Example sentences of "he [verb] [indef pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he realised something terrible was going to happen , but he never thought that they would actually set light to the car . |
| 2 | Of Merovech he records nothing other than his supposed descent from Chlodio and that he was the father of Childeric . |
| 3 | His table was lavish , his welcome open and generous , they could hardly have fallen into richer pastures after all these vexations ; and yet Hugh continued throughout the meal curiously alert , as though he expected something unforeseen to happen at any moment , and divert events into some wild course at a tangent , just when Prior Robert , at least , was beginning to believe his troubles over . |
| 4 | He represents something exciting to this community , two fingers to the authorities . |
| 5 | Only in John 's Gospel does he make one curious and profoundly interesting statement . |
| 6 | When I was a little lad I had this mongrel puppy ; he got summat wrong wi ’ him , and the vet wanted to put him down . |
| 7 | If England decide on changes for the second Test at Lords the bowling department is the one most likely to suffer , with DeFreitas ' name top of the list unless he produces something special in front of Gooch . |
| 8 | He denied any guns had been involved in the raid although Mr Beaton had said earlier in the trial he had been told he would be shot if he tried anything stupid . |
| 9 | He reached in with both hands , only to shrink back in horror when he encountered something cold and clammy beneath his hand . |
| 10 | That was how he built something extra into the programme . ’ |
| 11 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 12 | Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons . |
| 13 | As he expected , he found nothing incriminating , Spencer would be far too careful for that . |
| 14 | Before long he will be so out of touch with technical matters that he has nothing new to contribute . |
| 15 | ‘ As long as it amuses him , and he has nothing better to do . |
| 16 | Already in 1926 ( The New Republic , 30 June ) Tate was obliged — faced with the aridity in diction and imagery of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ — to concede that ‘ It is possible that he has nothing more to say in poetry ’ . |
| 17 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 18 | If the person indicates that he has nothing more to say the officer shall without delay cease to question him about that offence . … |
| 19 | When a guy like me , she says , wakes with bad dreams in the night , he has something worrying at his mind . |
| 20 | I shall show Dr Meredith up and notify you if he has anything noteworthy to say . ’ |
| 21 | ( Though I do have a friend — Bunny — who always insists on a female doctor or nurse if he has anything wrong of a private nature . |
| 22 | So he , he needs something new to do . |
| 23 | He shouted something unintelligible and ordered his dog to go and get me — which it did , giving me a painful nip on the back of the calf . |
| 24 | Yet he wants nothing better than to be a woman — ; |
| 25 | At first he wants nothing more than a quick lay with a pretty maid , then wants her to be his mistress , then is able to admit to himself that he loves her , but the idea of marriage across the social barrier is impossible for him . |
| 26 | He loves nothing more than slaving over a hot work bench to extract the last 0.5bhp needed to win his rider a world title , but as Yamaha 's GP technical co-ordinator last year he did n't get that chance . |
| 27 | Will he bring home to Ministers on the continent the fact that the headage basis would prove devastating for hill and upland farmers in the United Kingdom and will he do everything possible to make those Ministers see our point of view ? |
| 28 | He gets cynical , he says something shocking . |
| 29 | I mean sometimes you expect him to laugh and he does n't laugh like he says something funny and I say something funny back to him , but he does n't laugh . |
| 30 | He goes , he si he goes well , well he says anything different , it 's completely to Kathleen |