Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean he worked hard , he worked he worked six nights a week . |
| 32 | He urged them to compare any sum they had in mind with damages that might be awarded for physical injuries that lasted a lifetime . |
| 33 | He urged everyone to report suspicious behaviour . |
| 34 | The spokesman said a number of mortar bombs had been found in the area in the past and he urged anyone finding similar items to contact the police immediately . |
| 35 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 36 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 37 | Her first step was to leave the kitchen exactly as he left it ; if he thought she had any intention of clearing his mess up behind him , then Luther was very much mistaken . |
| 38 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 39 | He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions . |
| 40 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 41 | He had also developed such affection for his owner , and had become so possessive of her , that if he saw her stroking another horse , he would roar with rage and throw himself sideways against the nearest fence , cutting and scraping his skin so that it bled . |
| 42 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 43 | Asked once what he would do if he knew he had six months to live , he replied : ‘ I 'd type faster . ’ |
| 44 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 45 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |
| 46 | Everywhere he went he smelled fresh blood , and was exhilarated . |
| 47 | He very rarely helped round the house , because he felt we had different jobs . |
| 48 | She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said . |
| 49 | He felt he needed professional help , and entered into analysis that would continue for many years to come . |
| 50 | He felt he needed more brandy , but the glass was nearly empty and the bottle was in the kitchen . |
| 51 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 52 | He pictured himself smashing both fists down in the middle of the kitchen table , or taking a china jug off the shelf and hurling it across the room . |
| 53 | Palestinians with relatives still inside Israel could pay two-week visits — many , like Damiani 's wife , have gone wistfully to look from a distance at the homes they once bought and lived in — and the same Israeli spokesman who referred to the Palestinian Arabs as ‘ a community of refugees ’ said that he had himself assisted 40,000 Palestinians to rejoin their families and become Israeli citizens . |
| 54 | last year 's individual with us he had I think he had he had five A levels of which four were grade A and one was greed B grade B. |
| 55 | He said she wrote better letters than any woman he knew — ‘ only it is a different letter each time you read it . ’ |
| 56 | Yeah , he said I got a thousand pound well I 'll ring around , he said I got a thousand o off my , I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said I thought bloody hell , how much cost costing him ! |
| 57 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 58 | He said I said one thing he 's more rebellious . |
| 59 | He says er , yeah he said I did some onion , and then , I got some of them , you know |
| 60 | He said I remembered last night he said if I was in bed I was gon na get wet . |