Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Student prejudice kept the KGB off the list , which made Trent mad or made him laugh , depending on the day of the week . |
| 2 | Maybe the murderer knew nothing about the ransom , and had followed Newley or met him by chance at the gazebo . |
| 3 | Balcha now had no alternative but to surrender to Ras Tafari who , with characteristic magnanimity , spared his life ; as to whether he ordered Balcha to enter a monastery or banished him to his estates in the Gurage country , accounts differ . |
| 4 | Davide , after returning from America , had lost his bump of locality for his native place ; when the plan showed a turning one way , he missed it , or found he wanted to walk back where he had come from , or go in another direction altogether . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't do it ! ’ she had to tell her , and , when her sister 's look suddenly became hostile , ‘ I 'm sure if you wrote to Mr Gajdusek , or phoned him — or I could do it for you , ’ she volunteered hastily , not wanting to be bad friends with her , now of all times . |
| 6 | Or pretended he did . |
| 7 | Claudia Arbuthnot was never cross with him or punished him for anything . |
| 8 | Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison . |
| 9 | Sometimes the violent power of the Spirit is seen in almost physical terms , as when the Spirit of the Lord entered into Ezekiel and set him on his feet , or lifted him up , or brought him out into the valley ( Ezek. 2:2 , 3:12 , 37:1 ) . |
| 10 | Once a patient is sedated or anaesthetized he is completely unable to care for himself and he is dependent upon the theatre team to ensure his safety . |
| 11 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 12 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 13 | The expectations on him to perform as a wit at the Painters ' Table further drained his energy and if feeling jaded or bored he drank a lot . |
| 14 | If she had sobbed or fainted or begged him , he would probably have given way . |
| 15 | If Lear was unhappy working on the Birds of Europe , Gould is unlikely to have been aware of it , or paid him much notice . |
| 16 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 17 | What difference could it possibly make if she told him she loved or hated him ? |
| 18 | When he was sure that there was no chance of being disturbed or observed he undid the flap at the top of the bag and reached inside . |
| 19 | He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels . |
| 20 | Catherine and he still spent time together , when he was not working in the fields , but he no longer expressed his fondness for her in words , and he looked angry if she touched or kissed him . |
| 21 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 22 | Two left the country , but one did n't , so the K.K.K. ‘ finished business with him ’ , or killed him . |
| 23 | She had n't seen or heard him approach . |
| 24 | The people in the room were all members of Burun 's family , or served him . |
| 25 | Suppose that the father had later authorised the creditor to sue for the balance of the debt — or required him to do so as trustee ( see Vaughan Williams L.J. ) ? |
| 26 | Or delivered him to a house in that vicinity ? |
| 27 | After the first turn it 's down to luck , the Fanatic could go anywhere , but the chances are you 'll either block the enemy or hit him hard for at least one more turn . |
| 28 | Again , if a dog-owner deliberately sets his dog on a peaceable citizen he is guilty of assault and battery in the ordinary way just as if he had flung a stone or hit him with a cudgel . |
| 29 | Like the rest of us , he knew , or thought he knew , that in the 18th century ‘ the riot was probably a more effective curb on the government ’ than either the Lords or the House of Commons — ‘ England 's strongest countervailing force ’ . |
| 30 | First of all , he was answering ( or thought he was answering ) an appeal for help and support against the Turks from the Byzantine emperor — the Christian west should sustain the Christian east . |