Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt sorry fer 'er Ernie. 'E come 'ome that night wiv a few drinks inside 'im an' 'im an' Maudie got at it . |
| 2 | If a member of a committee receives a letter asking him to carry out some job for the committee between meetings , he must feed back the information that he will do this and , when he has done it , the information that he has done it . |
| 3 | The powers that exist to enable him to carry out this task are expressly preserved by the Act , and it is essential to consider their scope in some detail . |
| 4 | He forecast Mr Davies would never stand as candidate , ‘ because if the Labour Party allows him to go forward this seat will actually be won by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 5 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 6 | When Jim , of Ravenscliffe , West Yorks , went to the police station , officers told him to come back another day . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell him to come back this afternoon , or tomorrow — or next week … or something . |
| 8 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 9 | He remembers him going out that day with his orange reflector coat on . |
| 10 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ Brown 's problem could be the result of him doing too much bowling , and underlines the need for us to rotate our bowlers . |
| 11 | ‘ How come you let him have so much scrump ? ’ |
| 12 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 13 | But he did not engage the jackdaws and Hazel saw him pick up another carrot and start back with it . |
| 14 | He has an excellent background in support , not involved in in the running but continuous interest and support and for him to take on this challenge shows a particular kind of commitment to the work of the Save The Children Fund and we 're very grateful to him for taking it on and I sincerely hope that he will enjoy the experience , especially after meeting all of you today . |
| 15 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ I have written to Mr Lang urging him to take up this opportunity as a matter of urgency . |
| 16 | And , anyway , it was from the British he made his money , selling them scrap iron during the war , so it will be an extra pleasure to make him cough up that sort of loot . ’ |
| 17 | A guy I ai n't worked for before said he wanted to use someone from up here to call on a man in Brighton and advise him to lay off some property . |
| 18 | What , Guy wondered , furious with himself , had possessed him to bring up that day ? |
| 19 | He looked unseeingly at the beautiful face across the table , hearing the echo of his quarrel with Francesca , feeling his mind still chuntering on in justification of the anger that had led him to cut off all possibility of their holiday next week . |
| 20 | There was a brief recording of an interview with him conducted earlier that morning in front of the Kemp Town nick . |
| 21 | In the worst possible case , that would slice A$250m off the result for this year , and nobody could have expected him to make up that sort of ground . |
| 22 | FINANCIER George Soros 's £35 million donation to Bosnian aid agencies was generous but surely something should be done about the crazy money markets that allowed him to make so much money so quickly . |
| 23 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 24 | In February 1981 , after fifteen months hors de combat , he made yet another reappearance , this time in the valuable Whitbread Trial Chase at Ascot . |
| 25 | His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one . |
| 26 | Pete must have dropped onto his bed without undressing , he made so little sound . |
| 27 | Walking on his hands , he made hardly any noise , only a carpet-slipper slapping of palms against the floor . |
| 28 | He made far more play than his father ( or other ninth-century Carolingians ) with the penalty of the harmscara — a public humiliation imposed at the ruler 's discretion which involved the victim 's carrying a saddle on his back . |
| 29 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 30 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |