Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh he drives me mad sometimes ! |
| 2 | Naturally , he spoils them rotten . |
| 3 | Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise . |
| 4 | If the X question states that a ‘ Minister may intervene if he thinks it necessary or desirable , ’ then the only way in which the courts can maintain control is to require the minister to provide some evidence to justify his action . |
| 5 | Will he , if he thinks it necessary , arrange for a debate on the matter ? |
| 6 | Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise . |
| 7 | If he thinks it advisable that the complainant should ask for an investigation by either of those other Commissioners he may inform him of the steps necessary to do so . |
| 8 | If he believes a thing harmful , he must not support it ; if he thinks it unjust he must denounce it . |
| 9 | Regulations provide that if local planning authorities are minded to approve a proposal , but judge that it involves a material departure from the provisions of the development plan , they are required to refer the matter to the Secretary of State for him to decide whether he thinks it fit to call in the matter for his own decision . |
| 10 | He holds me close . |
| 11 | He holds me close . |
| 12 | He produces the little black pistol he keeps stuffed in the waistband of his trousers , and he grips it snug in his hand . |
| 13 | But he has it easy . |
| 14 | Well he , what he has it permed does he then ? |
| 15 | He wants them small and blonde but also to know their mullet from a mallet . |
| 16 | He wants me living-but-dead . |
| 17 | He wants me dead , of course , but there have been other targets in the past , like Thatcher and high-street butchers . |
| 18 | ‘ And he wants you dead . ’ |
| 19 | He says you crafty pair of sods he says , Sarah knew all about that did n't she ? |
| 20 | He says you stupid cunt I was out with you most of the evening . |
| 21 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 22 | There was caviare and smoked salmon and cold chicken ( he buys them ready-cooked somewhere ) — all things he knows I like — and a dozen other things he knows I like , the cunning brute . |
| 23 | This , he reckons , has never been more true than in the Unix software arena and he reckons it likely that just one big company will seize control of the Unix world , and its subsequent dominance of the market will result in software prices going up . |
| 24 | ‘ Make sure he gets it right . ’ |
| 25 | Either he gets it right or we all go up the Swanee . ’ |
| 26 | Likewise , if you wish your youngster to persist with a task after he has learned to do it , you should arrange things so that he is no longer rewarded every time he gets it right ( 'continuous reinforcement' is applicable , as we saw , only when the individual is acquiring a skill ) but only on the odd occasion ( a schedule called ‘ intermittent reinforcement ’ ) . |
| 27 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 28 | well if he gets it right |
| 29 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 30 | Only he gets it free . ’ |