Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [verb] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless he has diluted things a bit , and where Evil Dead 2 had an almost meaningless series of gory slapstick routines , Darkman has something approaching a plot . |
| 2 | And the fact he ca n't just accept things , he has to question things . |
| 3 | He has taken things that belong to us . |
| 4 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 5 | If he wants to explain things to me he 'll have to come there to find me . |
| 6 | it 's important he 's feeling he wants to do things . |
| 7 | ‘ He wants to sort things out . ’ |
| 8 | He wants to buy things for me . |
| 9 | He wants to change things — but fairly . |
| 10 | ‘ He wants to keep things calm as much as we do ; he wants the men to wait . |
| 11 | Team worker I really really want to make sure that the whole team as people work together well that everybody 's happy such is the comment , is everybody happy , he wants to make sure that everybody as individuals is getting on well there 's no stresses or pressures through individuals , individual relationships he tries to keep things smooth within the team . |
| 12 | But his beat is often sluggish and lifeless , and when he does move things along he is apt to produce a coarse effect with his punched-out accents ( listen for example to ‘ Cease to beauty ’ or ‘ The flocks shall leave the mountains ’ ) or his aggressively pushy rhythms ( as in ‘ Happy we ’ or ‘ Love sounds th ’ alarm ’ ) . |
| 13 | But somehow he does get things done , and he has , after all , resisted the lure of the west up to a point — ‘ can I say that I could now fill 360 days with western offers and stay somewhere between America , Europe and Japan for an entire year ? ’ — to continue his own reconstruction work at the Maryinsky . |
| 14 | ‘ He does pick things up very quickly , and he is very keen to do it . |
| 15 | And he likes chucking things on the ground . |
| 16 | ‘ He likes to do things yesterday , ’ Ilse said . |
| 17 | ‘ He likes inventing things with handles . ’ |
| 18 | He likes making things out of wood . |
| 19 | What I have said to Neil and Neil is honest but once or twice he 's said things and I 've said , no Neil ! |
| 20 | ‘ And if he 's got things like your class take for granted you jump right on him , say he must have nicked them . |
| 21 | ‘ If he 's got things like your class take for granted , ’ the girl had said , ‘ you say he must have nicked them . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He 's got things to do , ’ said his Mum . |
| 23 | He 's got things to do and people to see . |
| 24 | No , I mean he 's got things that er he 's got er CDs and things in the window but it 's not erm |
| 25 | He 's taken things off the floor and now he 's taken the floor up . |