Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 2 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 3 | One day when I saw him in the village , he said , ‘ I hear I 've got a son , Ellen , whose name 's Linton ! |
| 4 | I was window-shopping across the road at Tower Records ( good selection , but top price ) when I saw him in the reflection . |
| 5 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 7 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 8 | The man 's cheek is cut from where I caught him with the chain . |
| 9 | ‘ We also want to know exactly how Garland spent his time from Saturday afternoon when his father died to last night when somebody shot him on the wharf . |
| 10 | Jimmy last met the Queen in 1979 when she presented him with the OBE. |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't ! ’ groaned Tim when she teased him with the label . |
| 12 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |