Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headaches , which in Italy had been tolerable when eased by a siesta or a day or two 's absence from the office , or the circolo , where he picked up most of his cases , had become unbearable in New York . |
| 2 | Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians . |
| 3 | The father allegedly admitted the abuse during therapy at the Gracewell Clinic where he completed only half the programme . |
| 4 | ‘ I could phone him with a problem and he had such insight that he could steer me through it , although he knew very little of the problems over here . ’ |
| 5 | Hotelling was a leading mathematical economist and statistician and , although he published very few papers in economic theory , his contributions to spatial economics , the economics of exhaustible resources , demand theory , utility theory , the analysis of the incidence of taxation , and welfare economics each assumed the stature of classics in his own lifetime . |
| 6 | When Khrushchev visited President Eisenhower in the United States of America , the Chinese authorities became furious , and denounced Khrushchev , so he cut off all military and economic aid to China , although he continued to support the Communist leader of Cuba , Fidel Castro . |
| 7 | He has said he lost something like £15,000 in potential earnings as a freelance builder and an injury suffered in the tournament has meant that he is unable to work — so he loses out both ways . |
| 8 | Everything gets registered by Mr Sorley so he knows how much work we 've done and how much to bill the clients . |
| 9 | He , say , needs a new roof on his house , so he checks how much he has in his account , gets a roofer to do the job , and writes him a cheque in pints . |
| 10 | No child to save the marriage , so he sets up some fishing straight away instead . |
| 11 | ( It is difficult for him … the incoming mail has become inaccessible until he frees up some of his allocated disk capacity ) . |
| 12 | The might before in the hotel lounge , with his wife , Lonnie , beside him , bemusedly aghast , he grilled a pleasant waitress until he knew how many tips she got each week , how many children she had , the frequency of men hitting on her and the general contour of her reality . |
| 13 | For example , if the accused was reconnoitring a home preparatory to burglary , he may not be guilty of this offence if he picks up some ladders which he has found in the garden . |
| 14 | If he becomes too much of a bore , deliberately choose others to speak rather than him . |
| 15 | So er , and the Chief Executive there would er , I think commit suicide if he , if he brought in less profits than the year before . |
| 16 | It might help if he realized how much you did love her . ’ |
| 17 | If he said too little , Godolphin would suspect him of concealment . |
| 18 | That implies that that person already knows the financial details of the second person , and if he does not that could create some problems . |
| 19 | ‘ If he digs up any more plants , ’ Mrs Ames said , smiling , ‘ I shall be very angry . ’ |
| 20 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 21 | The fair hair had faded to a dusty grey , and his skin looked pale and unhealthy , as if he spent too much time indoors , but the green eyes were lusty with life and rebellion against the confines of the wheelchair he was manoeuvring into the room — |
| 22 | It struck her as odd , for example , that Turner , if he spent so much time on Chelsea Reach , should n't have known that a seagull always alights on the highest point . |
| 23 | If he signals too much sympathy for the Danes in their problems in ratifying the Maastricht Treaty on European union , he will be under immediate attack from EC partners and pro-Europeans in his party . |
| 24 | Jansher , 22 , has talent and youth on his side and it would be unwise to say that if he fails again this year , he will never win the British Open . |
| 25 | Even if he ripped up all the pages on the table in front of him they would not be destroyed . |
| 26 | If he has too many bad experiences with other children , it may put him off social interaction . |
| 27 | If he accepts both those propositions , what pressure is the Northern Ireland Office putting on the Government to conform to those European Community rules ? |
| 28 | Let's see if the murderer left any trace behind , if he stood here any length of time waiting for his man . ’ |
| 29 | And at the cemetery the vicar , a man who looked as if he needed far more consolation than he would ever be capable of dispensing , had agreed to say a few words before Henry 's address . |
| 30 | Ranking means nothing and it is very sad to see Andre having such poor results in tournaments and rather puzzling in view of his amazing results in Davis Cup ; one wonders if he gives too much to that at his own expense ! |