Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 2 | 'E always liked the drink . ‘ |
| 3 | Rory was late for their appointment , and when he arrived , Holdfast told him dourly to close the door and join him at the biggest table . |
| 4 | As the first law of kung fu is defend , then attack , the student who has gained knowledge of the basic strikes , has next to be trained in parries and blocking manoeuvres to enable him effectively to stop a punch without being hit himself . |
| 5 | Now , two days before he sailed for New York , Mary smuggled him in to see the child . |
| 6 | He knew exactly why the Curator had asked him in to see the eagle — a most unusual thing for someone as unimportant as him to be called in personally in this way . |
| 7 | ‘ Very cross that Anthony wo n't let him in to share the nursing , ’ said Comfort drily . |
| 8 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 9 | Sgt Alan Jones made his defiant vow as the man who gunned him down began a 15-year sentence . |
| 10 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 11 | ‘ You see , it did n't take him long to find the riff-raff , ’ Moran said . |
| 12 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 13 | It did n't take him long to master the basics of what British Steel was all about and he has been just as versatile in acquiring an understanding of a diverse range of other businesses , from computers and oil drilling to knitwear machines . |
| 14 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 15 | determination under a contract between two parties owes a duty of care to both those parties , because both will rely on him and him alone to get the determination right , if for no other reason than that they will be bound by it . |
| 16 | In vain the poor jackal howled and shrieked to the tiger to stop , but the noise behind him only frightened the coward more . |
| 17 | As might have been expected from his career , he outstayed his welcome and had to be forced to retire from the post — a position previously rewarded with a peerage , but which for him only merited a knighthood . |
| 18 | Nobody there , but he could n't be more than a few yards away and Forester 's fingers would n't obey him enough to get the buckles properly secured . |
| 19 | Poyntz had married the illegitimate daughter of earl Rivers and was clearly suspect as a result , although the choice of Berkeley , a kinsman , to replace him perhaps implies a wish not to antagonize Poyntz 's associates . |
| 20 | Poyntz had married the illegitimate daughter of earl Rivers and was clearly suspect as a result , although the choice of Berkeley , a kinsman , to replace him perhaps implies a wish not to antagonize Poyntz 's associates . |
| 21 | Some time later , as she lay quietly enfolded in his arms , she felt him gently brushing the damp hair from her forehead . |
| 22 | They sent him along to vacuum the carpets , but he wound up with his very own theatre to practice in . |
| 23 | But by all means if you 've got something bring it along and that would give us a starter for five I 'm keen to see us also trying to once we 've got this going going down the S P Q road ah had lunch with the other day at I mean it was I mean she was n't meeting him necessarily wearing a B A I E hat of not um and I think she I think she touched on that though while while while they were lunching. erm I put down progress because I was thinking of the Pilgrims Progress at the time |
| 24 | Captain 's sent him ashore to take the headrope . " |
| 25 | ‘ Bacci , tell him not to leave the hotel . ’ |
| 26 | Told him not to do the garden until I 've finished . |
| 27 | You could trust him not to take the mickey , or to turn round and bite your head off . |
| 28 | We managed to persuade him not to perform the whole work during the wedding ceremony . |
| 29 | Jack 's father had asked him not to mention the accident in front of the younger children . |
| 30 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |