Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that Both would ever admit to bowling a straight one the ball he produced to finally get rid of was a gem and it turned the match away from India . |
| 2 | You see , so he has to just plug it into the wall . |
| 3 | By now they are probably nerves of iron because , you know , you have to co-exist with an army like that he has to really take it fairly easy because they can be quite rude and , you know , shove you around get whatever they want and very harmful methods . |
| 4 | Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’ |
| 5 | He seemed to just FIT IN . ’ |
| 6 | And yet there were times , fleeting but strangely precious times , when he seemed to momentarily forget the war of nerves raging between them . |
| 7 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 8 | Er er it seems we had a very good er er quartermaster , he seemed to always turn up er he seemed to always turn up with something . |
| 9 | Er er it seems we had a very good er er quartermaster , he seemed to always turn up er he seemed to always turn up with something . |
| 10 | ‘ How does it follow from what you 've said that you came to be — ’ He paused and his lips compressed in a cruelly thin line before he seemed to deliberately force away the tension , saying simply , ‘ To be with my brother ? ’ |
| 11 | He was thoughtful and circumspect about what others , as teachers , did ; about what he experienced and felt inside and then , as though guided by some inner light , he seemed to intuitively arrive at simple , fundamental truths . |
| 12 | He vowed to continuously challenge the Government . |
| 13 | Do n't touch me ! ’ she added as he began to carefully straighten her leg and probe the flesh at the top of her boot . |
| 14 | There was a long , emotionally charged silence as they stared at one another , before he began to roughly shrug the jacket from his broad shoulders . |
| 15 | They treated him like one of them , complimenting him on his astuteness , until he began to genuinely believe that it was he who had selected Node Check , that he was an expert on account trading before he 'd learned anything about the stock market in general . |
| 16 | ‘ You have to be washed and changed , ’ she told him , when he began to noisily protest , ‘ and then — ’ she indicated Vitor ‘ — you can go in your papá 's motor car . ’ |
| 17 | Why did he have to even think ! |
| 18 | Left back Ray Daniel 's cross was expertly controlled by Alan McCloughlin and he fed Walsh , who had all the time he needed to coolly slot in the ball . |
| 19 | Why had he refused to even begin until she was in France ? |
| 20 | I found out later it was the weekend that he decided to definitely make a run for the presidency . |
| 21 | What action is he taking to specifically gain er activities that will ensure there will be apprenticeship schools . |
| 22 | If it was sad that in England in 1963 his form finally drifted away , he did at least give his last fine Test innings , an unbeaten 74 , to the Manchester crowd , a happy choice of venue in view of his connection with Radcliffe and the university . |
| 23 | He did n't take a positivistic line and argue that the sentence ‘ God exists ’ is literally meaningless , but he did at least think that it was , expressed a proposition which no reasonable person would accept . |
| 24 | I do n't imagine that he felt any easier immediately I applied the hot blankets , but suggestion is a powerful weapon in the armoury of the doctor , and he did at least manage a smile . |
| 25 | He did at least take two more wickets himself , emerging as a five-wicket demon in the match , the standard of England 's slip catching being restored at the hands of Hick and Atherton . |
| 26 | This was a peripatetic Diogenes of the masses though , and fined for obstruction he had to constantly seek new pitches : ‘ His barrel was sandwiched between a fasting girl and a flea circus . |
| 27 | Due to such severe deprivation of mental stimulation , he had to continually wear an iron mask to prevent him from tearing strips off his own sides with his teeth . |
| 28 | Everything seems to have gone wrong for poor old Gooch since his marriage broke up , culminating in that bizarre dismissal on Monday , but he does at least have one big advantage over the other members of the trio . |
| 29 | For some time the only sound in the room was that of her choking sobs and his comforting murmur as he continued to tenderly stroke her hair . |
| 30 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |