Example sentences of "[vb past] he the " in BNC.

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1 His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event .
2 In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " .
3 For bed a roadside ditch in the summer , a barn or hay-loft in the winter was all he sought , while for food and drink a farmer 's wife never begrudged him the plate of bread and potatoes washed down by a mug of tay .
4 Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him .
5 She drew him the length of her body , and he glided into her as she kissed his mouth .
6 Hoskyns found him the opening — sub-warden of Lincoln Theological College .
7 A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure .
8 When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth .
9 I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking
10 He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month .
11 He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon .
12 But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century !
13 I took Sir Ralph to the top of the stairs into the North Bastion tower but the passageway was so narrow Colebrooke helped him the rest of the way . ’
14 Last year Andres Gomez beat him the final ; this time it was Courier and everyone remembers things about him .
15 They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared .
16 Sir Anthony Meyer 's self-destructive challenge to the leadership of Margaret Thatcher cost him the support of his constituency party early in 1990 , but , like Sir Ian Gilmour , he was merely symptomatic of a cast of mind common to many of the baronetcy .
17 He is still smarting after Tuesday 's controversial umpire call , which cost him the race against Kanza , Koch 's other boat .
18 It cost him the tournament .
19 Thanks to proper medical care , the infection was cured , but he needed a convalescence of four weeks under medical guidance , a time which cost him the part of Timmy Cleary that he craved .
20 It cost him the land he had so longed to enter .
21 His only regret yesterday was to fail from seven feet at the last , where his solitary bogey cost him the chance to stand alongside Payne , the 1992 Rookie of the Year , who had a best-of-the-day 66 .
22 Not long ago , a piece in the New York Times Magazine pronounced him the Ali of old , just about terminally perky .
23 My father overheard and , without consulting me or waiting to hear my reply , forbade him the house .
24 Terry Bickers was one of the people that answered , I played him the stuff , and he loved it , so … ’
25 His father , foreman of the Headington Quarry morris ‘ side ’ for fifteen years , played him the morris tunes in the cradle , and later taught him the dances .
26 When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer .
27 He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show .
28 I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort .
29 ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing .
30 Erika told him the reason , expecting a sneering laugh , but the Lout was impressed .
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