Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] he [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A seventeenth-century libertine who wrote excellent satirical verse ( he 's the author of the famous epigram about Charles II : ‘ God bless our good and gracious king/Whose promise none relies on ; /Who never said a foolish thing , /Nor ever did a wise one ’ — one of the reasons I like him so much is that allegedly he recited it extempore to the king ) and some great , great poems about sex . |
| 2 | And so he made it easy for me . |
| 3 | I do n't know who it and apparently he asked him that , are , are any of your men gon na be there and if there are he said , I 'm , I 'm gon na pull out and use all my influence to stop the march and the I R A police said no there would not be any gunmen there so I thought yeah , fucking right , oh yeah that 's easy to say , and then if like the reporter said and , and you believe him and you have the feeble excuse towards a small community he said , you know what 's going on |
| 4 | He keeps touching me and Harried up and once he took us both off into a little room to tell us off and stroked Harriet 's leg . |
| 5 | And then he told him clever , amusing stories about the women that he himself had loved . |
| 6 | And then he blew it all at the last minute with that interference . |
| 7 | And then he left her alone , climbing the wooden stairs to what she would later learn were his own makeshift quarters on the floor above . |
| 8 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 9 | Yeah I know but he did say that even though agents I 'm not giving you this and then he showed me all the things you know to sort of prove that he was doing it . |
| 10 | So he caught them up in his cloak and carried them to the top of the mountain , and there he showed them all the treasures and towns and palaces that were in the world . |
| 11 | And when you think of a man earning about at the most two pounds ten shillings a week , one and sixpence was quite a sizable amount out of it , but eventually he paid it all off . |
| 12 | And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides . |
| 13 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 14 | But today he cut them each two thick slices , beautifully juicy with blood . |
| 15 | Meredith thought she detected a gentler tone creeping into his words , and felt comforted , but then he spoilt it all . |
| 16 | ‘ But then he gave me half an ounce on credit . |