Example sentences of "[vb past] he [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like animals , they are great levellers — not remotely impressed by a string of titles — and he always found he could build up a good rapport with them . |
| 2 | The 37-year-old former England winger vowed he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract , saying : Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Anfield where they crashed 5-0 on Saturday . |
| 3 | He just said he 'd met his solicitor friend who reckoned he could find out the details of the will . |
| 4 | And he decided he 'd try down the mines . |
| 5 | Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees . |
| 6 | The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been . |
| 7 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 8 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 9 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 10 | I said his bed looked gorgeous and added , just in passing , that I hoped he 'd put up a wooden fence , as a metal one would n't do much for either garden . |
| 11 | The head said he would chase up the documents . |
| 12 | so erm , yesterday he had dinner round Joyce 's , he said he 'll come round a bit early and |
| 13 | He said he 'd run over a dog . |
| 14 | ‘ He said he 'd pick up a spare part for me today , and he has n't , which is why we fell out earlier and why I 'm on my way now to pick it up myself . |