Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 'E gives me enough embarrassment as it is by what 'e gets up to .
2 You should n't need no 'elp , but if 'e gives yer any lip , just call me . ’
3 'E makes isself vulnerable .
4 ‘ I jus ' take everyfing to 'im an' give 'im all those sheets wiv me totals on , an' 'e works it all out .
5 This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair .
6 ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that as many as 100 women could have been abused by him using his evil methods , ’ one detective told TODAY .
7 One detective said : ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that during his career as many as a hundred women could have been abused by him using his evil methods .
8 If only she could tell him how she longed for him to carry her off , but would n't that make him think her wanton ?
9 The threat of another war only made it more urgent for him to preserve his symbolic status , so that he could be the French people 's supreme recourse should catastrophe strike once again .
10 From this elaborate rationalisation , Simon Peter derives a new impetus , a new inspiration which enables him to continue his preaching and — according to traditional accounts — to go bravely to his martyrdom .
11 But it is hoped that in doing so , it will also help him to continue his untiring work for the Third World and enrich the lives of those poor people , particularly in Africa .
12 Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death .
13 She watched him seeing it all , feeling it all , assimilating his surroundings with no fidget or fluster .
14 He said look you can have these expensive antibiotics , they were intensive ones , said look you know I do n't want him to lose his bloody foot just give me some antibiotic !
15 I understand that has not been invited to speak to the Committee yet but perhaps you might consider this at the time of him producing his annual report next April .
16 ‘ I want to show him all the beautiful things trees , flowers and birds but most of all I want him to see his big sister , Katie . ’
17 But perhaps she ought to have made sure she told him to see his own doctor as soon as he got home ?
18 It probably wo n't be long , before Kenan 's nagging John to take him to see his favourite football team .
19 It probably wo n't be long , before Kenan 's nagging John to take him to see his favourite football team .
20 It was his birthday last week and I bought him got him those slippers and they were too big so I 'll get something else instead .
21 His search for a style of living which would enable him to cultivate his contemplative gifts led him to equate , perhaps sometimes confuse , an interior state with the external mode of achieving it .
22 ‘ Get the good word to him if you so please , ’ he said amiably , ‘ and let him make himself scarce .
23 Joe Lydon 's impressive form at full-back , combined with an ability to play anywhere in the three-quarters , sees him make his third tour , while the man for whom he has deputised in recent weeks , Steve Hampson , goes on his first tour .
24 I was trying desperately to be unselfish , to let him make his own decision , to be himself .
25 I mean I do n't want him to wear them all the time
26 Major Gregg Donahue ( Marshall Thompson ) takes a Vietnamese guide to help him locate his younger brother , a doctor who is being held captive by the Viet Cong at an old French fort .
27 Lotus boss Colin Chapman wanted Clark to compete in the Deutschland Trophae Formula Two race at the Hockenheim circuit , set among the pine forests of Heidelberg , while Ford wanted him to drive their new 3-litre prototype in the BOAC 500-mile international sports car race at Brands Hatch .
28 His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before .
29 But them I have seen , and they do say that this third man was called back into the church by one of the brothers , at the end of the evening , for some last purpose , after which the brother came out with him to thank them all , and bid them goodnight .
30 Originally a resident of Celtic Crescent , he had found that even with the occupancy of two adjoining houses there it was becoming impossible for him to accommodate his growing family along with the near and distant relations from Dublin and England who availed of his hospitality in a constant procession .
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