Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powers that exist to enable him to carry out this task are expressly preserved by the Act , and it is essential to consider their scope in some detail . |
| 2 | He forecast Mr Davies would never stand as candidate , ‘ because if the Labour Party allows him to go forward this seat will actually be won by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell him to come back this afternoon , or tomorrow — or next week … or something . |
| 4 | There are photographs of him taken on this and other trips : Eliot smiling sleepily at the camera , wearing a white cap and sunglasses , smoking a cigar and wearing a pink shirt and blue pullover . |
| 5 | Sometimes he had to admit , he wished they would just leave him alone and let him live out this petty , pointless . |
| 6 | He has an excellent background in support , not involved in in the running but continuous interest and support and for him to take on this challenge shows a particular kind of commitment to the work of the Save The Children Fund and we 're very grateful to him for taking it on and I sincerely hope that he will enjoy the experience , especially after meeting all of you today . |
| 7 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ I have written to Mr Lang urging him to take up this opportunity as a matter of urgency . |
| 8 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but it seems unlikely he got out this way . |
| 9 | he got out this little diary he 's got and he was going |
| 10 | Yes , as soon as he got off this hill . |
| 11 | And so whilst Ruth and Naomi are resting and waiting back home Boaz is acting , and he sought out this man , he 's determined now to see that Ruth and Naomi receive all that is there 's by right . |
| 12 | There was a time when he owned only this great mausoleum , and that piece of derelict land at the bottom of Shorrock Hill . |
| 13 | His wife 's a little sad today because he phoned here this morning and she 's a little upset , she 'd like to go home and be with him , but she 's happy that he 's safe |
| 14 | Sketchy jumping had let down Country Member on a number of occasions last season but he fenced soundly this time , quickening well between the last two to take command . |
| 15 | Sometimes he helped along this impression of participation by opening his mouth and shovelling his chin forward until someone interrupted him . |
| 16 | When we move in here , we get this guy come along to look at it , he say well this machine the er the Germans erm they 've really the pump is th is really easy to go , and so I can change your pump for you but l in your washing machine washing machine . |
| 17 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 18 | He stands down this summer looking tired and weary after 20 years in office running a metropolis of ten million people which has a world-wide reputation for its crime , its gangs , its murders , its drugs , its violence , its riots , its burning streets . |
| 19 | And he finishes off this poem with a description of what he 's now writing . |
| 20 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 21 | Well he came upstairs this morning , got on the bed and he went flop ! |
| 22 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 23 | yeah , and he wants to , he came home this morning and he said , he must of been thinking about it , and he said well we could emulsion the walls , he said erm , why do n't we do an apricot white , I says well that 's peach , I said the |
| 24 | ‘ He came back this morning but his journey was long . |
| 25 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 26 | Anyway , at the luncheon concerned he adopted precisely this cautious attitude and the conversation was as sluggish as it is possible to imagine . |
| 27 | ‘ Because he turned down this one offer , I do n't think that means he 's turned down the fight . ’ |
| 28 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
| 29 | When that did n't work he cooked up this present plan … ’ |
| 30 | He takes over this month from Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , who has held the post for two years . |