Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E gets ter know all the business round this area . |
| 2 | ‘ I was glad 'e did n't get that site where our Carrie 's got 'er cafe , ’ she remarked . |
| 3 | Sometimes when I was drunk and I 'd see him standing there looking all quiet and black and white and gorgeous , waiting for someone to take him home , I 'd get all teary and want to go up and slap him and shout in his face : How can you possibly understand what it means ! |
| 4 | I saw him standing there getting wet all over him and I said to myself he was a fine person . |
| 5 | Inevitably a feeling of despair enveloped him and he began to feel quite helpless ; his heart was in his studies and he knew that if he could manage financially he could achieve his academic rewards , but the insufficient amounts of money his father allowed him did n't permit any freedom to relax after his studies had ended . |
| 6 | Going and having a few meals with him did n't seem evil or furtive in any way . |
| 7 | Mozart 's friends in Prague tried to persuade him to stay on to write another opera , but he declined . |
| 8 | But , I do n't ever remember seeing him sit down to have any . |
| 9 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 10 | By the beginning of 1668 , Jacob had joined his brother Isaac in England , and with him set about selling Hebrew books to a devoted clientele that included Henry Oldenburg , Robert Boyle , and Thomas Barlow of the Bodleian Library [ qq.v . ] . |
| 11 | He goes round saying wicked , it 's his favourite word . |
| 12 | An enchanting picture book by Ian Beck , The Teddy Robber , £6.95 is a wonderfully funny story of a giant who 's lost his teddy bear so he goes around stealing other teddies from wherever he can . |
| 13 | And he goes on to ask some similarly pertinent questions : ‘ To whom does a person 's body belong ? |
| 14 | He goes on to support this with an appeal to the testator 's intention , but it is a relatively modest one . |
| 15 | He goes on to observe that |
| 16 | He goes on to relate many other such stories , mainly involving apparitions on the mission field . |
| 17 | From that possibility , he goes on to blame bad potty-training for all her character defects . |
| 18 | He goes on to advise those still wrestling with uncertainty , ‘ He or she ought to examine , with the help of others , what his or her own attitudes to sexuality really are . |
| 19 | He compares war in modern circumstances with a plague , and tries to make us see that we have exactly the same universal common interest in transcending military conflict that we have in getting plague under control , and that it 's necessary to use all our intelligence and imagination to break the millennial connection of intersocial change with war , and then he goes on to make practical proposals . |
| 20 | Travel Trade Manager Bill Cameron tells Welcome how he goes about promoting Historic Scotland 's heritage sites at home and aboard . |
| 21 | So the girl is in on this , the artist and he goes off to meet this er bride-to-be at the airport and she comes in , perfectly , she looks like a model off of , off of Vogue , he practically drops dead of course . |
| 22 | I had not intended to contribute to the debate but the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) , who introduced the motion , was asked several questions during his introductory speech and he failed stoically to produce any answers . |
| 23 | Yet he failed either to get that first touch , or , if he did , failed to get it cleanly to Dewi Morris . |
| 24 | He tried earnestly to look cheerful , but their words made him shake with fear , sweat and turn hot and cold . |
| 25 | He tried hard to do this , but he was fighting a losing battle here against the rising tide of papal authority . |
| 26 | Erm was it only you that he phoned not to bring any scripts . |
| 27 | This habit was one reason why he found steady work difficult . ’ |
| 28 | So he did nothing for Mary or Rufus that morning , did not even seek them out , scarcely knew whether Rufus was still asleep on the terrace or back in bed with Mary , and when he found further sleep impossible because of his shivering body and pounding head , he sat in the kitchen making instant coffee for himself but took none up to them . |
| 29 | None of what he found now seems novel but that is , perhaps , because the study has become a classic . |
| 30 | Did he tell you he did n't have his side of support , I told him as long as he shouts just United that 's alright |