Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood up while we watched and I realized he had magnificent horns , far longer than any I had yet seen . |
| 2 | So his got one , I noticed he has two books the other day . |
| 3 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 4 | He still spent every holiday with them , but I felt he needed more independence and so did they . |
| 5 | I knew he had previous convictions . |
| 6 | Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks . |
| 7 | But despite his hard work I thought he lacked true happiness and peace of mind . |
| 8 | Up to then I thought he had dark hair . |
| 9 | Well it 's roughly about five pound and , one pound and I thought he said one pound forty a pint . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought he showed great courage in agreeing to be in what was after all an undergraduate revue . ’ |
| 11 | Cos I thought he did advanced French last year . |
| 12 | I said he 'd better things to do than roam about up there . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When he brought in wee pillbox hats , I suggested he add some graphics on top . ’ |
| 14 | Bowden gave a blood sample — because the breathalyser machine was defective — which showed he had 203 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood . |
| 15 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 16 | I had a vague recollection somebody said he had this pet shop at Blagden or som not Blagden er |
| 17 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 18 | She thought he welcomed some time alone . |
| 19 | Well Les says er when we got out the car and you went he says bloody hell that uses some juice do n't it ? |
| 20 | Sorry , he 's just someone I went out with who thought he had exclusive rights to my body . ’ |
| 21 | Sales director David Nelsey added : ‘ She felt he had total disrespect for women . ’ |
| 22 | And I think it was Kipling who said he had six serving maids Who , What , Where , Why , When and How . |
| 23 | ‘ At the same time , the saddest call I ever had was from a boy who said he had marvellous parents who gave him everything . |
| 24 | Last night she said he experienced several difficulties when he arrived in England . |
| 25 | Now talking bout the Cosmo , I 'll come back to that again because there was a lad there and he was in the Independent Labour Party , and er his name was Eric and er this pamphlet will tell you said he answered more questions when he spoke , and at nineteen he was he spoke , he answered more questions than any other speaker had ever answered at the Cosmo you know he got a record for answering questions . |
| 26 | So that 's why we have n't , he wanted twenty , the home secretary wanted twenty up and running before Christmas , he did n't say which Christmas , but we presumed he meant last Christmas , and we said no , we 'll do it properly and get it started up right |
| 27 | As we had referred to Turkey and the fact that Margaret and I had met there , and as we knew he took great interest in genuine peasant culture , we showed him some Turkish embroidery and in particular two typical Turkish saddle-bags , which we had transformed into cushions . |
| 28 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
| 29 | While they ate he made polite conversation , avoiding with care any of the deeper , more important issues that needed to be talked about and resolved . |
| 30 | As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take . |