Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E went out at four o'clock an' 'e was all nervy . |
| 2 | ‘ What I 'd like would be for him to go back to that first wife of his . ’ |
| 3 | The necessity to provide enough material to fill 20 or so pages of Tinsley 's Magazine each month exerted its own pressure , forcing him to fall back on recent autobiographical and architectural experiences , but appropriately when the novel appeared in book-form in May 1873 to favourable reviews it was the first to bear his name on the title-page . |
| 4 | ‘ See him glance round like that ? |
| 5 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 6 | Er , asking if there 's anything we co , look at him walking about with that |
| 7 | What pressures his wife brought to bear on him to come around to this decision I am not sure . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |
| 9 | If s if he does n't why not and would , would you please tell us what possessed him to come out with such a , a remarkable statement and I think this goes to the what we 're talking about this morning . |
| 10 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 11 | Trevor has often wondered whether this made him grow up with silly fussy habits which irritated the girls with whom he would like to have been involved . |
| 12 | Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter . |
| 13 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 14 | Oh , please do n't let him be a thief , she prayed ; please do n't let him run off with all the woman 's stock . |
| 15 | Yes — sad , was n't it , him going off like that . |
| 16 | Someone was singularly careless to allow him to walk out of that hospital in Holland . ’ |
| 17 | It caused him to look back in some compunction , in case he had lied to discover what he wanted to know ; but he could find no lies . |
| 18 | He taught her brother how to roll a cigarette , and she remembered him doubling up with delighted laughter as the boy coughed and spluttered on his first smoke . |
| 19 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 20 | I would n't want to be a defender and see him coming on with 20 minutes left after being run ragged by Ian Rush , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll meet him coming back at this time of day . ’ |
| 22 | As her eyes scanned the yard , she caught sight of him coming out of one of the stables . |
| 23 | Charles Frederick was the odd one out in this respect — his feet were far too itchy to allow him to settle down into any sort of domesticity , and he would prove the fact in a dramatic enough way by sailing off around the world as soon as the opportunity presented itself . |
| 24 | With and without the capital S. You 've heard him go on about those selective hierarchies ? ’ |
| 25 | Oh , I did n't see him go up at all . |
| 26 | ‘ You ca n't let him go off like that , ’ hissed Rayleen loudly . |
| 27 | His telegraph then went on " This afternoon General Robertson , Chief Administrative Officer AFHQ requested us to concur in a draft telegram to CG British Eighth Army authorising him to turn over 28,000 Cossacks ( see our 797 of October 16 , 1944 Midnight ) , including women and children to Marshal Tolbukhin , and further instructing him to turn over to Yugoslav Partisans a large number of dissident Yugoslav troops with exception of Chetniks . " |
| 28 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 29 | Glastonbury was certainly upset , although that did n't stop him nodding off on several occasions ; Fagg was enraged — the term ‘ bloody fellow ’ came up frequently ; Fishbane was considered ; the Commander spluttered a lot and Chatterton said very little except to draw on his memory of some committee problem that had arisen in 1964 . |
| 30 | Having located the spot , which had to be served by a nearby airstrip , they rang Anthony Marangos in Paris and told him to call back in half an hour with the largest houses closest to the spot . |