Example sentences of "he [verb] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all of a piece : his own conversation was unhurried and controlled and , when he spoke , he made few if any gestures . |
| 2 | As time went by , he made fewer and fewer corrections . |
| 3 | Looking at it again on Match of the Day I think even he realised this cos he did n't protest that much . |
| 4 | ‘ Did n't he want more than just sailing ? ’ |
| 5 | She had already noticed that when he walked he limped more than a little , favouring his left leg , but his face had taken a greater hurt . |
| 6 | But , he said yesterday , the love and understanding of a 26-year-old woman he met less than a month ago has convinced him he should remain living life as a man . |
| 7 | I 'm not sure he understands all that it involves . |
| 8 | Six years later he transferred to the Alma where he was so heavily into Methodism that he led those that had congregated in the bar to church . |
| 9 | He got more than he bargained for |
| 10 | He got more than he bargained for . ’ |
| 11 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
| 12 | That means Clarke will miss the Greenalls Lancashire Cup final in a fortnight , assuming Wigan beat Oldham in tomorrow 's semi-final and he receives more than a one-match ban . |
| 13 | He read this and showed it to his wife and on the following day asked questions . |
| 14 | He looks more and more |
| 15 | What did surprise him a little , and which argued a political maturity that even sensitive Western observers were sometimes inclined to overlook , was that , in three days of systematic canvassing of Libyan opinion , he encountered little or no personal hostility . |
| 16 | He found little but evidence of a funeral pyre , and his impression was that a person of importance was cremated here and his ashes carried home to Rome . |
| 17 | Another was his ripostes to people whom he found less than entertaining — or important . |
| 18 | Ian know he owes that or what ? |
| 19 | Even so , in his mid-sixties and preparing to retire , he created more than a literary stir with the publication of a series of poems in vers libre on contemporary themes ( Fascism , war , pacifism ) which , in 1944 , were published in a volume entitled Y Dwymyn ( The Fever ) ( 2nd edn. 1972 ) . |
| 20 | So he has little or no time to release the glider , or to recover from the dive unless the upset occurs above about 500 feet , and then only if the rope breaks or the glider releases . |
| 21 | The only clients for whom he has little or no sympathy are psychopaths ( ‘ a real bugbear ’ ) : he believes they waste volunteers ' time and can not be helped . |
| 22 | A much less demanding condition is one in which the saboteur is attempting to damage a plant about which he has little or no technical knowledge . |
| 23 | The next characteristic of a switching-off organization is that there are far too many people and far too many layers so that each employee feels that he has little or no headroom . |
| 24 | He has little or no social life and has severe problems in evolving any kind of friendship . ’ |
| 25 | He has those as well . |
| 26 | He has more than his share of enemies . |
| 27 | The invitations to foreign races started coming in after he ran ‘ about 162 miles ’ in a 24-race in Chorley , and Zarei has made the most of them , often running ultra races consecutively and by doing so he has more than proved a point about his approach to running . |
| 28 | He concentrates every second on the race because he has more than enough to concentrate on . |
| 29 | The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem . |
| 30 | Alain is a very powerful man — like his father — but unlike his father he has more than his share of kindness . |