Example sentences of "he [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He goes none of those northeners !
2 has n't been , he 's been even more desperate than to get a goal , but he got one on twenty one .
3 The rule devised was that if a man 's goods could be valued at £1 , but less than £2 , or alternatively if he owned nothing but received wages of £1 a year , he should pay 4d .
4 With a pinch of ingenuity , he built one from Thermolite blocks rendered with cement and sand .
5 When he came across the bodies in the middle of Gayton village , he found one with broken legs , but still alive .
6 He found one in three of the girls and one in five of the boys wanted to be thinner .
7 What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities .
8 He found plenty of thickish sticks and picked up far more than he needed .
9 But the fact was that when it came to practical jokes , he regarded anybody as fair game , from the most fleeting acquaintance to the dearest friend .
10 ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house .
11 He let someone into that church , a thief , another derelict , a psychopath , and that person killed him .
12 Erm he has nothing at all because he 's never been married to you .
13 As you get older , I think you learn that an afternoon playing with your daughter ( he has one by each marriage ) , or three hours reading , feeds the soul in a more real way than being on TV . ’
14 Plus he has plenty of other work on the way : Bodies , Rest And Motion , an existential romantic comedy for the twentysomething generation in which he plays opposite Bridget Fonda ; and the low-budget Jumpin' At The Boneyard , in which he plays a Bronx street kid trying to straighten out his crackhead brother .
15 He has plenty of good form over three miles and less and the way he progressed last season suggests he could develop into a Gold Cup horse .
16 For the individual participant in a chatting relationship , this does not constitute a difficulty , because he has plenty of previous personal and local experience to call upon .
17 On their account I excuse the absence in him of a warm heart , a vivid imagination , and a grand style : for he has none of those great gifts .
18 Everybody at his house for lunch is a corporate travel buyer , he has lots of these lunches .
19 When will he do something about that deplorable record ?
20 Well why does n't , ca n't he do something about that or does he
21 Why would he do something like that ?
22 How can he do something like this to me ? ’
23 ‘ Did he do anything with these ?
24 His favourite radio show was Ryuichi Sakamoto 's — ‘ He played everything from Indian music to Erik Satie ’ — so he sent Sakamoto a tape , who broadcast it twice , and ‘ we became a good relationship ’ .
25 At common law , if the court found that the plaintiff was partially to blame for his injuries , he received nothing at all .
26 Not that he 'd anything against that .
27 ‘ Has he said anything at all ? ’
28 Acting in conjunction with the king so far as the details of the meeting were concerned , he prepared everything with great care .
29 ‘ He looks better , it 's true , but some days he eats nothing at all , and other days he eats just like a healthy boy .
30 And I said , and I said it 's every spare time he gets something like that .
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