Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinct caused him to put out both hands in an attempt to break the fall , and Ellwood was on him , the rod flailing , blood rising from Carey 's face in a thick mist of spray , the hook going into his flesh wherever it landed and ripping out again as Ellwood 's arms rose and fell , rose and fell . |
| 2 | In the second session Prost improved and Damon ran into brake problems which left him doing very few laps , none of which was faster than his Friday effort . |
| 3 | My grandfather was a pillar of the Kirk , a gentle man with a pawky wit , and it used to amuse him to read aloud these rhymes to my Granny , exhorting her to choose one for him . |
| 4 | Lecourt has pointed to the absence of ‘ a concept that would enable him to think together several histories with different statuses ; in short , the concept of a differential history ’ . |
| 5 | The amateurishness of Will Hay does n't stop him winning over some Nazis , giving the others a good lesson in the English way of doing things , and bringing home their secret weapon in The Goose Steps Out ( 1942 ) . |
| 6 | The sultan , however , refused to avail himself of this " Vienna Note " , on the grounds that it required him to make too many concessions . |
| 7 | He made so many plans for this wedding . |
| 8 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 9 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 10 | She said it because Rory was in her mind , and he had told her he lived not many miles from Belleeks , at a little crossroads in the lower hills . |
| 11 | Athelstan was an ‘ emperor ’ ( if he was ) because he ruled over several kingdoms ; the kings of León-Castile in the eleventh and twelfth centuries were sometimes called emperors for a slightly different reason , that they had aspirations to rule over other peoples . |
| 12 | He produced as many copies as possible in the economical A state , stopping the press at once to rejig the type . |
| 13 | And he goes away most weekends . |
| 14 | He asked why some families , but not others , lived in squalor on incomes which , although low , were sufficient for necessities . |
| 15 | He asked how many eggcups she had and what colour they was |
| 16 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 17 | He did have a job in the Foreign Literature Publishing House , but he sought out any visitors from London , eager for gossip , and frequently talked about returning . |
| 18 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 19 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 20 | He owned so many feddans of land . |
| 21 | He tried so many times before |
| 22 | dirty , only bottoms , Paula he has n't any jackets |
| 23 | And he has n't any children . |
| 24 | ‘ And he has so many patients with much worse ailments that he took quite a robust view of my case . ’ |
| 25 | He has so few doubts , and his objectives are so suspect . |
| 26 | He has so few doubts , and his objectives are so suspect . |
| 27 | He may be great in the eyes of the world , with his property and wealth , but he has very few friends to attend his funeral and never achieves the only thing he cares about . |
| 28 | I do n't think he has that many visitors and I feel we should give him all the support we can . ’ |
| 29 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 30 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |