Example sentences of "[vb base] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's then that you realise he keeps his psychotic tendencies hidden , only to be let out onstage . |
| 2 | Police say there were rumours in the village that he had a large sum , but friends say he kept it all in bank and building society accounts . |
| 3 | I hope he breaks his fucking legs . |
| 4 | I hope he paid you this week then . |
| 5 | I know that he kicked and punched me ; I know he told me this was what I wanted , that no one would ever love me , and this was all I was fit for ; and I know he raped me . |
| 6 | John Lill now has over sixty concertos in his repertoire , but we know he retains his special affection for Brahms , and he is soon to record both concertos for the second time . |
| 7 | you know that , that you know he saw something valuable and wanted to preserve presumably so |
| 8 | I understand he finalised it all today . ’ |
| 9 | I suppose he does his best . |
| 10 | I reckon he wants my working-class experience to give his puerile political ideas some authenticity . ’ |
| 11 | There , we demand he unlock his secret safe stuffed with laundered readies and produce sky's-your-limit expenses so that we can fly First Class to foreign lands and unearth bigger , better , albeit often unprintable , goss no other column will have access to . |
| 12 | All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap . |
| 13 | I guess he thought it safer to ask me there over the noise of the engine and in the babble of conversation than in some quiet spot alone , where we might be bugged . |
| 14 | She was , he was going in her cupboard , Mrs I gather he said you stupid idiot to her . |
| 15 | What he you mean he chose his own ? |
| 16 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 17 | ‘ You mean he got it wrong ? ’ |
| 18 | Well I think he made it clear that no jury could forget what everybody knew er which is of course er the the facts that emerged at the time er that the Birmingham Six were acquitted . |
| 19 | And he got the p he I think he said his first years pay was five shillings . |
| 20 | I think he allows her considerable freedom over her — her weakness , you know , and so she is quite content to work for him whatever the village may say of him , and they do , to be sure , say some very foolish things . |
| 21 | I think he saw his own inadequacies in her without making the connection . |
| 22 | Now his working for nine thousand , I think he thinks his working for pittance . |
| 23 | and I think he finds it difficult to speak |
| 24 | Yeah I but think he gave me all his drink . |
| 25 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 26 | He did his Masters here in I think he did his first degrees got that in India |
| 27 | And that was probably why I think he showed us that banner . |
| 28 | I think he found you intriguing ! |
| 29 | ‘ They recognise he puts his all into every game and they like that . |
| 30 | ‘ I see he spent his last leave at home in Pakistan , visiting his family . |