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Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He found he did n't really need drugs anyway .
2	If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub .
3	She threw away the explanation , as if she knew he did n't really need it .
4	Owen thought he had n't better mention Monte Carlo .
5	Anna thought he did not much notice the country , earth , growing things ; but then he had not observed city things much , either .
6	Er he said or he 's in a in a in a little trouble today for allowing two men who had sex of thirteen to go free erm a policeman told the judge that the thirteen year old was more like Mandy Smith than the proverbial school girl with pigtails but she was nevertheless thirteen and the judge said he had better not say she was no angel or the national press would have a hundred field days with him .
7	Merseytravel finance director John Wilkinson said he did not now expect another toll increase to be even considered for another 12 months .
8	Tonight he said he did n't even know the case was coming up .
9	He said he did n't half sound good did n't it , he said !
10	Later when he was hungry , he ate three of them in a row , washed down with bottles of beer which he said he did n't much care for .
11	Four days later , after the front-page splash headlines , intense team meetings and streams of trans-Tasman phone calls from ACB headquarters , Border said he did n't really mean to give the impression he would ditch the team .
12	He said he said he did n't really get knocked over .
13	He said he did n't really know ; it was all so bloody complicated , all he knew for sure was there were two types , aggressive and non-aggressive ; one was curable and one was n't and he — thank God — had the one that was .