Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather thought he 'd let him stew for a while ; with the murder investigation on , he could n't get far — or he 'd be a fool to try , and Peckham was no fool . |
| 2 | One of his main interests was Italian art , but he rather felt he 'd like to keep that for himself , not muck it up with money and degrees . |
| 3 | As he slowly revolved he observed all points of the compass with eyes wide in wonder . |
| 4 | His voice was croaked and hoarse and his shocked stare came to rest on David as if he instinctively knew he was a doctor . |
| 5 | Dustin refused , not only because he had not seen the very different Warner , which the director had , but he justifiably felt he had to find his own direction , even if he had to make a number of detours on the way . |
| 6 | But having put him in , he rarely consulted him on general policy issues and gave hint little role even in industrial disputes , which were still the traditional concern of the Board of Trade . |
| 7 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 8 | If she enquired , he merely said he was going walking and he did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 9 | Did you say anything to the effect that Lawrence was being harboured at the flat at or did he merely say he was concerned for the safety of the occupier ? |
| 10 | He obviously thought he was being funny , but he was n't . |
| 11 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 12 | Innocent " postulated " Mauger , i.e. using his plenitude of power , he personally nominated him as bishop , dispensing him from his impediment . |
| 13 | He only knew him by his codeword , Seabird . |
| 14 | Does it matter whether he really died in a burning building or whether he only thinks he did ? |
| 15 | He only thinks he can beat you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He only said he 'd buy me a Pepsi . |
| 17 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that he did n't murder that other apprentice — that he only said he did , to frighten you ? ’ |
| 18 | He only wished he could grow taller and tougher and learn not to twitch and stammer with nervousness , that he could stop biting his nails and scratching his head so that his father would no longer hate him . |
| 19 | He only wished he 'd managed to discover more . |
| 20 | He only wished he knew why . |
| 21 | After being passed from one civil servant to another , an embarrassed underling finally admitted ‘ he only wished he knew ’ confessing ‘ the trouble is , we have no control over it up here ; it 's all being done down in London . ’ |
| 22 | Sometimes Nick understood what Mister Johnny said and sometimes he only pretended he did , to annoy Carrie , but they were always happy together . |
| 23 | The sun warmed his face , and he suddenly knew he felt different . |
| 24 | He suddenly realised he had newer thought of the possible need to tell lies about why he was there . |
| 25 | And it was one of our viewers who , after watching the programme , provided the crucial breakthrough … he suddenly realised he was a workmate of the killer . |
| 26 | He suddenly felt he was facing impossible odds . |
| 27 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 28 | ‘ Like everything else Bernard does , he suddenly decided he needed a large Welsh farmhouse TODAY and so they bought Rhydoldog , ’ a friend recalls . |
| 29 | If Fiver 's horrors had kept him above ground all night in the rain , oblivious of cold and prowling elil , then clearly it was not going to he easy to talk him out of them . |
| 30 | I think he just figured he would n't do it — he 's in this big rock band and would n't think of doing it , although I think at the time Phil would have ! |