Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do it , he had to have more privacy than his room allowed , and he had tentatively approached Captain Dawson , who was home on leave and was painting the porch , for permission to put a table and chair in the garage , so that he could work there . |
| 2 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 3 | The French had not disappeared , and he had not imagined them.They were in Frasnes . |
| 4 | In March 1991 , a bank as unpaid mortgagee had taken possession of the debtor 's business premises and he had not had access to them since that date . |
| 5 | ‘ We had informed the ACU of our plans and were told there was no objection ’ , Ernie told me , ‘ but then we received news that Mark would not be accepted for the Superteen because he did n't have a restricted licence and he had also scored points in the previous year 's British championship . |
| 6 | He had himself — however ambiguously — received investiture with his archbishopric from the king , and he had certainly consecrated bishops who had been thus invested . |
| 7 | What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict , this same general had been discreetly retired , and he had then entered business , dealing in shipments from Southern Africa . |
| 8 | He was , he was the one Vincent the erm cross-dresser had actually had some operations and become nearly Vera and he had actually banged Connie on the head with an ashtray cos Connie was selling his story and sold some personal family photos |
| 9 | and his wife , it was her second marriage , her first one had been to the doctor and he had actually examined paedophilia backed off , basically said well she did n't , she could n't get a conviction but it was quite clear that he had the motive and he 'd had the opportunity because Connie died from the fire which Harvey Jones had set cos he found out |
| 10 | Charles Henstock , whose belief in an after-life was absolute , had never been able to persuade his old friend to share his convictions , and he had once told Donald , after an amicable exchange of views on the subject , that he considered the doctor to be the finest unbeliever he had been privileged to meet . |
| 11 | Only her father had done that and he had obviously welcomed Alain Lemarchand just as he had rejected her . |
| 12 | and I got back home , and somebody must have told him where we lived , he got my address from somewhere and he came up to see Irene and I . |
| 13 | The last Prime Minister to give an undertaking of that kind was Harold Wilson in the 1960s — and he went on to deliver bust without boom . |
| 14 | The embalming procedures were explained and illustrated and he went on to show examples of vascular preservation and plastination of body parts and sections . |
| 15 | An industrial tribunal later ruled Mr Siddle , 54 , had been unfairly dismissed and he went on to run pubs in Sunderland and Sedgefield . |
| 16 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 17 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 18 | No , he erm , I say with videos that they , they send a video over an Australian thing , this chap 's the other two and one of them had a camera and he went aboard to test pilot it and he took the all around the place round er having flown six five minutes and he paid he tried to things that had gone wrong , whatever it was and erm , he , he , he 's . |
| 19 | But having h done that and having gone off his toe , he the wardrobe was n't in front of him so much as it was down there by now , and he 'd still got hold of it you see , so because of the momentum , of going that way down two steps and one further one he shot forward and went right over the edge of the wardrobe . |
| 20 | The birds were n't anything he knew and he 'd never seen toadstools like that with spots on . |
| 21 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 22 | Burun wondered if anyone else had noticed it , and he spoke again to divert Sipotai 's attention . |
| 23 | His ‘ deepest motive was the drive for personal power ’ , and he worked tirelessly to concentrate control of the party into his own hands . |
| 24 | But now he was a naturalised Kiwi , and he set about breaking Tufnell 's rhythm , as he had done in making a century when the left-armer made his county debut at Worcester six years earlier . |
| 25 | But he had no precise idea where Adam was and he did not think Adam 's travel agent ( a personal friend of the young Verne-Smiths ) would tell him . |
| 26 | A group of trustees were appointed to administer his affairs , and he did not gain control until near his 21st birthday in 1834 . |
| 27 | ‘ These killings started when he broke free ; and he did not escape punishment for working under the Great Criminal , as we did . ’ |
| 28 | His eyes were back on the road and he did not see Madeleine 's mouth turn down in a pout . |
| 29 | And he did not promise government by principle ; a politician to the core , Mr Clinton prefers to work by consensus and compromise . |
| 30 | He knew their value as training for war and he did not fear rebellion . |