Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 15 | She thought he welcomed some time alone . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Sales director David Nelsey added : ‘ She felt he had total disrespect for women . ’ |
| 18 | Last night she said he experienced several difficulties when he arrived in England . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take . |
| 25 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |
| 26 | It seemed he heard that question again , a thousand years ago and in another world . |
| 27 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 28 | He reckoned he had enough time to see Maidstone , then get down to the pensione and change before making his way back up to the Vomero again . |
| 29 | I mean he worked hard , he worked he worked six nights a week . |
| 30 | He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions . |