Example sentences of "he [verb] [det] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was five years before he made another series , but in 1974 and 1975 he recorded Christmas specials . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly he was livid , and having failed to realise that those who laugh easily do not fear easily , he tried several means of torture to get her to consent . |
| 3 | John Major made a perceptive observation a few days ago when he declared that he found many people to be cross , rather than angry , about the recession . |
| 4 | Mr Gavron cheerfully admits that he has more staff than he needs to handle the currently depressed workload . |
| 5 | He used some statistics about what has been happening to jobs and businesses recently . |
| 6 | This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes . |
| 7 | He says many people in the village have grown up with the noise of the jets . |
| 8 | He says some people have n't got the cover they 've paid for . |
| 9 | He says most people have some qualms . |
| 10 | At an awards ceremony at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1974 he castigated those people ‘ who would like to make polytechnics exactly like universities ’ , and who ignored the fact that the polytechnics had the distinctive feature of not only pursuing knowledge for its own sake , but also treating the acquisition of knowledge as ‘ never far removed from its application ’ — and constructing courses of study accordingly . |
| 11 | He chooses these people carefully and objectively , always with an eye on potential success . |
| 12 | ‘ When he brought in wee pillbox hats , I suggested he add some graphics on top . ’ |
| 13 | Sometimes an extremely simple technique is sufficient — for example Coveney ( 1986 ) reports that he obtained enough data to allow him to study quantitatively different ways of expressing future time in the French verb , simply by asking speakers about their plans for the future . |
| 14 | Moreover , he assesses such people ( in his book The Nightmare , 1985 ) as being ‘ markedly open and defenceless , not having developed the psychological protection most people have … they have thin boundaries ( between conscious and unconscious states ) and let things through . ’ |
| 15 | He cites some statistics from two recent reports to support his argument : |
| 16 | He thanked all staff and customers for their help . |
| 17 | When they found her , on an estate in Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent another £68,000 — snapping up the house next door . |
| 18 | He avoids these people ( who seem to constitute most of the people he knows ! ) and often seeks the company of children instead of adults . |
| 19 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 20 | In mitigation Lawrence Hazell , for Muise , said he committed the offence because he owed some people £110 . |
| 21 | It sounded as if he needed another pair of hands for the trip ahead — which was another reprieve so far as Robbie was concerned . |
| 22 | If he took more staff on and they were say filling up provisions , putting the pies out every day is taking the department forward , it 's an everyday task . |
| 23 | ‘ And he sent this pair of shoes to a London address ? ’ |
| 24 | He feels most people , given the correct materials and tools , can build their own all glass aquarium following his plan . |
| 25 | He saw few people . |
| 26 | Claire says she started climbing with her brothers and Allan says he saw some people climbing when he was youth hostelling and thought that 's the sport for me … |
| 27 | Oh Mark said he saw those people going from there this morning . |
| 28 | He knew many people in the village , almost everyone except the newly arrived and the ones who used the village as a dormitory and who worked in Bath or Chippenham or Swindon , but he knew very few that he could classify as friends . |
| 29 | It was not until 1905 , when Mary Neal asked Sharp if he knew any folk dances suitable for the girls at her Esperance Working Girls ' Club in Cumberland Market , St Pancras , that Sharp remembered Kimber . |
| 30 | He knew these people planned something terrible , although in his ignorance and confusion he had not grasped entirely what . |