Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E went ter live wiv 'is daughter an' 'er ‘ usband somewhere in Kent . |
| 2 | I felt sorry fer 'er Ernie. 'E come 'ome that night wiv a few drinks inside 'im an' 'im an' Maudie got at it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Since his debut in 1984 , he has largely been cast in the role of workhorse for West Indies , his seemingly effortless , languid approach to the wicket enabling him to bowl fairly long spells , even in hot and humid conditions . |
| 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 | Jodie Foster offered him respect , helped him laugh away other people 's pretensions . |
| 7 | Lévi-Strauss sought to demonstrate that similar oppositions operate in kinship and mythic systems enabling him to compare apparently unlike kinship systems and myths from different cultures and show the structural continuity of mythemes , and kin relationships , across what are , at first sight , very different cultures . |
| 8 | In deference to her mother 's prudent requests Helen had asked him to write only one letter a week . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | X and Y , discovering that Z intended to commit a burglary in A's house , arranged together to persuade him to steal therefrom certain articles for them . |
| 11 | One has one 's pride said the house , let him sleep somewhere less grand , he 's only a tramp . |
| 12 | He must be coerced , controlled , directed , offered reward or threatened with punishment to get him to put forth adequate effort towards the achievement of organisation objectives . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ How come you let him have so much scrump ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sometimes an extremely simple technique is sufficient — for example Coveney ( 1986 ) reports that he obtained enough data to allow him to study quantitatively different ways of expressing future time in the French verb , simply by asking speakers about their plans for the future . |
| 18 | I heard him saying there one day er where 's , what no fry today mother ? |
| 19 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He also uses mercury in large quantities , and as secretary for the environment , one might have expected him to seek less damaging alternatives . |
| 22 | And Merrill did n't want to think of Luke and that hollow , unsatisfied feeling that had followed when she 'd seen him drive away last night . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | I saw him play here last year for Southend and to be fair he absolutely ripped er the Leicester defence apart . |
| 25 | You can imagine this has meant him working very long hours , one of the other problems he has is he suffers from diabetes . |
| 26 | Genette 's relational strategy leads him to construct purely abstract combinations without any real existence in literature . |
| 27 | There was a brief recording of an interview with him conducted earlier that morning in front of the Kemp Town nick . |
| 28 | The sultan , however , refused to avail himself of this " Vienna Note " , on the grounds that it required him to make too many concessions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ One of my pictures showed him hugging both little girls in the pool . |