Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | play with him now , he plays better than you . |
| 2 | He sleeps there as well . |
| 3 | Conversely , where the tenant is likely to give discounts to certain customers ( eg those who pay by credit card , or employees ) , or where he is likely to have sales or special offers , his advisers should attempt to ensure that it is the amount he receives rather than the full retail price which is to be included in the calculation of turnover . |
| 4 | Faldo will want to defend his Volvo Masters title if he wins here because he could then still clinch the European Order of Merit . |
| 5 | When I inform him that I read recently how the estimable gentleman had found the Lord and was living in a Salvation Army hostel in Grimsby , he wonders aloud whether the vodka and orange was not partly to blame . |
| 6 | For 20 years it has been an offence for anyone to drive a motor vehicle if he has more than 80mg of alcohol in ever 100ml of blood . |
| 7 | He has more than £50m wrapped up in the concern , via his 35% share stake , and needs to protect it . |
| 8 | He has all but given up hard physical work on his farm . |
| 9 | Or just making sure he has enough when he retires ? |
| 10 | For the purpose of the story , the author has invented a peak — the Versücherin , or Temptress — of the same notoriety and ferocity as the Eiger , and which he places vaguely where the Eiger should be . |
| 11 | He needs more than one victory to win confidence in a town that has never much loved him ; and he can not afford even one more tiny slip if he is not to convince Washington that Mr Perot 's cruel judgment of his talents was right . |
| 12 | With respect to the clinical aspects of the police surgeon 's duties , there is no reason to suspect that the medical practitioner in the UK who serves as a police surgeon would in any way be adversely biased against any patient for whom he cares merely because that person is in police custody , whether he has been injured or become ill during enforced loss of liberty , and however such conditions have been brought about . |
| 13 | I 'm not going to do what he wants even if I do fancy you . |
| 14 | Cos she was something one night , well said yeah that she wants more than , he wants more than two . |
| 15 | ‘ A good assistant studies her boss , almost to the extent of developing psychic powers to indicate what he wants almost before he himself knows . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't know why , yeah and I think he feels as though you , he says well if you decorate it right you can blend it in with the wallpaper |
| 17 | He says well if you want to pack it in love |
| 18 | I says I know , you have n't been to see your team here , he says right once you 've been to Wembley the second time 's never as good it 's just that |
| 19 | He says even though his company as been operating in Spain for the past 10 years , it has found it difficult to establish a market there . |
| 20 | He is polite and very careful about what he says so as not to offend anyone . |
| 21 | He arrives just before she leaves . |
| 22 | Barlow lost his place to big-money signing Neil Pointon — the man he replaces today because of suspension . |
| 23 | He smiles broadly as he describes his nomination for the Best Actor award alongside Nick Nolte for Princes of Tides , as ‘ wonderful , fabulous and an honour . |
| 24 | He grins defiantly as Eva sweeps in through the door . |
| 25 | The legislation is aimed principally at those who present or direct plays rather than at the person who actually performs them ; the latter commits an offence only if without reasonable excuse he performs otherwise than in accordance with the director 's instructions . |
| 26 | He asks rhetorically if there has been ‘ a deliberate conspiracy … to keep adolescents … in an inferior social and economic position ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ The way she died , ’ he repeats twice as we talk of Julie 's murder . |
| 28 | Enormously swollen parotid especially on the left side ; sensitive to the least touch or pressure which causes severe pain , he shrinks away when approached ; can scarcely swallow , throat sore internally ; face red and swollen ; eyes glassy and wild . |
| 29 | The economic casualties of capitalist society in America he explains away as ‘ the legacy of a pre-liberal past ’ , and appears to make no connection between Western prosperity and the victim economies of the third world , still regrettably ‘ mired in history ’ . |
| 30 | We have already seen that someone with a voidable title can nevertheless transfer to an innocent purchaser a perfect title , provided he does so before his title is avoided . |