Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he went up there now , with Bienvida trailing behind him , from an obscure feeling that he ought to show Jarvis this offer was appreciated . |
| 2 | ‘ He may make life unpleasant for the rest of us , but he wo n't smash the magic cup before he 's drunk from it good and deep . |
| 3 | If the user does not have DC OPERATIONS privilege , he may use option 2.5.0 , Change Ownership of DC , to pass the DC to a user who does have this privilege . |
| 4 | London agreed that he should offer AFPFL improved terms of entry into the Council . |
| 5 | Old Mr Pascall saw no reason why he should make life easy for a gossiping female and made her hold on , while he sold two ballpoint pens and a packet of rubber bands . |
| 6 | If the patent is a UK patent and Newco acquires it from a non-UK-resident person , he must deduct 25% withholding tax from the capital sum consideration . |
| 7 | By this , he must mean people such as the BBC economics editor , Peter Jay , with his record as chief assistant for Robert Maxwell , who was a fireman in the different , though equally old-fashioned , sense of one who takes pleasure in firing people . |
| 8 | Mm He 'll kill Bruno next week . |
| 9 | He had a fair idea of what Heydrich had been up to in Aalborg , and he hoped he might get confirmation this way . |
| 10 | With a little food inside him he felt he might find composition easier . |
| 11 | The Houses of Parliament were ‘ a disgrace to the country ’ and he could bring Palmerston another delegation supporting a ‘ Grecian building ’ . |
| 12 | With the flying shuttle he could earn £1. 2s 6d ( £1.12½p ) and dispense with the services of a journeyman . |
| 13 | By the time Roirbak had reached his workbench and had sat down to ponder over whether he could pay Jahsaxa enough compensation to drop Crevecoeur and why he should want to do that for anyone anyway , Mellissa the receptionist fluted her chimes over his commset . |
| 14 | For a moment , he wished he could tell Elinor these things . |
| 15 | Karrimor 's project development engineer demonstrated that he could do shoulder high kicks just as easily wearing with its 20kg load as without . |
| 16 | Without this kind of analytical framework , respecting the complex levels of mediation involved and their relative autonomy , Elvis becomes simply the plaything of naked political forces ( rebellious/manipulative ) ; and the fact that the young rock 'n' roller sang ballads from the start , that the older Hollywood star could still sing rock 'n' roll songs and was still respected by rock 'n' roll fans , that his ‘ blues ’ were ‘ romantic ’ ( a kind of fantasy ) , his ballads often ‘ realistic ’ ( given flesh ) , or that he could make boogification ironic — all this is inexplicable . |
| 17 | Relaxing before the fire in the warm room , he felt he could view Cleo Sinister with unprecedented clarity . |
| 18 | He told himself he could take life easy : |
| 19 | Before he could take action new Chaos forces arrived in the Elf heartland . |
| 20 | Perhaps he could drive Gina insane with a little more work . |
| 21 | ‘ Every day my husband would leave work wondering if he 'd find Thomas alive . ’ |
| 22 | He 'd have shat this delirium out of his system , and these events — Jude , the chase , his near rape at the hands of the assassin — would be a tale to tell Klein and Clem and Taylor when he got back to London . |
| 23 | Never even crossed my mind that Hurley would carry on like nothing had happened — that he 'd keep Eurame open and go on using the pipeline . |
| 24 | He used to give Albert some pocket money and he was satisfied , but me mother was n't . |
| 25 | Oh yeah you had Sunday off , there was a the boss Mr was a Congregationalist , he used to attend Road Congregational Church . |
| 26 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 27 | Rufus delayed his decision , but there was never any chance that he would recognize Clement III . |
| 28 | CHART newcomer John Mathews has a £100 bet that he 'll top the charts — after his clairvoyant mum predicted he would reach No. 1 . |
| 29 | Basically , the plot was to get me to bribe Murrin so he would give evidence helpful to me in my libel case against the Sunday Times . |
| 30 | Commenting on Prost 's alleged statement that he would give Mansell half his salary if the Englishman would stay at Williams , Mansell said : ‘ Prost is full of s*** , The guy just tells so many porky pies . ’ |