Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect he timed the whole thing with a stopwatch , ’ said Greg . |
| 2 | I thought he felt the same about me ; perhaps he did in the beginning . |
| 3 | Obviously , I think he made the right decision . ’ |
| 4 | yes and everybody not too happy as you can probably imagine erm Peter erm while we were talking to Paul Simpson , in fact Brian Horton was holding his press conference and I think he said the same as everybody else ; ‘ Bolder the opposition goalkeeper had an inspired game , but really United had the chances and the possession , and really everything to kill Charlton off long before half time and really put no pressure on themselves in the second half . ’ |
| 5 | It all went according to plan for her and I think he expected the same for me . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , but I think he felt the peacekeeping mission was very worthwhile . ’ |
| 7 | I think he impressed the Inter Milan coach as well when they played did n't he ? |
| 8 | As I said to Kay it 's Terry that does all , he gets the money in , he pays all the bills , Muriel brings him the bills , I said he does all that apart from the fact I said he spent the whole day yesterday , the whole morning yesterday here clearing this , oh she said I did as well , erm you know help , I said what you , but as well as clearing |
| 9 | ‘ No , it is n't Matthew , although I pray he made the right decision . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You mean he played the bloody organ all night ? ’ |
| 11 | Until she said in front of the Rembrandt , ‘ Do n't you think he got the teeniest bit bored halfway through — I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel . |
| 12 | That 's what you want he said the thick stuff . |
| 13 | Little Les Phillips just said in the dressing room , you ca n't get near him , he 's so explosive over five , ten yards , you know he played the one two bumpers into the ah , it 's a fantastic goal . |
| 14 | She knew he had the proverbial wife and two kids at Camberley . |
| 15 | And just as surely she knew he wanted the same thing . |
| 16 | When she demurred he said the other possibility was that Holly had tipped them off . |
| 17 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 18 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 19 | He says he understood the new model was to be portable , and to be used by surrounding hospitals — and says he feels fundraisers have been misled . |
| 20 | He says he joined the Labour Party in 1977 , seven years after he began work with the forerunner to the present local authority . |
| 21 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 22 | The senator paused to light his first Havana of the day and as he got it going he studied the matted vegetation of the riverbank through its smoke . |
| 23 | When he returned he joined the local carpenters ' union , and in 1861 he persuaded his Sheffield union to become part of the newly established Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners ( ASCJ ) . |
| 24 | It seems he gave the fledgling architect his head . |
| 25 | But when he talked he looked the same as he had always done ; eager , intent , screwing up his boneless nose , gesturing with broad , stubby-fingered hands . |
| 26 | He thought he had the upper hand while she was trapped here , and he was right — it made her feel awkward and uneasy , put her at a disadvantage . |
| 27 | I asked whether he thought he had the same difficulties as his father : |
| 28 | When he turned his head it vanished , although he thought he heard the faintest of noises that might have been made by claws scrabbling on stone . |
| 29 | He thought he glimpsed the slight gleam of light on a man 's belt , somewhere towards the bottom of the vegetable patch . |
| 30 | Jack froze , not knowing what he should do , and when he looked at Steve beside him , he knew he felt the same . |