Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He only found out he had few months to live ! |
| 2 | He told how he saw 2 cars going up the road and had a strong feeling there would be an accident . |
| 3 | Yellow Wolf told how he found one tipi containing two women shot dead , one still clasping her newborn baby with its head smashed as by a gun breech or boot heel . |
| 4 | Then News at Ten told how he found 11-year-old Matthew Davies stuck up to his waist in peat on the Brecon Beacons in Wales . |
| 5 | THE only civilian witness to the events surrounding the deaths of two teenage joyriders in Northern Ireland claimed yesterday he saw one soldier attack another . |
| 6 | During the seven months he spent there he wrote two songs , Non m'ama più and Lamento d'amore , which he had difficulty in publishing at the time , but which later became popular . |
| 7 | Judge John Prosser heard how he floored rival skipper Howard Sully with a punch . |
| 8 | The 6ft 4ins striker was ‘ sentenced ’ to watch films of football 's Mr Nice Guy after a court heard how he broke another player 's jaw . |
| 9 | As the flames died down he felt cold air on his face . |
| 10 | Jacob was still not the daughter she had set her heart on , but even though he was a male child he was , at least , physically recognisable as her offspring , and as he grew up he displayed artistic tendencies of a kind which she was sure could have flowered in her had she been given the chance . |
| 11 | Erm and er and that Audrey or Aubrey and and nobody knew well he ran that bar . |
| 12 | His host had darted across the room presumably to bring him a drink and as he looked around he saw other doors , other lights — so this spectacle which did not shock him nor dismay him but which he did not wish to be a part of , might not be the only play . |
| 13 | Why did n't he do any features ? |
| 14 | Did n't he recognize that trade , the trade union movement had a role to play er in that , in , on that page and to the , to the credit of , of the local press , they had responded and so we are now asked to put forward the views of the trade union movement , something I think which local trades councils should be doing , should be the role of local trades councils to do that effectively . |
| 15 | Why did n't he know most things by intuition — and by listening to the other animals talking ? |
| 16 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 17 | Did n't he live next door ? ’ |
| 18 | I spoke to Michael at Adel and asked if he remembered how he felt that day forty years ago . |
| 19 | Wolfgang Roller , chairman of Dresdner Bank , said yesterday he expected long-term rates to fall by nearly two points and inflation to average 4 p.c. as the German economy recovers . |
| 20 | As they travelled along he used one pair for reading , one pair for looking out the window and the other for glancing around the carriage . |
| 21 | As she studied him closely over her coffee cup she wondered why he said those things , then decided he could no more help it than he could help having three portions of everything . |
| 22 | I never under stood why he had such fits of fury because normally he was the kindest and most considerate of men . |