27 | Sometimes he helped along this impression of participation by opening his mouth and shovelling his chin forward until someone interrupted him . |
| 28 | Well then he rung up few weeks ago and he said to June , we 'll need a car for a week . |
| 29 | ‘ Let me put it this way , Sir Robert , if Moodie dreaded our return then he had very little to fear . ’ |
| 30 | Daddy had so many plans for Walker Hall but then he had so little time to do much . |